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Essay Archive - Tomato Fishing
Tomato Fishing
This spring, we bought six itty-bitty tomato plants. Ko-Koi broke one
(she has a fetish for green vegetables), and we managed to save both parts,
giving us seven. We planted the tomatoes in the garden, with rows of
sunflowers, beans and beets, four eggplants, five bell peppers, several
herbs and a peach tree named Packwood (named after creeping under my skirt
once too often). Everything was going along nicely. Then we went on
vacation....
We came back to find a sea of green. Tomatoes covered everything. We
had to transplant two of the eggplants, and we lost the one with the red
and white strip....
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