Co-Op la Maison Verte Plant Sale
On Saturday, which was a beautiful sunny day in Montreal, I went west to the neighbourhood of Notre Dame de Grace to check out the Victoria Day Weekend plant sale. They were selling special heirloom varieties of plants, especially unusual types of tomato, which you can't find at your grocery store.
She did a balancing act for me. Love the body language!
I took home three tomato plants for my back balcony. Left is an Amish Paste, a plum tomato great for sauces. Middle, a Rose Tomato, and right a Cherry Sungold. Transplanted into big pots at the end of the month, and with a bit of basil grown in window planters, these will be beautiful and very tasty this summer.
posted by Jack Ruttan at 1:24 PM
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I was looking at tomato plants myself this weekend, but I have never grown one and don't know the first thing about them or growing them on a balcony. How long until you get to eat your first tomatoes, do you reckon? Please post when you do. And basil. Ah, yes...I need some more herbs for my balcony garden.
Quite a while, I imagine. Maybe July or late June. And there is the tomato's direst enemy to reckon with - the diabolical skwerl.
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