Tomato happy

[Elle's Garden]

This isn't a question, just so happy to report that I have just picked the first ripe tomatoe I could see from my bedroom window (growing on sunny ledge outside) and found 5 to pick!!

It is amazing the joy and acheivement a few small plants can give

p.s. on the all important husband taste test they were pronounced 'lovely'

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Elle's Garden, it's a lovely feeling picking and eating the first of something.
And if you are the same as me, you will still get the same enjoyment after many years of growing.

[Elle's Garden]

Do you know, I truly believe I will - I hope so anyway!!

[macmac]

I think with tomatoes you always get a warm feeling tasting your own,there one thing you really can't replicate in the shops.After two years without tomatoes-stolen by blight, this year we've already picked lot's.The blight is creeping along and we've had to pull up some plants but the kitchen windowsill is still a beautiful sight of reds and yellow Yum

[Primrose]

Yes, picking and eating that first sun ripened tomato is one of the joys of gardening. It is one vegetable I would feel very frustrated if I couldn't grow as quite apart from the flavour, it seems to provide one of the better yields per plant than many other vegetables.