Every year I’ve had a container garden on my balcony. This year, though, I’ve decided to go whole hog (as opposed to the quarter hog of past years) and 1) include tomatoes and different greenery of the mint variety, 2) grow herbs that I’ll let grow throughout the winter and 3) score a garden plot at the Lake. The third upgrade, so to speak, was something of luck – the best park district in the world got a grant to build community gardens, and I totally scored in the lottery. But this post isn’t about that.
Internet, I’d like you to meet Yetta:
Yetta started out life amongst her siblings, lovingly nurtured by the fabulous master gardeners of the Wicker Park Garden Club. She waited and waited, sadly watching as people chose other plants and left her to wait for her Forever Family. And that’s why she got stuck with me. And my cats. Who eat her leaves. And then barf all over my floor. But anyway.
Yetta thrived, despite less-than-solid parenting, and after weeks of stormy weather that broke her arms and cats that ate her leaves, she produced her very first flower. Bless her.
A fine flower, don’t you agree? I was so proud of her little tomatoe-y heart, bragging to all my friends that my Yetta was an Early Girl, blooming away on a cold, windy, shadowy balcony with cats that prowled around her day and night. She’s a fighter.
And then? This morning Yetta once again warmed my heart. Internet, Yetta is having a baby:
I love this! What a great analogy to infertility! I featured your blog today!
I’m kind of a weirdo. I have 2 apple trees and a saskatoon bush in my back yard. Only of course, to discover that I don’t like the variety of apples that grows on them and the saskatoon bush has yet to produce so much as a single serving a year… well, it’s ONLY been there for 8 years so MAYBE someday…
Yetta’s baby matches my tomato baby perfectly. Very nice!
That baby will be DELICIOUS!
I have plant envy. I can grow absolutely nothing. She is beautiful!!!