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Lessons from an amateur urban gardener

1) The CSA is easier.

2) You may be able to make plants grow in the shade on the north side of the house, but you can't make them like it.


I was going to have a big old "LiZ Grew A Tomato!" party, because no matter how pathetic (pretty pathetic) and how small (pretty small) my tomoto was, I did, after all, grow it. So, I picked the tomato, admired it on my windowsill for a few days, and then went to pick up my CSA, which provided me with an abundance of delicious, large, exotic-looking heirloom tomotoes. I put the CSA tomatoes in the tomato-bowl on the table, and put my pathetic home-grown tomato on the top, allowing it to pretend for a moment that it was the tomato-bowl's crowning glory.

Then I had some friends over and we made salsa.

Then ... MORE

It should be said more often

Last Sunday's Epistle belonged on a t-shirt, or an inspirational mug, or one of those really aweosme square greeting cards that says just the right thing in someone else's words, and I mean that with the absolute minimal amount of snark.

I particularly like the bit at the end about "so far as it depends on you, live peacably with all"

In case you missed it, or even if you didn't, it merits reading again:

Romans 12:9-18 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor. Do not lag in zeal, be ardent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who ... MORE

There's a tomato on my tomato!

It may be growing in an icebucket,
staked with a piece of metal I found in my creepy basement,
tied up with neon pink string,
living on a concrete patio
on the sunless side of my house,
but nonetheless there is
in fact
an honest-to-god tomato on my tomato plant! MORE