A Nice, Quiet Post About Tomatoes

Light On Light Through · Aug 28, 2007

I picked up a tall, straggly tomato plant at the local nursery last week. In its better days, the plant would have sold for $45 - the pot still had the sticker with that price. That would have been at least a month or more ago. As it was, the clerk let me have the plant for $7, plus a 20-percent discount.

The plant had about 8 tomatoes and half a dozen yellow flowers when we put it in the back seat of our car. By the time I put it and gingerly staked it in our backyard, it had lost two of its tomatoes and half of its flowers.

The first few days are never kind to a transplant. However good the…