First Tomato 2009!

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Here’s my first tomato of the year.  Started indoors the first week of March, then put out on the 20th of April.  It was already setting fruit when I put it out, and I made an earlier post on it.

This was grown outdoors, and I didn’t do anything special with it.  Ordinary purchased potting soil.  I didn’t pinch off any part of the plant or do anything else to help speed maturing of the fruit.

The small tomato you see in the picture, while a little split and catfaced, is otherwise fully ripe and healthy.  The others are just a few days from being ripe.

I don’t know anything about this tomato other than what you see here.

4 Replies to “First Tomato 2009!”

  1. Yay, congrats! I can’t wait until we get our first tomatoes this year, but I think we’ve got a ways to go…

  2. Holy COW! I don’t have a ripe tomato yet and here you are in the Netherlands, flaunting tomato-ripeness! Well done, Patrick!

  3. Amazing! You are certainly flaunting!

    I sowed my seed on Feb 21, faithfully tended, and finally some tiny green tomatoes now. Nice to see a yummy sign of hope.

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