I am happy to report that there are tomatoes in the garden. I found two! Over 70 plants and I may get 2 tomatoes.
Tomatoes
And that plant is one that was in the greenhouse all winter producing tomatoes and I transplanted it to the garden. There were 10 plants in the greenhouse and 9 of them survived being transplanted. I guess it doesn’t matter that 8 of them didn’t produce anything.
I feel sorry for them though . . they were covered in small tomatoes and the hail knocked them all off and broke the tops out of most of the plants. Then when they were coming back, we had so much hard rain that it broke all the blossoms off so they haven’t had a very good chance to do great things this year.
Tomato Vine
The plants are big and healthy looking now and I have high hopes of having fall tomatoes if I can keep them alive through summer. If not . . there’s always next year!
Carolyn says
I realize it’s late in the season for those tomatoes and bless their hearts they have had an uphill battle. I think their whipping by the weather was equal to what my Dad did to his tomatoes in the Srping….he would take Mom’s broom and whip them. At least that is what what it looked like to a six year old. Then their was the time I got mad at him and chopped down all his onions. They came back with a fury and as he said it was the best crop he had ever had. I am also sure I felt better too.
barbara says
well, at least you have greenery to look at. the woodchucks ate ours to the ground, along with radishes, cucumbers, stringbeans, lettuce and baby mixed salad greens.