My doctor is a most wonderful person, except that he has this humongous picture perfect lawn stretching to the horizon --more than three acres. He calls it 'preserving his viewscape' or some such!
I have been pleading with him for years to put in a little home orchard, vegetable bed etc., at least in the back three acres of lawn and he is very keen---in theory! So this year, his wife, another busy doctor, suddenly got it into her head to dig up a huge flower bed.
Then, the son, 11 years old, turns out to be a keen gardener, and insisted that he be allowed to plant a few tomatoes! Mind you, first ever in their and his lifetime(s). So hsi little sister, 8, wants her special tomato plot, too, next to her brothers, all in that single monster flower bed of Mom's!
Now it already was late May, and all the heirloom seedlings I raised for friends had gone to their homes. I scrape the bottom, and come up with a Kimberly, Costoluto Fiorentino, Doucet Producer, Aunt Ginny's Purple and St. Pierre, for the boy plus a set of Mexico Midget. For his sister who wants something pretty as well, Red and and Beam's Yellow Pear, and another yellow pear that is a cherry type, i believe.
I have warned them again and again of the vigor of all the vines and the dangers of Miracle-gro. If the patch does not turn out to be an impenetrable mess, it will be interesting to watch the two children's reaction to their first harvest of heirlooms.
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