Grow Purple T-Shirt gardening friend gift then turns into a rose

then turns into a rose garden

all in service of a fruit that costs pocket change at the market

For gardeners who stake their tomatoes in spring and spend all summer watching them outgrow every cage they were ever given

While the calendar turns over its big round numbers

The compost remembers every one of them

Grow Purple T-Shirt gardening friend gift then turns into a roseFor gardeners who slip a Cherokee Purple in among the reds just to see who notices. There's a quiet pride in the odd one out. The reds are dependable, familiar, everything a tomato is supposed to be, and then that dusky purple slice turns up and quietly steals the plate. It tastes a little like a small rebellion, grown on purpose. Nine slices on the vine, eight of them playing it safe. The purple one was always the favorite.