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Thursday, June 16, 2011

The tomato plants

here at the house are already out of control! I decided to stay home all day today and get some things done around the house. Well, I ended up spending a great deal of time trimming and tying up the tomatoes plants. It's a good thing I did! Look what I found buried in all those leaves!!

The first two ripe tomatoes! Of course they are the "Matt's Wild Cherry". I think that there's going to be one happy "Italian" around here tonight! He actually had a tomato dream the other night. He said that he came downstairs for breakfast and I had a big beautiful ripe Cherokee Purple tomato for him! These are not a CP.....but it's a start!

18 comments:

  1. Whoohoo!!!! First tomatoes of the summer!!!

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  2. Woohoo! I think I need to go look at my Sungolds.

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  3. At least there were two of them so you didn't have to fight LOL!

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  4. Does that mean my MWCs aren't far behind? It has grown 21" in 15 days (38" tall now), and has some teeny-tiny toms!

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  5. Aw Shucks! I forgot about those little Cherry tomatoes that did so well for me last year..So busy trying to find the Heirlooms I wanted..At first I just planted them for fun, they turned out to be quite delcious.. Those strawberries are pure temption.

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  6. Congrats on your first tomatoes of the season!! I need to grow some cherry tomatoes just for their early progress:)

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  7. Well done! You are week ahead of us here. In fact, I just found my first green set tomato today. Enjoy! Nothing tastes better than the first ripe one of the year.

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  8. Hooray for the Matt's Wild Cherry!
    I love them-so delicious. And early-which is the only tomato I usually end up with here on a cold year (2 out of every 3 years!!!)
    Congrats!
    And most definately enjoy!!

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  9. First tomatoes = always a landmark moment!

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  10. Thanks everyone...."The Italian" and I enjoyed that little taste of whats to come. It was really quite a tease to taste that wonderful flavor. I hope that the maters start to ripen quickly!

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  11. The first tomatoes are always worthy of a happy dance. I need some warmth to occur before the green fruit on my Sun Golds will move on to actually ripen. I can hope it will occur someday in the near future (sigh). :D

    I am heading to Pennsylvania the end of July for a visit to my daughter - we will have to connect up and see if I can manage a visit while I am there.

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  12. My wife absolutely loves the Matt's Wild Cherry variety, alas we did not grow them this year.:( I love your new header picture and am glad to hear you have been able to acquire so many wonderful berries.:)

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  13. Laura, Send me an e-mail and we can make arrangements!!! We'll have to get "The Italian" cooking!

    Mr.H, The Matt's are definitely a great tasting cherry tomato!

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  14. Tomatoes don't have to be big to be beautiful! Let's hope they are the first of many...

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  15. They've come so, so soon. Ours are at least 2 weeks away, probably more. What's your secret?

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  16. Mark, Those two little tomatoes were definitely a site for sore eyes...and tasty too! We're hoping for a big tomato harvest this year!

    Jody, The Matt's Wild Cherry was one of my early tomato plants. I think it will be a few weeks before any of the big tomatoes will be ripe!

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  17. I've been checking my plants every day but its going to be awhile before I get any maters! Great work!

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