Resurrected Tomatoes

All my life I have heard that tomatoes require endless watering and feeding and that somehow the level of care would be beyond an aspirational, enthusiastic but lazy and poorly educated gardener such as myself. So, it was with some surprise, two years ago, that I found I was able to succesfully tend a cherry tomato plant and that I had a modest but very satisfying crop of tomatoes well into early autumn. Inspired by that success, last year I purchased a single tomato plant to grow salad tomatoes. Again, with plenty of water, haphazard feeding and very little else, I had homegrown tomatoes to amuse myself. So, this year I decided to go all out and a month ago I planted a packet of tomato seeds in a tray with a raised clear lid and waited in expectation for a flood of seedlings to appear. After two weeks of watching, not a sight nor sound of germination and I had pretty much given up. Convinced that I had killed the seeds with cold water (I knew in my hear and soul that I should have used warm for germination) my spirites were low. But, joy of joys, saved by inertia, the tray remained untended on the windowsill for a further week and lo and behold, they were not dead but sleeping. We have seedlings. Watch this space for updates.