Surprise!

Today I realized a different variety of tomato was growing amidst one of my Roma plants. Surprise! A "Purple Cherokee" volunteer had tricked me into thinking it was a second stem of the one plant I had buried in my garden. I had been a little bummed that I had planted four tomato plants and all of them were a variety of Roma-sized paste tomatoes. The Purple Cherokee is a dark color--nearly purple throughout, with a splash of dark green at the top. It's a big round tomato, a slice of which fits perfectly on a sandwich or hamburger... I had planted this variety last year and a seed made it's way into our garden via one of a variety of ways--though I suspect it was hiding in some "compost" that I spread in the bed this Spring. My compost is hardly what it should be--I haven't put the right ingredients in the right order and I'm sure it doesn't heat up to the point that it is actively decomposing anything really. Oh well.

I guess it just sows that it's never too late in the growing season to be surprised by something.