Tomatoes

You may recall last year’s post about my tomato mystery (the closer box in this photo routinely had identical varietals cared for identically produce plants half the size of the opposite box). This year I have made sure to provide double or treble the water to the “weaker” box after last year seemed to confirm that the water just drained faster in that box for some reason. That seems to have done the trick - it not only has multiple volunteer plants from leftover seeds from last year starting to flower now, but the plants generally match the height of those on the other side. Victory!

Unfortunately, very long story short, we were several weeks later than usual getting them I. The ground to begin with, so we will have only a fraction of the fruit of previous years.
Additionally, we chose a couple full-size varietals this year instead of all cherries. Hopefully they won’t all die or come ripe while we’re out of town for a couple weeks in the near future.

P.s. the red spiral in the foreground is a fun tomato support for a volunteer tomato that sprouted in the yard that I moved to a pot amongst my mint.