How's your old tomato?

Faithful people will tell you that anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can tell you the amount of apples in a seed.

Think about it! You plant the seed and who knows what will grow...

James Prigioni took that leap. Taking two tomato slices from two McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, he took the seeds and wound up growing healthy tomato plants in 124 days.

He went two ways with his seeds. The one tomato, he planted two seeds in a red Solo cup.  The other, he sliced off a sliver and put that tomato morsel into a Solo cup filled with soil.

He kept both cups inside for 23 days, and then moved them outside- the sprouting seeds in a bucket and the slice right into the ground.

By the 94th day, he was picking fruit off the vine of the ground plant. 

And below, the results of the plant grown from the slice! It had dozens of little tomatoes on its branches.

Prigioni's taste test: “No acidity, sweet but a mild sweet,” he said. “The kind of tomato that you could just eat a bunch of.”

And if you ask him why, since you can get a ton of Roma tomatoes at Lidl for next to nothing, he will tell you, “For me, it was just about fun. And it actually helped improve my whole garden because I was so excited to get out there and see how those tomatoes were doing… that I stopped and looked around at the garden.”

I've written before about the horrible soil around our neighborhood, which was built over the long-ago-cleared out remains of a huge gravel pit. One of the neighbors grew some tomatoes once. They were baseball-sized. And they tasted like baseballs.

See you at Lidl, but gardening caps off to Mr. Prigioni!