I had high hopes for the tomatoes I planted back in May. Unfortunately, my black thumb struck again. I managed to get three tomatoes out of the three plants that I could eat. The plants grew maybe ten total, but most of them started rotting on the vine before they even ripened. Plus, they were all way undersized. They were the size of cherry tomatoes, but they weren’t supposed to be cherry tomatoes. And one plant never grew any tomatoes at all.
Last week, I had one last tomato growing on one of the plants and it was the biggest one that I’d had so far. I was just waiting for it to get ripe enough I could pull it off and bring it inside to finish ripening. Then finally this week, I thought it should be about time to pluck it. So I went outside, reached down to grab it…and saw that something had eaten a big chunk out of it. One entire side was gone, leaving the rest still hanging there, already starting to shrivel in the sun.
Grr!
I won’t be discouraged. Next year, I’ll plant somewhere else and see if I can do any better. My sister-in-law planted two tomato plants for her sons and those plants are huge, with a ton of big tomatoes growing on them. Is too much to ask for one appropriately sized tomato that hasn’t been chomped in half by an animal or bug?