This week Mama Kat asked…
Prompt 3.) Do you have a green thumb? Tell us what kind of gardener you are!
I’ve attempted many a summer and style of gardening. I’ve had good success with Square Foot Gardening, but last year I decided to tone down my efforts, protect what I was growing from Jack, and move from 2 raised beds to a few containers housed within a gated section of our yard.
We had some good output of cherry tomatoes, and the girls and I thoroughly enjoyed our much smaller and more manageable “garden”.
At the end of last season, I was very late and very lazy about cleaning out the old plants.
But it turned out that my lack of efforts were rewarding to me in a HUGE way!
One day 6 weeks or so ago, I glanced over to the what I thought were empty pots. I was a bit confused when I saw some pretty substantial green growth. As I walked through the gate and over towards them, I slowly began to realize that all that green growth was actually 10 different tomato plants!
Evidently, the tomatoes that had dropped from last year’s crop that I left sitting for waaaaaay too long, ended up producing brand new tomato plants this year!
How’s that for dumb luck?
This concludes your lesson on: How to Grow Tomatoes the Lazy Way.
That’s a nice surprise. This is definitely a lesson in where being lazy has paid off! You should go off now and enjoy the fruits of your non-labor.
Now that’s what I call a happy accident!
Now that is my kind of gardening… plants that just do it themselves.
And the plants I have slaved over look like hell. I’m gardening your way next year!
Yes… my harvest of tomatoes will be significantly larger due to this very same phenomenon. Now if only bell peppers and cilantro did that!
I love that I’m not alone in my lazy, accidental gardening sort of way.
This is my kind of gardening!
Unfair! Jeff busts his butt for tomatoes and for the love of God we never get any good ones. I guess it doesn’t matter. The kids won’t eat them anyway.
Gotta love nature! ha! Those look delicious! We got some from a local farm yesterday and WOW, SO good!! Enjoy the fruits of your well… non labor.
Tomatoes amaze me. We have started them from seed before (intentionally. They grow so huge and produce so much fruit. All from that bitty spec of a seed. I love them. And yours look great.
I am pretty good at shopping for tomatoes the lazy way. Not that you asked.
How does one lazily shop for tomatoes? A motorized scooter at the farmer’s market??
Way to go!
I saw the title and thought – I’m lazy. I grow tomatoes. This is for me.
The two most essential gems of talent in life: laziness and possession of year-old tomato seeds.
Hee! Love it! And those tomatoes look perfect!
HA! That’s awesome
A case of the accidental green thumb. Your tomatoes look amazing.