We’ve been harvesting tomatoes for about a year now, but they’re gradually getting smaller and smaller:
April 27, 2021
May 4, 2021
We’re afraid it’s about time to order new seeds and start from scratch. We’ll miss our daily harvests.
May 3, 2021
We’ve been harvesting tomatoes for about a year now, but they’re gradually getting smaller and smaller:
April 27, 2021
May 4, 2021
We’re afraid it’s about time to order new seeds and start from scratch. We’ll miss our daily harvests.
May 3, 2021
Wonder why that is? Maybe they need plant food, but new seeds is a good idea as well.
I have seen bags of plant food in the garden center that are just for tomatos.
I’m afraid old age happens even when there is good nutrition. Sigh… 🙁
Looks like cherry tomatoes ’bout now.
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Yes. 🙂
This reminds me of the ’77 movie, Goodbye Girl: ‘Goodbye doesn’t mean forever, goodbye doesn’t mean we’ll never be together again…’
Great photos!
They are Early Girl tomatoes and the new ones will be too. 🙂
A year is a good run!
Yes, we’re impressed. 🙂
They still look so much better than what we find in the store. A whole year’s worth – amazing!!!
Yes. 🙂
Judy just planted a new tomato plant today.
Let us know how it goes. There are no guarantees we’ll have the same luck next year.
yep a year is seems like a good run for your money – but yep, Andy needs more seeds and plants …
when I saw the title of your post, I started thinking of all the things I own, have owned for many decades and wondered if it was something like that…
🙂
They probably have good flavor. So many veggies are “designed” to look good, last long for shipping, but cease to have any flavor, I think. Has certainly been true of strawberries — as I recall the only really large Sequoias from years ago that were so deliciously sweet.
I agree with you about strawberries. 🙁
I’ve never had a tomato plant last more than the season so I had no idea they would just produce smaller tomatoes.
This was our first experience too. It’s neat.
I always thought tomato plants lasted forever. I didn’t realise one year was the usual lifespan. Strange that something officially classified as a fruit is always used as a vegetable.
From the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Now, nutritionally, the term “fruit” is used to describe sweet and fleshy botanical fruits, and “vegetable” is used to indicate a wide variety of plant parts that are not so high in fructose. In many cultures, vegetables tend to be served as part of the main dish or side, whereas sweet fruits are typically snacks or desserts. Thus, roots, tubers, stems, flower buds, leaves, and certain botanical fruits, including green beans, pumpkins, and of course tomatoes, are all considered vegetables by nutritionists. There is no hard-and-fast rule that clearly designates a botanical fruit as a vegetable, but, given that tomatoes are generally not used in desserts and are closely related to other fruit-vegetables (e.g., eggplants and peppers), it is not too counterintuitive for tomatoes to be classified as vegetables.
Apparently zucchini is a fruit too. I knew about tomatoes, but not zucchinis and green beans.
they still look good to me and I tried to pick one, because today at Walmart they had NO tomatoes, very few and they were all dead. empty shelves in the produce which is scary. buy those seeds you may have to feed your blog friends
😀 That is scary about Walmart. Andy buys Roma tomatoes and has one in his sandwich every day. Mostly our store has them.
You sure got your money’s worth from these plants!
Yes! 🙂
even though they’re small they still look so healthy and just Good!
is the taste still good? maybe they are going to rest.
everything has cycles of growth!
They still taste good, but they’re not designed to last forever. We’re amazed they produced as long as they did.