MOVE YOUR TOMATOES!

I love the lessons & metaphors that come with gardening.

My first tomatoes are a great one.

It's easy to love a vine-ripe, luscious, juicy red tomato
that's warmed by the sun and fresh off the vine.
CRAVE them, in fact.

But, believe it or not, I've never grown them. Too paranoid.

Up until this year.

I didn't have the right soil in a sunny spot.
I felt like it would be too frustrating -- and painful--
if they didn't produce.

They'd mess up my floral motif (mostly perennials requiring
little or no care) with their careful tending needs.

My neighbors both grew tomatoes and I'd get their occasional
offerings, so why bother.

But this year, I had what seemed like the perfect spot--
heavily amended dirt at the back of the garden, where
nothing else was planted after a new camellia didn't make
it through our very harsh winter.

And so I planted them. Three Better Boy tomatoes. Got directions
from my neighbor, the tomato expert.

About a week later I noticed that they really weren't getting
the proper hours of sun way back there--shaded from the
east by the tall hollies and from the west by the giant magnolia.

And so I started stressing about it. For at least three days.

If I moved them, I'd have to move some flowers around. My
well-entrenched pink perennials, busting loose all over, would
have to relinquish their sunny spot.

What a relief when I finally admitted that it was OKAY to
shift things around.... to make way for bigger fruits with the
changes that I was so tentative to make. Glory, hallelujah!

Why do we do these things to ourselves?
Preventing forward movement and better outcomes
by stubbornly clinging on to "the way it is?"

As one of my sheroes, Susan Jeffers, says,
"Don't protect, correct."

She's right.

If you're ready to move your tomatoes, but
don't exactly know what or how to do it,
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