I can’t believe how I’ve been dragging on getting my tomatoes started. Luckily they grow very fast in hot weather, so it’s not like I’m not going to be able to get a nice crop or anything. I sowed a bunch in late February indoors in newspaper pots, then moved them to the front porch in March. Of course we had a not-unexpected frost…I bought in my spinach and green beans and some other starts but for some reason I left the tomatoes on the porch. I had the idea that since the seeds hadn’t even sprouted yet that they would stay dormant until the weather warmed up; they wouldn’t be affected by the frost. Wrong! Only a few sprouted when the weather turned and most of them died. I only have one lonely little tomato baby.

So I’m doing re-starting more tomato seeds tonight. I am doing heirloom big ones and the little tiny ones; I can’t recall the exact names right now (I think the big ones I got are beefsteak). I guess I could just go get some tomato plants, but last year my mother-in-law and some other people I know bought plants and only ended up with a few tomatoes! While I had a ton. So I am just going to stick with growing them from seed. This is a pic of the very very last of the ones I had from last year, I had tomatoes up until fall, it was crazy!

Some interesting tomato info:
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum (syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum), formerly Lycopersicon esculentum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant, is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a perennial plant, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual plant, typically reaching to 1–3 m (3 to 10 feet) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

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