Because we live in a townhome community, there is no growing vegetables in the ground.  In the early years here, I purposefully bought humungous plant pots and planted large breed tomatoes and green peppers and jalepeno and habenero peppers.  Nowadays I buy those at the farmer’s market and stick to our daylilies, hostas, asian lilies and sedum plan. Ocassionally, however, I “stumble” into something I may or may not give away.

Last year our CSA gave chives in one of our first weeks and we really enjoyed those.  If you know chives, though, it’s probably a good thing it stayed in a plant pot!  This year I found a new way for tomatoes.  A co-worker’s daughter is in robotics (yeay, girls in STEM!) and they were doing a fundraiser.  I bought a ‘Sweet and Neat’ pre-potted tomatoe plant.  It came highly recommended, and wowser! it did not disappoint!  On this little plant I have already had about 70 large cherry tomatoe sized fruits, and now in the past couple weeks it has grown more!  Definitely a good choice this year.