Go tomatoes go
I am a bit jealous seeing pictures across the country/world of everyone’s baskets of tomatoes, but I am getting close to my first few tomatoes on their modest vines starting to turn red…I see some salsa in my near future.
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Fingers crossed! We had luck with the cherry and wild tomatoes (same size) and now even one bush tomato with ordinary sized fruits. Mind you, that is after a few years of trying our best.
There’s nothing like those days and weeks, waiting for fruits to ripen to where we want them to reach.
Your tomatoes are ahead of mine. I am afraid I may be ripening most of my green tomatoes in the house in a brown paper bag this year. But I am holding on to hope still. It just did not get warm early enough this year.