Today I was inspired looking at the weather. I have a little light greenhouse that I bought four or five years to start a vegetable garden. Talk about progress: it took me five years to get my butt moving to plant tomatoes. I bought three or four packets of seeds couple of years to plant, a couple of years ago. Guess what? I got so busy. I fumbled upon the seeds, still in the packet unsealed. Now the packet expired? Do they really expire?
I was little discouraged that I didn’t start on the project. Hey, today is a new day. Keep moving. My friend and I went to the grocery store. We went to the garden center and explained that I was looking to plant tomatoes this year. The nice gardener told me that he planted a tomato plant of his own, last year. He planted purple cherry tomatoes, Indigo Tomatoes, he called them. I didn’t know if I wanted Indigo tomatoes just yet until I got some red tomatoes.
“Tomatoes seedlings or starters?” he asked.
“What is the difference?” I asked.
“Starters, you could say have grown to mini plants and are ready to be potted?”
“Seeds have to be sprouted.”
That meant to me, more time and more gardening skills.
The store carried over 150 varieties.
“I want the ones that will grow in my yard,” I said.
“What do you plan to do with them?” the gardener asked.
“I am not planting them to be a snack. I want the tomatoes to make marinara.”
He mentioned a few, and I took three out of the batch. I bought that and soil. I had a few old pots which I recycled for the tomato plants. My friend and I got the soil and out we went outside to plant.
The first step of progress: Get up. The second step Do (Plant in my case). Just Move on it, whatever it is that you have been trying to make progress on.
All throughout the steps: Do well. Which reminded me, how do I know I where to plant the tomatoes?
Hopefully, I will get some tomatoes this summer.