One of my favorite hobbies for many years was growing a garden, especially tomatoes. I grew other things but the tomatoes was the most interesting, I suppose the process was what held my interest because it is related to our own growing and becoming what ever we wanted to become.

If any of you are into gardening, or were at anytime in the past, then I believe you will understand this procedure very well.

If you are just starting a garden you first have to find a place that you think is going to be the most fertile ground and a soil that you can work. This takes a little understanding of what you are starting to do.

Your next job is to figure out the best way to till the soil. Do you want to do the manual labor yourself, or do you want to do it the easy way with a piece of modern equipment. Of course the modern equipment is the easier way to do it, but if the size of ground that you picked is not too large, then you can use the garden hoe.

My garden was never very large so I always decided to use the hoe. I think I just wanted to be as much a part of the process physically as I could. I have to admit that sometimes I felt like I was making a mistake with that hoe, but that's what I choose to do and it always made me feel very close to those tomatoes.

Once you get the ground dug up and turned over then comes the process of protecting your garden. So you get in your truck and head for Home Depot. (Always keeping in mind that you could go to the store and get all the tomatoes you wanted for a lot less trouble and money).

If you live where animals can destroy your garden you definitely want to fence it in, so you are going to need some strong post and some chicken wire, and of course you will need to build a gate so you can get in and out of your garden.

Oh, by the way, don't forget to pick up some fertilizer and lime while you are at the store. You may as well get the miracle grow while you are there rather than forget it when you go back to get the ground fasteners for the chicken wire so the animals cannot dig under your fence.

Well, once you get all this in place you will be very proud of your progress so far. The ground looks perfect for growing anything. All you need now are the plants. (For me it was mostly tomatoes). So back you go to the garden store and get your plants.

The one thing you forgot was a water hose long enough to reach your garden, and it may take 2 hoses depending on how far it is from your water outlet.

Now you plant your little tomato plants and go in the house and wait for your beautiful tomatoes. I'm here to tell you that your project has just started. You begin to water those plants everyday and spray some miracle grow and all of a sudden they start to grow like a wild fire.

You probably never thought to purchase stakes, so you go back to the garden store and purchase some stakes. Now what you may have forgotten was some string or strips of cloth to tie them up so when the tomatoes start growing they won't break the vines. (You are now really wondering why you don't just go to the store and buy some tomatoes)

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