And...keep my basil + mint alive can be crossed off my Summer Manifesto. Zac + I went to our local hardware store early in the summer to buy some flowers. My sweet husband picked out this tiny tomato plant and I just sorta laughed at him (optimist=him + pessimist=me as always). I never thought that we would be able to grow a tomato. I'm not sure why, but up to this point I have struggled to keep flowers alive and usually get tired of watering them. Haha. I also failed at growing basil + cilantro last year, but this year I've managed to keep our basil + mint alive. Our tomato plant had a rough start. At one point, we pretty much had given up on it until...it FINALLY had some yellow blooms. It took many yellow blooms later, but we finally started growing a tomato. I was so excited!!! We've had lots of tomato hornworms try to eat our plant, but as long as I keep spraying it with insecticidal soap it seems to help (I just read it helps to plant marigolds nearby...note for next year). A friend also told me to try sprinkling cayenne pepper on the soil which I tried too. We ate our first tomato the other night and it was the best tomato I've ever had ;)
