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I’ve been blessed with the magical appearance of dozens of baby tomato plants in my front garden.  Due to my special lazy gardening technique – which involves leaving last year’s crop to die down, including numerous past-their-prime cherry tomatoes – this year’s crop have merrily sprouted and taken over.

Well they had.

But then I put an advert saying : “does anyone want some wild tomato seedlings? I’ve got too many” out via our grand community email network (thanks Joanna).

I’m really into ‘wild’ and I did hesitate before putting out the call, as I enjoyed watching them grow into a haphazard interlocked one piece bush of cherry tomato plants, but eventually, as they thickened I began to realise it might be good to thin them a little and give them a some space.

So the next fun thing was meeting the people who answered my give-away advert.  The opportunists.  They came. They harvested.  They left richer in small leafy plants.  There were three of them.  They each brought with them with an eagerness to dig (well one eagerly made his WWOOFers dig) and great pleasure to have sourced more cherry tomatoes.  Each of them had suffered small scale cherry tomato crop failure.  Each of them were all fifty plus.  I enjoyed meeting them.  We Golden Bay-ites have generally all heard at least vague whispers of each other, it being a community of a mere 4000 people, so it was a matter of putting names to faces. And I enjoyed gaining just a tiny snapshot of where they were at in life.  Fascinating.  Entertaining.  And rather fun.

It went so well that I’m plotting more giveaways.  I’m eyeing up my enormous celery bush … what can people use bitter celery for?  Who  would make the effort for free celery…?  This could be interesting.

Today’s rating: 9/10

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation (as I raise my gorgeous son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000 people).  The Low Down on this Blog.

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