Not so much this time around. I think I started the seeds in early April in an egg carton inside for close to six weeks. I then spent about a week getting them acclimated to the weather by setting them outside for a couple of hours at the time.
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| May 20, 2011 |
Though they were still quite tiny, I went ahead and planted them. With a few days, the spring rains had all but decimated them.
So....I bought a 4-pack of roma tomato plants at Westerville Farmer's Market on May 25, 2011 for $4. This broke my rule regarding 4-inch pots, but I've grown tomatoes before and figured I could make these work without much trouble.
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| May 25, 2011 |
They grew large fairly quickly, so I bought a tomato cage to help keep them upright.
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| June 9, 2011 |
They started to produce green tomatoes in late June.
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| June 29, 2011 |
Then the tomatoes turned red.
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| July 29, 2011 |
But a lot of them were rotted on the bottoms. I asked my co-worker, Susan, what that meant and she said that it was a sign of them being over-watered. It was an unusually wet spring and summer, so that made sense.
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| July 29, 2011 |
Once I stopped watering them as often, the tomatoes stopped rotting and I was able to get a couple of handfuls from the plant.
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| August 11, 2011 |
Oddly, I had a volunteer tomato plant sprout up out of the wooden box that I had used to grow the peas and beans.
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| August 27, 2011 |
The same happened for many of the roma tomatoes. I think they just didn't get enough sun throughout September and October.
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| September 5, 2011 |
Thing I'll Do Differently Next Year:
I'll use a wooden box just for the tomato plants, instead of making the peppers and tomatoes share a box.
I'll also make sure to cut down on the watering, and I may try to find a slightly sunnier location for them so that they get enough light to ripen.
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