Green Tomato Buds Haiku
Green tomato buds
replace small yellow flowers;
summer has arrived.
My tomatoes were off to a slow start this summer. This was not entirely due to the cool spring. We had our house painted, and I didn’t want to plant tiny seedlings where the painters might step on them.
To have some chance of getting rip tomatoes before the 4th of July, I bought 6 small plants for a dollar, and put them in larger pots. When the painters left, I planted these in the south east corner of the house. I don’t think I’ll have home grown red tomatoes on the 4th, but with some luck, I’ll have some by the 15th!
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Comments
Raphael (Comment#3700) June 28th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Tomatoes you say?
Tomatoes are food for prey.
Eat or be eaten.
Duane Johnson (Comment#3701) June 28th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
I live about 150 miles ESE of you, and my tomatos are also behind schedule. They were set out near the first of June, and I suspect yours will produce well before mine. I’m not about to offer a cookie wager on the subject.
lucia (Comment#3717) June 29th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Duane–
Everything is behind. My basil is behind. I’m worried I won’t get any peppers off my pepper plants. My peonies bloomed on Father’s day instead of Mother’s day.
I haven’t driven out to anywhere where corn grows. Usually the corn is about shoulder high now. (Jim and I laughed at “knee high by the fourth of July” way back in grad school. That must have been a mantra back before hybridization!)
Hoi Polloi (Comment#3718) June 29th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Tomatoes green, yellow or red
No matter what color
They’re all fruity
George Tobin (Comment#3719) June 29th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Should be much warmer
More CO2 helps a bit
Grow faster, damn it
DougM (Comment#3755) June 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Soo tomato haiku
First fall scarlet
On maple or tomato?
June only green
steven mosher (Comment#3826) July 1st, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Summer’s first nightshade
become fried green tomatoes
for impatient boys