So last year we planted tomatoes. We bought the plants when they were wee little things and four months later they were great shrivelled vines of nothingness. Our tomato plants grew but n’er a tomato blossomed into full ripeness. We did get one scrawny green tomato but it stayed green for two months (until the dog finally got fed up with our shame and tore it apart).

We decided that the source of our failure has nothing to do with our lack of green thumbs. Nope the reason out tomatoes didn’t grow is loneliness. You see it makes perfect sense. With not other vegetables in the garden our green little tomato was too sad to become a plump juicy red ball of sweetness.

We shall not make the same mistake this year. We are planting: cauliflower, arugula, spinich, and assortment of herbs, and onions. We started the arugula, cauliflower and onions indoors and yesterday I set the onions free.

The intrepid onions were very quickly growing too big for the starter kit. The stringy sprouts of promise were getting hopelessly tangled with the cauliflower and I think we might have found a few strange hybreds if I hadn’t put a stop to things.

So the onions have been transplanted. They’re on their own for the moment but I tell them everyday that if they keep growing big and strong then I will bring them vegetable friends soon. And so I shall, the arugula is starting some strange posturing with the chives.