Mama Kat Thursday: Something New I'm Trying
The Mama Kat prompt topic today is: "Write about a time you tried something new." For a gardner, "trying something new" is a life motto. I'm know I'm always have some sort of gardening experiment going on! I currently have two new garden somethings underway: My Suckers in a Pot #1) I'm trying out growing a new tomato plant from a pair of suckers I snipped off my older tomato plants, which haven't really thrived this year. My hope is a fall harvest of tomatoes, perhaps on a happier plant. I saw this idea of growing tomato suckers on Pinterest and thought, "Why not?" Sweet Potato in My Potato Bag #2) I bought a "potato bag," for growing a potato in, on sale from Park Seed earlier this spring that I was determined to use. My efforts to get a red potato to sprout failed. (Though, the buggers sprout often enough when I don't want them to!) Not to be deterred, I put a sweet potato slip in wat...