I have always loved to grow things. There’s something about the miracle of flowers returning to my garden year after year that never gets old. And though I have experimented with almost every perennial known to man, I had never tried my hand at vegetables. This year I decided to change that.
Fresh tomatoes. Is there anything more delightful? I dreamed of BLT’s, pots of creamy tomato soup. All made with my own home- grown tomatoes.
Since I have many night visitors to my yard; deer, skunks, raccoons and woodchucks, and they have been known to make a salad bar of my flower beds, I knew that putting in a vegetable garden would be a thankless venture. So I started reading up on porch tomatoes. It made sense, so in early May I bought a few seedlings, a bag of nutrient rich potting soil, and some soil booster. I planted them in pots, set them in a sunny corner of my little porch and hoped for the best.
Two weeks later, they were thriving!

The weather took a rainy turn and I worried my plants would drown, but after another two weeks I had blossoms! They were as beautiful to me as any flower in my garden 🙂

I checked them last night and was downright blissful to discover that the blossoms had become tiny tomatoes!

I’m told it will take another three weeks or so for them to fully grow and ripen. I’m so looking forward to that. Thank You, Lord, for the joy of tomatoes…