Tomatoes - 3

We are up to 8 of our roma type tomatoes growing! 

A bunch of 3 :D 

And our newest one that just recently started growing! 

Tomatoes - 2

I'm really excited about this post because I wasn't sure if I'd ever get to make it. After I got my tomato plants, I watered them and they all just started drooping. I wasn't sure if it was because they were to cold in the window or because of to much watering.

I posted in a local group, got a quick answer (it was way to much water) and some additional advice to help my plants out and now we have this: 

That's at least double, maybe even triple, the size the plants were just 6 days ago when I took pictures last. It blew my mind and is the exact reason I wanted to document my plants growth. I hadn't really thought they'd grown much until I took a look at the pictures I'd done before. :)

You probably noticed that my tomato plant is in a small styrafoam cup. Part of the advice I recieved was to transplant the tomatoes into a larger container and farther up closer to the bottom leaves to get them more stability. Boy did it help a ton! I got the cup idea after watching a pepper transplanting video from The Rusty Garden Blog (that guy clearly knows what he's doing so I thought it a trick worth following).

Going by what he said, I should be able to keep my tomatoes in these containers until it's safe to transplant them outside, which is just another 2-3 weeks away! I can't wait. And I'll of course continue to document growth each week until then.

Tomatoes

During the bad weather, we went to the local greenhouse and got 12 Roma tomato plants. They've been in the window seal since... and I'm very new to the tomato world, having never actually grown any before... so these little guys have me worried.

They are just a little droopy. Not all of them but about 1-2 in each set of 4. You'll see what I mean in the picture:

See what I mean. It's just a little... "bendy". I don't know if saying its wilted is exact right description. Others stay up nice and tall though. Definitely color me confused.

I asked in a local group and it was said that perhaps I've been over watering them so I'm going to let them enjoy the sun for several hours today and bring them in and be a little more careful about how much water I give them to see if that helps! :D 

Tomato - 2

My poor little tomato plant doesn't seem to be doing to well. A branch died off and the tomato turned red (well that part is good) but it didn't get much larger then it had been. I'm hoping the transplant was just rough on it... after all, it took the other one a while to come back. 

It's still alive, by the way, and has even gotten a total of 3 flowers on it now. The first one died. The second one just fell off. Like the stem even. It was weird. We'll see what the third one does. 

Tomato - 1

This is my second non-organic plant, a tomato we transplanted. It's... hanging in there. We are still kind of waiting to see if it is going to survive the transplant lol. Until then we remain hopeful that we will one day have a ripe tomato from it. 

:D

I'm picturing burgers with lettuce and tomato (home grown of course), a side salad (all home grown, duh) and a dessert of cantaloupe and strawberries. Yup... that will be one hell of an awesome meal.

Everyone says homegrown plants taste better and you have no idea how badly I want to taste the difference!