Gardening

Play group, today, was at The Natural Gardener. We started out all together, but as we explored we seperated and started looking at plants. I bought three varieties of cherry tomato--Juliette grape, patio, and large red--in the hopes that with smaller, more numerous fruit I'll get a better harvest than in past years. I also wanted my mom's fantastic flowerpots with the built-in wells, but of course those are nowhere to be found--so I made my own. I got two 5-gallon buckets and drilled a hole about three inches up from the bottom, dropped three empty yogurt cups into each one, drilled holes in heavy-duty plastic saucers and placed those on top of the yogurt cups, lined the new raised bottom with stretched out coco-grass (hanging-basket liner), then filled with potting soil and tomato plant. It's not as pretty, but it only cost about $11 per pot (includes the plant), and it has a handle. I know the real ones cost at least twice that much, so I'm very pleased with myself. Plus, if my seedlings work out, I will have a lot of very fine tomatoes in my kitchen, this summer.

As an aside--Mom, do you still have the huge tomato cages?