Sunday, July 13, 2025

The Sunday Five: How Does Your Garden Grow


1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden?

2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? 

3: Describe your current growing situation? 

4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? 

5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? 

My Answers: 

1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? Tomatoes, nicely ripe. 

2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown? When I was growing up, green beans have a delightful texture, tomatoes taste devine, brush the dirt off on tiny carrots. 

3: Describe your current growing situation? Nada, I am not allowed to keep plants, after the cactus died from neglect. 

4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? Construction debri and history I imagine. 

5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?  Ignoring the scientific definitions, a tomato is a vegetable. 

Please share your answers in the comments. 



20 comments:

  1. 1. Oranges or tangerines.
    2. No
    3. Five out of six houseplants are surviving. Outdoors the geraniums and roses are thriving. I'm also getting bigger.
    4. Dead or in traction.
    5. When bought at a store it's a vegetable. When gifted by a friend who knows how to grow them, they're fruit because they are sweet. Thats my story yada yada.

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    1. I knew there was a reason I don't own a shovel anymore.

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  2. 1. As you, tomatoes.
    2. Broad beans and peas.
    3. Three pot plants, one indoors.
    4. The same, construction debris.
    5. I'll say tomato is a fruit, because I eat them as I would fruit, as well as eating them in the more conventional ways.

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    1. I bought some nice tomatoes yesterday at the market.

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  3. 1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? String beans! Potatoes. And so many others.
    2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? Yes.
    3: Describe your current growing situation? Nada
    4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? From 7 floors above, I have no idea.
    5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Fruit

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    1. I imagine you are on top of centuries of history.

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  4. 1. Tomatoes. Or Basil. You didn't say 'herb'.
    2. Sure.
    3. Nonexistent.
    4. Dirt. Clay.
    5. Fleshy fruit.

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    1. You could plant a garden, for Shep would dig it.

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  5. 1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? I'd say tomatoes, but without fresh peppers and onions and herbs is it really my favorite??
    2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? When I was a kid we'd eat the first tomatoes picked.
    3: Describe your current growing situation? All deck containers for tomatoes, peppers, onions and herbs.
    4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? Dirt and tree roots.
    5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Fruit.

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    1. Our terrace faces northwest, nothing seems to grow there.

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  6. 1: What is your favourite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? Victoria plums - ripe and juicy.
    2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? Yes - of course. We have a patio with a table and chairs and sometimes we eat there . Higher up the garden is our vegetable plot which I have just been hoeing.
    3: Describe your current growing situation? I am six feet tall and I stopped growing upward fifty three years ago. Outward is a different matter. There's more tummy than there used to be.
    4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? Soil though I have occasionally found pieces of pottery and bits of old clay pipes. Also earthworms.
    5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? It is undoubtedly a fruit - sometimes called the love apple though I have no idea who gave it that silly name.

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    1. We are rounding out our lives at this age.

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  7. 1. Peas in the shell.
    2. Yes.
    3. Like you, nada.
    4. Concrete.
    5. Don't be a slave to the binary. A tomato is a fruity vegetable.

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  8. I don't have a vegetable garden but I do get produce from my brother's garden plot because I help water it when he travels. Today I will make zucchini bread from zucchini I got from his garden.

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    1. The place we stayed in France in 2024, had massive greenhouses filled with Zucchini.

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  9. 1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? Tomatoes
    2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? Yes
    3: Describe your current growing situation? no garden, no plants
    4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? A mix of sand, silt and clay.
    5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? My grandmother said 'fruit' I say vegetable.

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    1. There are a couple of organic farms out on the west side of the Phoenix metro area.

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  10. 1: What is your favorite vegetable or fruit, fresh from the garden? Tomatoes
    2: Have you ever eaten veggies while in the garden they were grown in? Yes, peas
    3: Describe your current growing situation? Limited to the lemon tree that came with the house
    4: If you push a shovel in the ground where you live, what will you turn up? Alluvium and at certain times of the year, the river (why the lemon tree is surviving)
    5: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Tomatoes are vers.

    Will Jay

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    1. Sweet garden peas are best when they are very-very fresh.

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