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Gone to seed
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Gone to seed
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| Photo l Michael Persico |
| Last year's withered cherry tomato gone to seed. |
Instead of cleaning up our extensive container vegetable garden in late October like responsible adults, the boyfriend and I went to California for a few weeks. When we returned in November, the whole thing was a windblown, rain-smashed disaster and we were too busy frantically playing catch-up at work to care. Then it snowed, and snowed some more, and the splattered-tomato mess was covered up until the big thaw of March 2010.
We sorted it all out a few weeks ago and have this year's seedlings outside hardening off this very minute. We got a surprise today, when the weeds that had taken root in one of the uncovered containers turned out to be one of last year's withered cherry tomatoes, now aflame with a crop of seedlings (pictured).
From the wild abundance of shoots, it appears every seed left in that wrinkly old fruit burst into life. Gardening method requires snipping all but the strongest seedlings to produce hardy, uncrowded plants, but maybe I'll transfer this guy to his own bucket and just let nature take its course.
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