Tomato Gardening
What’s to love about Tomato Gardening?
It all comes down to the five senses.
- Sight
- Sound
- Smell
- Touch
- Taste
I remember when I was growing up watching my grandfather eating tomatoes from his garden.
I remember my grandfather and grandmother planting, tending and harvesting tomatoes from the garden.
I remember him watering, fertilizing, digging up and removing the soil and having a truck load of new soil brought in.
I remember my grandmother sending us down to pick tomatoes and various other vegetables from the garden and having them brought to the kitchen before lunch and dinner.
My grandfather always loved to come in from the outside after working and eating a plate of sliced tomatoes from the garden and sprinkled with sugar.
Tomato gardening has been something that I remember since I was a little kids. It brings back wonderful childhood memories of working in the garden with my grandparents.
Sight
What does the tomato look like? Color, Size and Shape of the tomato, The vine, the leaves the soil. Think about everything that you take in as you look at a tomato
Sound
The sound of the tomato as you pluck it from the vine, Slice it with a knife. The sound as you take a bite of the tomato
Smell
What smells do you associate with a tomato? Starting in the Garden, tilling the soil, putting down the fertilizer, harvesting the tomato.
Cutting and cooking the tomato and finally eating the tomato.
Touch
What do you feel when you pick up the tomato. Is it firm, soft, mushy, bruised? What do you feel when you are inspecting the tomato and/or the vine?
Taste
Finally, the tasted. What does the tomato taste like. Is sweet or sour? Is it juicy or is it dry? What do you taste? What do you personally like when you taste a tomato?
This is what tomato gardening is to me.
