Old McRobinson had a plant... EIEIOHHHHHH!

Troy is trying his hand at farming. Really, it's just a tomato plant. But he saw them at Costco a few weeks ago and instantly became a container farmer. He waters the plant morning and night, and it has to be a certain cup at a certain time and heaven forbid the kids to to touch it!

He wanted me to get tomato food at Wal-Mart, but then insisted I'd probably get the wrong thing, so he got it himself. it's in a pretty urn on the back patio, it's "caged" to help the vines grow and yes, it has more than a dozen tomatoes.




Tonight was a huge milestone for our little tomato plant... we picked not 1, but 2 tomatoes!!! I think they probably should have stayed on the vine a few days. They're orange, still pretty firm, and small, but Troy couldn't wait. He researches on line, just like with anything, and he decided tonight he needed to pick them.





So they're off the vine, sitting in my kitchen window to ripen up just a bit more.. .and soon we'll taste test Daddy's first crop!





The kids were pretty excited, he did let them help him to put the soil in the urn when he transplanted from the Costco plastic pot... so I guess they're junior farmers as well!