Susan's garden/Photo by Susan Reimer

Just when my tomatoes are about to ripen, I am leaving on vacation. Happens every time. I swear, I could vacation in May, and my tomatoes would come and go while I was gone.

I will be away for two weeks, beginning July 12, and I am looking for someone to harvest my tomatoes and water the plants on my deck while I am gone.

I am also looking for guest bloggers here on Garden Variety.

Sometime in the next week, write to me at susan.reimer@baltsun.com and tell me about your garden. If you can, e-mail me a picture, too. I will put them together and schedule them to appear on Garden Variety while I am gone.

It will be like Christmas. You will have to check every morning to see if your post is up!

Write and tell me what you like about gardening, what you hate. Your successes and your failures. The tricks and shortcuts you have learned over the years. About the garden your grandmother had or the one you left behind when you moved.

If you have been reading Garden Variety, you know this isn't brain surgery. So relax, and jump into this blogging adventure.