weekly garden report: tomato progress

[cellio]

There have been lots of green cherry tomatoes for a while. Friday I saw the first signs of other colors, and today a couple of them are actually red. I'm not sure when to pick them; they still feel pretty firm and it looks like they could gain more color yet, but I'll keep an eye on them.

I also added a couple more stakes because...tomatoes. This has been educational.

I have actually harvested basil several times, not that you can probably tell from the growth here. Next year I hope to do better on "bushy rather than tall". Pepper count remains the same and they remain green. I understand that they will turn red, orange, or yellow on the plant and that each plant produces peppers of one unknown-to-me color.

If I do more than one tomato plant next year, I'm definitely getting another big pot like the one on the right (which came from Home Depot via curbside pickup). That was the smaller of the two plants when I transplanted it. (While it would have made sense to put the larger plant in the larger pot, I was also concerned about trauma from transplanting, so I risked the smaller one.)

Two weeks ago today, one green tomato fell off of one of those plants (the one on the left). I figured I had nothing to lose by leaving it on my counter to see if it would ripen (no idea whether it would), and since then it's been joined by a few others. The others are green, but this greeted me this morning:

Comments

[kayre]

When the tomatoes are fully ripe they will come off with a moderate tug. Enjoy!