Tomatoes

tomatoes

One of my tomato plants finally has tomatoes.  Tiny, tiny tomatoes.  There is no way they are going to be ripe before the first frost.  The other plant doesn’t even have tiny tomatoes yet.

The one with tomatoes blew off my porch in a storm and its stake broke.  Now it’s indoors, propped against the window.  Poor thing…  But it does seem to be doing better than the other one.  Maybe they’ll do better indoors.  I don’t think they like how cold Flagstaff gets at night.

Comments

  1. Mike says:

    The weather has been pretty cold here this year (colder than normal, sometimes by 10-15 degrees below average per day for extended stretches), but the biggest problem we have with tomatoes is wind.

    We live on a hill, and the wind sweeps up the hill like a Valkyrie, laying waste to any and all tomato cages and their associated plants.

    We’ve started tying the cages, which helps, but the limbs still get blown around.

    When we move to Florida, we’ll pick a spot better optimized for gardening, and then grow tomatoes year-round.

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