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!
Tomatoes you say?
Tomatoes are food for prey.
Eat or be eaten.
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.
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!)
Tomatoes green, yellow or red
No matter what color
They’re all fruity
Should be much warmer
More CO2 helps a bit
Grow faster, damn it
Soo tomato haiku
First fall scarlet
On maple or tomato?
June only green
Summer’s first nightshade
become fried green tomatoes
for impatient boys