This week Early Girl lived up to her name, as she pulled into second, behind the cherry tomatoes. Yesterday I found what I thought were sloooowly ripening red tomatoes (when I checked several days ago) had turned golden yellow, and I picked 20 in one day! Eleven red tomatoes were ready on the three other plants, which had yielded a grand total of four or five, so far.If you are a gardener, you know these little surprises are among gardening's choice rewards.
Yum - I love tomatoes! Reading through your archives now... I think it's interesting that we're reading some of the same blogs!
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ReplyDeleteTo me, ripening tomatoes and picking runner beans is what it is all about..
I am ever so late here, but I love your tomato picture. It sort of fits with a tomato poem I wrote last fall:
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Five tomatoes ripening
on my window ledge
four are small and hard and green
the fifth is on the edge
of young tomato adulthood
large, red-green and blushing
cast out from every unripe vine
of gossiping... and wishing