Worth the Effort

My dad has always said that the goal is to have tomatoes by July 4th and of course it rarely ever happens, if you buy your plants from the store that is. I started my tomatoes from seed in our basement the first week of March. By the first week of April they were in the ground, a solid month before our last date of frost. During that time we had two frost scares that had me outside covering 2000 square feet of tomatoes with plastic.

Yesterday, June 23rd, I picked two ripe tomatoes. My dad, who got his plants from me, picked his first tomato a week before I picked these. We wont have enough for market but once they start coming on they come quick. Hopefully we will have them for next week... fingers crossed.