It's been a while, but I am back to blogging.
The end of the year is always a bit of a whirlwind for teachers. Open House? Check. Report cards? Check. End of year assessments, field trips, and activities? Check. Cleaning out the classroom. Check, check, check. Now it's official: school's out; summer's in!
Call is kismet. Fate. A good omen for the months ahead. The stars were definitely aligned when I headed outdoors on the first day of summer vacation.
There, I picked my very first warm, ripe, and juicy tomatoes of the season. There's just something special, almost startling, about the eye-popping, fire-engine red of a ripe tomato against the leafy green backdrop of its foliage that screams to be picked and devoured. As I gently placed the tomatoes in my gathered apron-front, I reveled in the thought that I could eat these beauties anytime I wanted to, not just at the 10:50, 1:15, and 2:10 recess breaks. Now that's freedom! Sigh.
I've officially traded in my red checking pens for red tomatoes. Enough of growing young minds for a few months; Time to grow more veggies! If you haven't planted tomatoes yet this season, I promise it's not too late. Continue planting seedlings through the end of August in warm Southern California, and you might just have ripe tomatoes through Thanksgiving! Plant any variety in June, plant Early Girls in July, and plant Glaciers in August (they tolerate cooler temperatures later in the fall). If we have a warm autumn, you'll be seeing red practically until you start decorating for Christmas!
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