It was a busy day yesterday. Lots of people stopped in and friends came bearing gifts. (all of which were green!) One of my favorite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold, says “all true wealth is biological”. In that sense, I’ve been feeling very wealthy lately. Friends keep giving us plants. The soil is good and there are so many spots that get great light. The bare fence that is the southern boundary of the property is getting filled in with euonymus and big ferns. Both should spread out over the next couple of years. We’ve also discovered that there is a grape under the stairs.

mystery flavored grape
It is very petite and we have no idea what type it is, but Dad agrees that it is definitely a grape. We’ll train it to go up and fill the back of the stairwell. The east bed has had more ferns put under the stairs as well as some hosta. The front of the bed is being used for production. A friend starts black cherry tomatoes from seed and they are amazing! The plants are undifferentiated, so they keep growing and can end up over 16′ long. They set strings of these very tasty black/purple 1”-3” diameter tomatoes and just keep producing until frost. We may drown, but is it even possible to have too many tomatoes?