Last November, in a fit of disgust and frustration, I threw my rotting Halloween pumpkin off my second story veranda into the backyard. Every time I saw it down there busted open, I felt bad about the act and wished the rain and the woodland creatures would relieve me of the reminder. Eventually they did.
Fast forward seven months later, I now have a burgeoning pumpkin patch growing in that space in my yard and Grace and I couldn’t be more excited by the prospect!
Just a reminder to us all:
- Be deliberate about everything you sow, because you will be reminded of its fallout.
- If your unintended sowing springs an unexpected gift, be grateful that a regrettable moment found its way to good, despite you.
best success i ever had here with a tomato plant was with a volunteer that appeared in my backyard last year . . . a huge plant developed and the squirrels and other varmints even let me eat some tomatoes, or partial ones . . . i had removed a huge tree that died . . . taking all the shade from the west sun – shade i so treasured . . and giving me an ugly view . . . – but a tomato plant grew in the detritus . . . before i had the stump out . . . i waited until Christmas . . . when the tree man wanted money, i guess (just when i myself wanted money!), and came back and said he now could be a stump man . . .