Someone on Facebook suggested instead of keeping my tomato halves in an egg carton, I should go ahead and put them into soil. One problem: I didn’t have soil – except the pots I never threw away from trying to grow herbs last spring. (What? Don’t you know at least one person who never throws anything out?)
So, okay, this morning, I took some of the not-too-old,
dried out soil and put it into a plastic take-out tub from Chinese Hot and Sour
Soup (hey, I do reuse a lot of the stuff I hoard…and besides, the container was
only from last Sunday) and loosened it up and remoistened it from the tap. Then
I put the soil back into the container. I did this with only three of the
tomato halves. A good experiment means you have a control and one or more test
groups (I took about a million research classes, whether I wanted to or not, so
I might as well use them), so I put four more tomato halves into a single-serve
soup container with holes on top (another reused object) and covered them with
water. I left the remaining five halves in the egg carton, misted them with
water, and closed the lid.
I also took three garlic cloves and put them into a third
pot of reworked soil to see if they will grow. A little more research
suggested I should put this pot into the fridge for at least 2 months to
force the garlic to grow, assuming the garlic hasn't been treated to
prevent sprouting.
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