The first tomato has set!!!!!!!!!! Granted it's only about 1/4" across, but there it is. It's a Sweet Million cherry tomato. The nightime temps are just warm enough, high 50's, and everything is growing really fast.

Lucky dawg, mine have experienced a bit of transplant shock and I'm nursing them back to health. They're a bit leggy, so I'm going to re-transplant a couple of them deeper to see if that helps.

That's fabulous! I can't wait for that day... if it ever arrives.

Enjoy!

Heather

That's exciting, isn't it? Are those your favorite kind of cherry tomatoes? What other kinds are you doing?

Note to self:

Don't grind teeth whenever another zone 10 gardeners starts gloating about their tomatoes, when it will be another 4 weeks at least before zone 3 can even put their seedlings in the garden. Keep it together, keep it together. "Serenity Now". :^O :^O

I'm with you, walleye...

well, I have my first tomato FLOWER! I'm pretty pumped about that.

and the peas are blooming, the corn is just starting to sprout, some of the beans are up and running...

i LOVE this time of year, almost as much as when it's harvest time!

I'm honestly not gloating, I just want to share my excitement with folks who understand.

Actually it's gotten cooler here again, highs in the mid 60's which feels cold to us.

Tomato plants: Celebrity, Health Kick, and this cherry tomato. It's been years since I planted a cherry but decided to try again. I honestly can't remember what other types of cherry tomatoes I've grown in the past.

I've got a volunteer plant that's already just starting to get itty bitty tomatoes. I don't think it's a cherry--those are usually the first volunteers we get--it's much too big a plant. Makes up for my "winter tomato" that I planted in the fall against a west-facing wall, that survived the winter and then died by early spring, probably due to all the rain.

I've also got a few volunteer basil babies. :x --J--