The 2020 shitshow has extended to my tomato plants. My harvest is deeply underwhelming. I ate my first ones this past week. In September. Everyone else is getting tomatoes at the end of July. I get them in September.
Also – small. Very small. All three plants. And I don’t think it’s just the fact that I’m in a race with the bastard squirrel to harvest them, so I tend to pick as soon as they show any sign of changing color rather than leaving them on the plant to ripen – which would be ideal. I’ve only got 3 tomatoes of normal size. Most are slightly bigger than a cherry when they turn red. Some are cherry size. None are beefsteak size. 
The plants seemed to thrive, despite being in a less than ideal sun location. Of the three plants, the volunteer definitely did the best. And honestly has amazeball tasting tomatoes. It’s too bad I don’t know what it is. But I will be saving seed. But even though the plants grew and seem healthy, I think it’s the lack of sufficient sun that is making the harvest so weak.
Despite all of that, I am honestly delighted in my misfits. Eating tomatoes you grow yourself is lovely. They did not live up to my dreams of their harvest, but I have a long record of dreaming one thing and experiencing another, so – not really surprising.
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Bummer! We’ve been battling the tomato hornworms–they’ve done a number on the Roma tomatoes especially. The Early Girls were super bountiful, but the Cherokee Purples less so.
But even without a bumper crop, homegrown tomatoes are, as you say, so worth the effort for the amazing taste.
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Early girl is my plan for next year. They taste amazing and are hopefully will help me eat tomatoes sooner.
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I picked my last tomatoes of the season yesterday and pulled the plants. We are grading the area where the garden was and have taken down the fence. I’ll put a plant in a pot next year. This year I had 4 plants and got way more tomatoes than 2 people could eat. I gave many away but too many rotted before I got to them. Still they were amazing!
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That was what I was dreaming of in May. An over abundance where I could gift them to all and sundry. Here you are pulling them out and I’m just starting to get a harvest. 😑
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A lot of mine were really small too this year. Only 2 of the 6 plants we put in had normal sized tomatoes. I’m not really sure why. Plants all seemed healthy too.
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I feel sure in my case that they needed more sun. I wish I could remove the tin roof over my balcony.
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Now that is entirely possible. Not enough sun would result in stunted fruit.
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Our tomatoes have been coming in in fits and starts of late, and now we’re under a thick pall of smoke from the U.S. wildfires. I’m grateful for the ones we do get.
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Oh no! Is your home at risk? Are you safe?
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We’re fine. It’s the smoke from the fires in California, Oregon, and Washington that is being pushed north. Sadly it is no respecter of international boundaries. : )
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Thank goodness.
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