Grow tomatoes, don't be a world-class jerk
Our tomatoes, last week How to grow a tomato How not to be a world-class jerk How to grow a tomato Plan in winter Plant in spring Tend in summer Eat in autumn Of course, it doesn’t actually ever go like that, it goes more like this: The planning in winter is ideal, the mind-image perfection. The planting in spring gets delayed because of climate-change-odd weather. The tending in summer is complicated by other commitments, more enticing than watering, pruning, weeding. The eating — well, that happens, regardless; the culmination of bounty or scarcity, whatever the fruit on the vine. Whether red and sun-ripe or green and brown-paperbag-prayers, the tomatoes find their way to my enjoyment, alimentation, appreciation... inspiring the seeds, already, of next year’s crop. *** How not to be a world-class jerk It’s simple: Be kind. Be nice. Be polite. Don’t be mean; it’s nasty. Don’t tell us who to trade with; that’s our decision, alw...