Even though I take a lot of photos of plants and flowers, I'm bloody awful at growing them. Cacti have died under my watch. That's the kind of awful we're talking about here. But despite that, my love of a home grown tomato causes me to try and grow the blasted things just about every year. The results have been firmly in keeping with my skill level. What that means is that usually around September we can pick a couple of misshapen dwarfish tomatoes too small to make more than a token number of BLTs.
Last year wasn't my fault. No, really. They were literally drowned by a flood. The year before was my fault. I planted them much too late and never fertilized. And then there was the year I tried those funky upside down pots. Let's not talk about it. The two years before that they kept getting some sort of rot that turned the bottoms black. Experience tells me to take the blame for that too but I really don't know the reason.
That brings us to this year. I planted them on time. They've been fertilized. There hasn't been a flood or a serious heat wave. They're getting watered regularly. And in this photo you seem the first signs of the coming goodies.
