My youngest daughter has been very excited waiting to pick our tomatoes. She picked a green one a couple weeks back which I informed her that she needs to wait until they turn red, guess I needed to be more clear about “dark” red, since yesterday when we went out to our garden the first thing I heard was “I picked a matoe” which she is proudly displaying below.
In the past couple years we have grown strawberries the story has been my oldest daughter salivating over the strawberries asking, “Is it red enough yet?” This year her desire for strawberries is just as great though with the plant maturing as well as the additional plant we propagated last year she has been easily getting her fill with plenty more ripe strawberries on the plants. Not wanted to…
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If I ask my four year old what it takes for a plant to grow she can quickly respond with response, “Sun, water, air, and soil” This is a great answer for photosynthesis since plants need energy from the sun. They leverage the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and water (H2O) to create starches and sugar. Now the soil part of this answer is where things get a…
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Oh, how cute! We had fried green tomatoes for dinner last night. One of my favorite kinds. You might have to learn to like them like that. 🙂 This year we grew one heirloom large yellow, and a Mr. Stripey which is smaller and red and yellow in blotches and stripes. I wasn’t sure if I would know when they were ready to pick. I identify with your little girl! Precious child! (You can tell I’m a grandma.)
How sweet. Just put it on the window sill it will turn red.
We put it on the window sill and did turn pretty red; unfortunately she loved the tomato a little too much and damaged it quite a bit. Fortunately, we have more coming in already red.
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