It’s the dead of winter and I can’t walk by a seed rack without a long study of the offerings and making a purchase or two. In reality, I have been planning the next garden since the harvest of the previous fall. I’m going to lighten up on tomatoes this year.
My first large vegetable garden was only three years ago. I have a choir buddy, Dianne, who lives in Redford, which is between Ann Arbor and Detroit. Every Sunday I’d ask her how her weekend was and she’d tell me that she spend hours digging a large silver maple tree stump out of her backyard. After 4 or 5 months of the same report, I convinced her to have someone else remove it and bring in some soil with lots of compost.
I was shocked that she really did it, and we celebrated by planting 52 heirloom tomato plants (I had started them in my basement). We sold what we could at church (to benefit several causes), and the rest we cooked and froze. Dianne had to buy a freezer – I think she’s still eating tomatoes from 2007.
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