Extra Early Tomato Update

Posted on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 11:13

I mentioned in my previous "Weight Loss" post that the only thing planted in the garden when I took the pictures were the extra early tomatoes, but that made me realize that I haven't updated you on their progress. I linked to the post from my "Out In The Garden" blog where I outlined the plan to harvest ripe tomatoes by June 24th.  It was one of my main points on my 2007 Garden To Do list. I haven't done all that I planned to do in order to help that occur, but the tomatoes are doing pretty well.

There are a dozen or so tomatoes coming on, and the bigger ones are about the size of a racket ball. Since the variety is Early Girl, they should only get about the size of a tennis ball before they begin turning red. As Ma mentioned earlier, we have been making sure these plants get enough water since we have been in a mini drought. 

Ripe tomatoes in June may not sound very impressive to you southern gardeners, but it is here in northern Kentucky. To put it in the proper perspective, I picked my first ripe tomato last year on August 5th.

I didn't put down the black plastic that I planned to, so I hope the cool nights of May have not slowed down the tomato growth too much.

We are now less than a month away from June 24th. Keep your fingers crossed for me that I will indeed be able to eat my own organic, home grown, garden fresh tomato on that day - which is my birthday.

And yes Eric (PureWater), I will eat it lazily while sitting on my new deck!

- Pa

YUM

Posted by lerdman4 on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 06:02 - Link

on those tomatoes I was in AWE that you have tomatoes that size already.. I have to take some time and read much of your blog it is so intreging. I love it.. and also Little house on the prairie my favorite TV show, just watched 2 episodes today..LOL
Lisa