Finally!

First tomato harvest date 2012: August 15th. That's the latest tomato harvest since I've been gardening at this location (10 years). These are also the largest 'sweet 100' cherry tomatoes I've ever seen in my garden. And there are a lot more just this big waiting to turn red.

Hurry Up, So I Can Eat You

A couple of cherry tomatoes have set on the vines.

Frozen Garden: Cherry Tomatoes

Normally, I would save as many tomatoes as possible before the first big freeze...but I was out of town when it happened this year.

Out of Time

Tomato plants have already been touched by light frost.

A Little More

Finally getting a tomato harvest groove going. I see...salsa...in our future.

Could it Be? A tomato? Finally?

Mark the calendar. First date of harvest for 2011: August 3. Fingers crossed we have a growing season well into September this year since it got started so late.

Hello Tomatoes

The super sweet 100s, sun golds and green envy cherry tomato varieties are the first to sprout this year.

Seed-Starting: Tomatoes and Basil

The plans for a "cherry tomato rainbow" have officially begun. I have several different colors of cherry tomato plants started, along with basil. Seeds should sprout in 7-10 days. I have a big cover to keep the pots moist and warm near a south-facing window.

Tomato Cage Brights

Right before the first big recent snowstorm, we painted the wooden tomato cages bright colors - thinking that would liven things up during the non-growing season.

Frozen Dead

That's that. The true end of the gardening season with a no-question-about-it killer frost this past week.

Purple Tomato Cage

Wild colors are coming to the garden beds. I'm painting the wooden tomato cages :)

Beans and Tomatoes

Some of the pickings over the weekend....which also became the eatings.

Harvesting

The garden beds are serving up yummies for our dinner table. Bush beans, cucumbers and cherry tomatoes.

Tomato Plant Babies

A couple of our cherry tomato plant seedlings. We're about 6 weeks from planting time. We'll start another round of plants next week. All the cherry tomato seeds sprouted. Not a single beefeater tomato seed sprouted. Hmph!

Frozen Fruit

How can that be that there are two still-red and frozen cherry tomatoes hiding in a garden bed?

Last-Minute Tomato Harvest

We hurried outside Wednesday night to pick as many tomatoes as possible before the killing frost that arrived overnight. My family helped. The instructions were to pick tomatoes that were showing any bit of color, in hopes they will ripen inside over the next couple of weeks.

Weekend Garden Harvest

A quick harvest over the weekend in the garden beds. These cherry tomatoes went into a fresh batch of salsa.

Garden Bounty

Some garden goodies...still waiting for cherry tomatoes and more cucumbers.

They're On The Way

My coveted garden bed crop may have a few goodies to share in a couple of weeks. I grow mostly cherry tomatoes for salads, snacking and salsa.

Tomato Plants Flowering

The cherry tomato plants are starting to bloom. Fingers crossed for the first crop in mid-July.