My favorite time of year is now, taking a chance on the winter or am I betting on the Spring. Being a native of California, here in Silicon Valley, I know two things for sure. First, we have only two seasons each year and secondly that they are summer and winter. Spring is a terrific idea, but it is more of the revelation that there is no more winter ahead.
I took the gamble and planted my favorites, tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes. Why you might ask, here it is. No chef can resist the sensual smell of the tomato vine, even before I pick the fruit, I inhale deeply and close my eyes to enjoy. Nothing tastes better than a vine picked ripe tomato, still firm but sun sweet. Sometimes just a dash of sea salt. I enjoy them until the very last one makes it over the finish line. This year it is Sun sugar (cherries), Vintage Red and Scarlet Red.
Cucumbers, thin skinned Armennian varieties, why, because my most favorite sandwich year round is a cucumber sandwich, in the summer, with vine ripened tomatoes. You mush begin to see how my mind works.
Lastly, it is a very childish thing that I plant potatoes, mostly the waxy ones but for me it is like an Easter Egg hunt that I impatiently wait all summer for. It is always a surprize as to what I will find. Yes, I know I grew them and yes I know they are there but I just can't wait for the burried treasure. Not even my daughter, Meagan, has as much fun as I do. My parents have just given up and wait for my visits during their harvest because they are afraid a fourty year old child will cry if I don't get to be the one to pick.
Ok, stay with me... this is day one....in 60 more we will see if we have success. (May 16th)
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