It’s all about the Green

Maybe a month or two ago, we were landed with four tomato plants to go into our vegetable plot in the back garden. I say veg plot, what I actually mean is patio slabs dotted about in some gravel that we could sit some plant pots and grow bags on.

Since buying a house and now with a baby on the way, there seems to be no better plan for us to be a touch healthier, more environmentally friendly and more frugal by growing and consuming our own fruit and vegetables, or just tomatoes at this point. One step at a time.

I’ve never been particularly green fingered, other than when I clean the freshly cut grass from the mower. I thought I was ready to take on this challenge of tending to a living thing, pruning it, feeding it. While my girlfriend carries our child, I will tend to my babies. The edible, tasty, delicious babies. There’s another thing to add to my list of time consuming, possibly expensive hobbies.

Having not read up on the process of growing these fruit – yes a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable – and only receive a tiny bit of advice on growing them, I was amazed to see the plants grow and the fruit blossom. The only trouble I’m having is that they are still green. I want red tomatoes. That’s what I’m used to. I’m hoping that they ripen soon and then we can enjoy the fruits of my labour until next season, I guess?