Amazed.

So COOL.

How do you like them tomatoes ?

This is what a Purple Cherokee tomato looks like. Isn't it pretty ?!?!?  I've never been a fan of tomatoes, supermarket tomatoes are, to me,  tasteless and mushy. I never eat them in a restaurant, I don't like ketchup and I was a teenager before I had red sauce on my spaghetti ...BUT ..... fresh tomatoes from the garden are a different story. These tomatoes mature into big, heavy, meat filled fruit, when at their peak are super full of flavor and firm meat. YUMMIE !!  I ate them everyday, when I spent my month in the garden. Panzanella salad was my staple lunch for weeks. (btw -We had fresh cucumbers too !! )
             (I didn't grow this one, it's just a picture.)



After an idyllic month in paradise, the cats, house plants, tomatoes & I  returned to Bronxville around September 1st to resume ..... life.  I chopped up the best looking tomato I came home with, separated & picked out ALL the seeds, soaked & rinsed them over a 7 day process to remove all the S.L.I.M.E and set them out to dry.  They lived in the cupboard, in an envelope for 8 months.

(They're fuzzy seeds.)

And on Easter Sunday I planted them.

The cutest seedlings EVER !!

 Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012, I planted my seeds.

On Sunday April 15, I woke up to THIS !! One single seedling. It's she the cutest !! 

Wednesday April 18th.  

Friday April 20th. 

k, let me back up a bit.  These are Purple Cherokee Tomatoes, or they will be come August.  

Last year the planets and universe aligned and allowed me the gift of having the month of August 2011 off.  I spent the month on Cape Cod at my parent's home, tending to Mother's vegetable garden and the garden tended to my soul.

So, here's the start. The start of a new beginning. The growth of new life in me and in the dirt.


More on the seeds ... tomorrow.