Mostly 'Maters - Maybe

<<---- This is Henrietta.

I was feeling pretty spiff yesterday, getting up my first blog post. I messed around with the blog itself some, changed the look, added some stuff... Yep, it was pretty great, and the people who looked at it seemed at least marginally impressed (or acted that way to me, ha ha!). But then as I looked again today I realized that... Dangit! I have to keep doing this!

And then I took a breath and told myself that nope, I do not *have* to do anything else with this ever. No one is making me, I'm not getting a grade (can you tell I used to teach teenagers? Lol). The fact is, I started this because I wanted to. Yep, sure as heck did. Which means the problem wasn't if I was going to write something, but what to write. 

You see, I had (er, have! Really - have!) loads of ideas. Just none of them seemed to want to settle down into a real post (and if you haven't noticed by now, you most likely will, that I can be more than a little verbose. Uh huh, sure can!). 

This is Ruby (and Sophie who would not move) -->>

So I decided, since gardening and growing things has been such a sticking point with me for most of my life that I would start with some plant stuff. So...

These are my upside down tomato plants. Here's the last one, George. Sure, I'll say I named him after the new prince, but really it just came to me after I decided he didn't look like a Bob. Though perhaps this might be the first tomato plant named after royalty? 

Anyway, my point is - not only did I have to look this upside down tomato stuff up on the internet, I had to do it! And do it I did! The point of upside down tomato plants, I'm given to understand, is so you avoid the staking issue (as discussed on my sister's blog, including some awesome tee pees:  http://www.caleyskitchengarden.com/2013/06/tomato-cage-testing-day-1.html )

The plants were a lot smaller when I got them, and you can't really see in the pictures, but there are all kinds of flowers - that means tomatoes are coming, right?  :D  I"ve been remembering to water them and everything, so I'm off to a good start. Now, the bean and squash seeds are still in their little packets, the dirt is unopened, and the peat cups have nothing but air in them. But three thriving tomato plants, named and everything, is a start, right? Right?!