Baby 'Mater

I'm gonna be a Mommy again.

A cannibal mommy, that is...
The "baby" is a little over 1/2" diameter...

My 'other' gardening project...

This... is a peach tree. Or rather, it *will* be a peach tree. Now I think it's more like a peach dream. Or a peach sprout. At any rate, I live near the Central Valley of California, and the produce that can be grown here is simply amazing. So after eating a particularly delicious peach ~ not last year, but the year before! ~ I saved the pit, stuck it in some dirt, and threw some water on it now and again.

I recently discovered, while surfing the net looking for information on growing peach trees from a seed (as it seemed my little experiment was going to thrive...), that the fruit you get from such a tree is not guaranteed by any estimation to be of the same quality as the peach you got it from. Seems there are other forces at play, such as where it is pollinated from and I-don't-know-what-else. But as we've come this far together ~ my lovely little tree-ette and I ~ *we* shall persevere.

I'm a tree person :-)

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth.

-- Herman Hesse

I got my garden planted...

The amazing... hanging... upside down... Tomato Plant!

We got this gadget a couple years ago at a home and garden show ~ and it works great!!

The place in our yard where a garden could fit is up against a fence, with southern exposure, and it just *bakes* in the summer sun. Plus, we put a shed there a month or so ago...

So ~ if we wanted to have fresh, homegrown tomatoes, we needed to explore other options. And lets face it ~ I'm not much of a gardener.

So this is a perfect compromise ~ give it some water every day and no weeding/ no mud/ no tomato worms... and it's right there on the back porch ~ 5 short steps from the door. How much more convenient could it get??

And it grows great tomatoes, too! :-)