You’re not dead until the missus says you are!
Dec 4th, 2007 by Peter
Avid readers of Bring on the Night (me I guess) may recall that my missus is somewhat of a tomato plant genius. The same folks may also remember that I’m not.
This summer I brought 2 tomato plants to my work in hope that they would get a less crowded and sunnier home and maybe even produce some tomatoes. I’m that naive – yes.
Both were named by C and was given the catchy names: “Homer” and of course “Marge”. Have a look at the lovely couple in their prime (before I killed them).
Marge was given some semi-hot leftover water, which she didn’t take to. Homer just slowly became more and more limb until I got C’s permission to give him the coup de grace and bring him home again. Should be the end of that story, right?
Nope Even though I cut Homer’s dangling “body” close to the soil, C somehow managed to bring him back from the death. 1 month after I massacred him, I found him hidden behind a monitor in the window. Still in his original pot. Seems this plant is like a lizards who can re-grow a limb. From the side of the tiny hollow stem a pretty new branch appeared. It has now taken a shine to the sun, and is grown to about 20 cm. I wouldn’t be surprised if he finally spawned some tomatoes after all.
One other tomato plant that C was given back from my parents did exactly that, after some weeks. It still grows new flowers and hereof some pretty neat tomatoes. It’s now December and about 0 degrees outside some days.
I’ll see if I can get a picture of the respawned Homer one of the days.