Ever since my little venture into the frenzied world of Heirloom Tomato enthusiasts, getting my hands on some impressively unusual tomato plants has been a minor obsession of mine. Suddenly my garden will not be complete without some towering vines cascading in lumpy, multicolored, so-delicious-it’s-been-passed-down-through-nine-hardwoking-generations-of-Amish-farmers fruit. The only problem has been figuring out how to make it actually happen.
I’ve found a ton of websites selling heirloom tomato seeds. Often with tantalizing photos and ecstatic copy about how each one of their 400 varieties just happens to be the tastiest, most beautiful, biggest, sweetest heirloom on the market. It’s hard not to get wrapped up in all the hype. The only problem is, I don’t have time for seeds.
Seeds, had I bothered, would have had to have been started a month ago, in that greenhouse I don’t have, and then transferred out about now into those raised beds I haven’t gotten around to finishing…
But I just want my purple tomatoes! Like, yesterday.
I was almost ready to give in and settle for whatever predictable red variety I could find at my local nursery, when I stumbled upon a website that appears to be the answer to all my problems.
Windowbox.com is a site geared towards container gardeners like myself. Along with the usual useful tubs and window boxes and space-saving gardening equipment, they ship 10-week-old organic heirloom tomato seedlings all across the country. I still haven’t figured out which I am going to order. I only have so much space, but the pictures and descriptions make it tough to not just click “add to my cart” over and over until my finger falls off.
Anyway, I’ll update soon when I’m ready to place my order. I’m very excited!!!
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