The Adventures of Sassafras and Zekey-Pants: Carlo the Tomato Plant

Friday, April 20th, Zeke's class took a walking field trip over to the high school to visit the greenhouse. Zeke had so much fun and told me all about the plants and flowers that he saw there. When I picked him up from school that afternoon there was a tomato plant waiting to go home with him. I don't have much of a green thumb so I wasn't sure what exactly we were going to do with this plant. Then I had a great idea. One of Zeke's most favorite things to do is go over to our aunt Tonya and Uncle JoeJoe's house. When he is there he likes to do "man stuff" with JoeJoe in the yard. They rake up leaves and acorns, move sticks, water, etc. Zeke loves it. So I thought we could plant it at their house!! As Zeke and I were driving home, we stopped by their house to show them his new plant and he told them all about his field trip. He taught us that his plant needs soil, sun, and water. JoeJoe had a perfect idea of just where they could plant it and Tonya had a tomato cage and all. We left it over there with plans to come back a few days later to plant it. Tonya and JoeJoe called us on Tuesday and said they were ready for Zeke to come over to plant his tomato plant. Before they called I made a trip to Target to get Zeke some gardening gloves, a shovel, a couple of rakes, and a watering can. I picked him up from school on Tuesday and told him what were going to do. He was very excited! When we got to their house they were waiting for us outside with the tomato plant ready to be put in the big pot. Zekey helped JoeJoe put soil in the pot. Then he shoveled a hole in the center to put the tomato plant in. After that they secured the plant with soil all around. Once his plant had been placed in the big pot it was time to water it. Zeke did a great job putting plenty of water in the soil. Tonya had Uncle JoeJoe get the tomato cage out of the garage and she helped Zeke put it around his plant. JoeJoe moved the plant over to their front flower bed. Zekey will have to go over to check on his tomato plant and make sure it has plenty of water...that is his new job. We are keeping our fingers crossed that we don't kill it!!! That night when Zeke was about to go to bed, he decided he wanted his plant to be named Carlo. :)