This morning, noticed there is already a little tiny tomato forming on one of the plants. The plant is only about a foot tall and haven't staked it yet, but there's a little tiny tomato about the size of marble.
first tomato spotted
May 18, 2013
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Hope the squirrels did not read this.
You are truly among the blessed. What, it's still May, and you have a tomato? Hallelujah! Blessed be the home gardener. Compared to the industrialized tomatoes of Florida, your tomato has 30% more vitamin C,
30% more thiamine, 19% more niacin, 62% more calcium, and 14 times less sodium. Enjoy.
don't forget 1000% more flavor!
My bad. At least a 1000% more flavor, yes!
And that may be an underestimate... I love garden-fresh tomatoes! The plants are growing well; looking forward to a good harvest. The cukes not so much so. One has already given up and withered. Still three growing, but not very quickly... If I just get fresh tomatoes though, I will be happy.
Me, too. Got a few happy lil' campers. Hope they maintain their "cool" th= rough the summer. Because our beach community gets marine layer, at least = through "May gray" and "June gloom", tomatoes don't always do well.
I've had good years and bad years and terrific years.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother. In summer, good US tomatoes are cheap and= abundant, esp. at the farmers markets. In winter, when I yearn for them, = can only get Mexican ones (fertilized with the stuff we sell them because i= t's illegal up here) Go figure!
HB
What stuff is illegal here that fertilizes tomatoes there?
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