Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Deck 4 Garden- Sowing Seeds

Posted by Lieutenant Luke Wyatt (Chief of Security) in Deck 4 Garden- Sowing Seeds

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Deck 4 Garden- Sowing Seeds
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“I have patience, I am the king of patience. I waited for this for so long didn’t I?” He moved his dirty hands between him and her and smiled, “Well I think Chilli Plants are a real contender, from the pictures I’d seen they grow upright and dont take much room at all. There are also loads of different varieties, tomatoes and onions are a little harder, only a few can be grown but they make the best chutneys… so ive read.”

“Actually, you can grow any kind of tomato you like, but there are two main different types. Some are indeterminate, that grow as tall as the season will let them and produce fruit their entire lifespan, and there are determinate tomatoes that only grow to a certain height and set all their fruit at the same time. What you see is what you get. They require different supports so decide what you want to try and I can help you with the rest,” Faye said with a smile as she moved around the bed closer to him, starting to visualize what this bed could look like.

“And I wouldn’t call our interaction the overnight complicated” He was teasing but couldn’t help having a cheeky grin on his face.

• Luke Wyatt

Faye tilted her head to gaze over at him and smirked. “It does help that there wasn’t a lot of talking.”

~Faye Calloway

He grinned at the comment the memories just surfacing enough to remind him how he had felt being with her. Shrugging away the memories and going back to her previous statement, he answered. “So what types of Tomatoes do you recommend, for a chutney or even just to put in a salad? I’m definitely going to go for some Chilli’s I just need to decide which ones. Do you like spicy foods? I was thinking maybe a Scotch Bonnet or hell a Romulan Repear” Luke wasn’t exactly a master chef but he had a few tricks up his sleeves.

• Luke Wyatt

“Dude, my preferred temperature with food is spicy enough to blow my face off,” she said with a grin. “Like I said, I’ve got you covered.” Faye reached into the right leg pocket for her seed packets and riffled through them until she came to one and wiggled. “I was going to start some of these anyway. Bajoran variety. They are a reaper level of heat, with a really well rounded flavour on the back end. Great for cooking,” she said shifting the packet to the pocket on her left leg. “As for tomatoes..”-she riffled through the packets and pulled out another, also shifting it to her left pocket-“you want something good for cooking, more flesh, less water. So a paste tomato works better in your favour.” Faye grabbed both their shovels. “We’ll start these in the greenhouse in a few minutes, but grab that wheelbarrow and we’ll go grab a load of compost for your bed and get it sorted while we’re here.”

Luke really found the way Faye spoke and the words she used compelling, he’d never met anyone to have used words like dude and her mannerism always kept him on his toes. The friendship that was developing was good for Luke and it was having a knock on effect in his day to day, people were actually beginning to enjoy his company all thanks to Faye. He’d never her tell her that though for risk of having his ear burned off by the mocking. He couldn’t help but smile, “He took the packets and looked over them, they had pictures ofthe plant and a brief description of how to maintain them, luckily for him he had Miss Green-finger here to tell him just what to do.

Faye headed off for the compost pile on the far side of the greenhouse next to the storage room, her steps light.

~Faye Calloway

Grabbing the Wheel barrow Luke followed behind her, for some reason he had the sudden urge to scoop Faye in and deposit her in said Compost pile and while he felt they had come along way from when they first met he wasn’t sure he’d escape that action with his life. “So how have you been doing?” He asked attempting some small talk, it had been a few days since they last met and Luke honestly missed the company, not that she was the only person he looked forward to seeing but she was on of them.

• Luke Wyatt