I may have planted too much insurance

So, what with buying 2 tomatoes, and finding a volunteer in my balcony pot, I was already assured of tomatoes.  I mean, surely?

But then as I was planting, I cut off the bottom shoots so I could bury it nice and deep.  And well – there they were – excellent cuttings.

So I planted one cutting of each of the bought seedling and had to actively talk myself out of planting all of them.  It’s insurance.  You never know what could happen, you know.  It’s best to just take out a bit of insurance.  And now I have back ups of the two main tomatoes.

Also I have 5 tomato plants and I’m a single person living alone with two cats, who are obligate carnivores.  I honestly don’t know what I am going to do if all of them thrive.  Perhaps someone at work will want a late seedling… Or maybe I could do two plants to a pot.  But I don’t like to stress my babies.

I’m going to the bait shop this afternoon to buy some worms to put in the pots.  Because tomatoes deserve worm friends.  I’ve crushed up all the dried  up plants from last year and I’m going to put that on top of the soil as a feed for the worms.  Although the soil is pretty rich – so I think they are likely to be OK, in any case.