Gardening Follow

I tend to learn new things by relating something I don't know about to something I do know about. Take growing food, for example, as the something I don't know jack squat about. The knitting, yup -- know something. Sometimes in knitting, there is ripping. Sometimes in growing tomatoes, there is inexplicably a wilted, brown tomato that must be pulled out and dumped. There were four tomatoes. And then there were three. RIP, Early Girl. Sometimes in knitting there is wild, unexpected success from the project for which you had the faintest hopes. Sometimes in growing food, every single beet seed will germinate and grow like the dickens to provide the grower with an unexpected and delicious beet green salad from the thinnings. Sometimes in knitting, things go as planned: the yarn choice, the needle choice, the pattern choice combine to produce the intended result. Sometimes tomatoes actually appear on tomato plants. And sometimes a knitter expects the yarn/needle/pattern to work out, and there is no discernable reason why it doesn't. Sometimes a Big Boy tomato plant will have yellow lower leaves and a less than robust appearance when treated exactly the same as its healthier tomato friends. Knitting and gardening. The same, only different.