Flickr is filled with photographs of tiny tomatoes and cucumbers. As gardeners, I don’t think we ever really get over the wonder inspired by that first tiny fruit on the vine.
I present to you a few “firsts” in my garden this season.
The first tomato. This one is an Oxheart in the main vegetable garden. This is probably the most “boring” variety of tomato I have going this year. I have several “volunteer” tomato plants in the garden and I’m looking forward to seeing what type they will be. My guess is Paul Robeson or Persimmon or Costoluto Genovese, since these were the varieties I grew in that bed last year.
The season’s first raspberry. I ate it right away and it did not disappoint. This is the third year we have had this raspberry patch. We got a few canes from Graham’s mum the first year I lived with him in Bowmanville and already the patch is quite large. We have a lot of fruit ripening on these canes, and I plan to eat them in the morning with yogourt and granola for breakfast. If the birds don’t get to them first.
A different kind of “first”. This isn’t the first cabbage in the garden, but among the first I’ve grown. This is the first year I tried growing it. I was inspired last summer when Graham and I were on a bike ride here in Bowmanville and came across some cabbages growing alongside a suburban street, just outside a yard. They looked so lush I just had to try to grow them myself.
