Tomater Growin
The photo is Larkspur coming up from the plants I let go to seed last summer. Carson Borovetz Greenhouses on North Street in Muskogee is open and tomato plants are 3 for a dollar. I bought Jet Star this year because Pete Carson said they were the best seller of all the kinds he grows. I will confess to being a person who likes to know a lot of stuff. A few years ago in the vegetable section of Lowe's I was looking at tomato plants. As is my custom, I asked the women there what kinds of tomato plants they were buying. The shortest of them, a woman who looked like she had planted many gardens in her life, looked up at me and said, "Don't you know nuthin ?" I skipped a breath, blinked and thought of all those years I attended college and sat in offices and what a waste all of it would seem in her eyes. It is easy for me to confess ignorance so I did just that. With that same gruffness, she told me to buy an Arkansas Traveler tomato and to plant it twice as deep as it w...