I wanna bring you up to date on our tiny garden out on the preserve that we are not supposed to mess with, (the preserve that is).

A couple of weeks ago Costco offered tomato plants for $11.22 each. Their plants were already large with little tiny tomatoes growing on its vines. We bought two plants.

Of course there are less expensive plants for sale such as at Plublix. They sale theirs at 2 for $6.00. There's also a nursery at Palaski and 9A that has them for sale for 2 for $5.00. Both Publix and the nursery's plants were smaller than the ones at Costco. I suppose the price one pays is a good value or not based on how long one wishes to wait for the tomato plants to grow. We didn't want to wait, plus it was a whim and we didn't know the other pricing at Publix, etc.. We also we wanted to get home and plant them before under the security of darkness so no one would see us meddling on the preserve.

There are also tomato seeds you could use to grow your tomatoes. I notice the online prices range from $2.00 to $4.00 a package. I imagine it'd take awhile for the seeds to grow into the size of plants we have so if one had the forethought to pre-plan then the seeds are probably the way to go.

All the above information is about all I know about farming. It's obviously my wife who has the green thumb. I do have a blister between my thumb and pointer finger due to sawing the roots out of the ground to allow for tomatoes and seeds to be planted.

Seeds - We planted cucumbers and lettuce seeds, guaranteed to grow. The cucumbers have started to germinate (fancy word I learned), and grow. The lettuce I'm not so sure about.

Lastly but not leastly if there is anything you learned from this article, well you'd had to follow the links to find this so I will help you out here, don't refrigerate your tomatoes, ever. Below 55 degrees they lose their flavor and do something (too big a word for me) that is not as savory to your taste buds as fresh and unfrigerated tomatoes.

Oh, did I mention don't refrigerate your tomatoes?