First Fruit

It looks like a cherry tomato, but it’s supposed to be full size.

This plant is growing in a pot. Maybe I should thin things out a little to concentrate the growth? I don’t know. I’ve never had to do that before.

first-tomato

I just ate my first tomato of the season. It’s still April. I usually don’t plant until Memorial Day. Oh, California!

Here’s the problem. It looks like a cherry tomato, but it’s supposed to be full size.

This plant is growing in a pot. Maybe I should thin things out a little to concentrate the growth? I don’t know. I’ve never had to do that before.

The taste was good, though a little pulpy. Not as many seeds as I expected.

I’ll keep observing. Tomatoes are worth it.

4 thoughts on “First Fruit”

  1. I’ll take a stab that the label on the plant you bought was wrong. You didn’t bonzai a tomato plant in a couple of months.

  2. What I use to do when I grew tomatoes, I would buy Burpee’s Big Boy tomato seeds from there catalog. I would plant the seeds indoors. When they were big enough, I would transplant in the ground. A couple of months later, I would start picking tomatoes. Before long, I was picking dozens every day and giving a lot of them away. They were good too. I had a big garden in CA. I would grow tomatoes, green beans, onions, strawberries, raspberries, artichokes, corn, plus I had a lemon, 2 fig, peach & apricot tree. I am making myself hungry now.

  3. Possibly mislabeled? What did the tag say? If it was a patio tomato in a pot,they aren’t very big. That’s what that looks like to me. I work in the garden dept. at the Home Depot here in CT. I know with fruit trees etc. they say if you prune out to have less flowers, you’ll get less in number but bigger fruits..I’m not sure if that works with tomatoes..but there’s an experiment for you 🙂

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