#tomatos

[garfieldstim]

forever howlong(bcnr) board 🥫

x x x / x x x / x x x

[munchymunchkin]

[myslices]

Rocco’s Tavern in Studio City gets all the stars 🤩

[theambivalentagender]

Back a little over a year ago I decided to start growing a tomato plant on my porch to hell my mental health while unemployed. Now I didn't know you were supposed to trim shoots off of tomato plants regularly, and after a few rainstorms came through the plant overtook the flimsy stakes I'd placed and grew to madness.

I finally trimmed the hell out of it and reworked the stakes, then eventually found a proper tomato cage to contain it.

But I was looking at it today and found this:

It looks like one of the thicker sections of it got twisted nearly off a long while ago. You'd think a break like that would kill the entire branch, but i followed it up and

This is just one of several new offshoots from this branch.

And on the one hand this fills me with a nice fuzzy feeling and my human brain is making this a while metaphor for how you can keep growing anew even after severe trauma further back in your timeline or whatever...

But I'm also in awe and slight terror of tomato plants in general now, or maybe just this specific one. This isn't the first time this tomato plant has recovered and grown branches in seemingly impossible ways. This thing survived getting stuffed in my car for a week when we had construction.

Hell, I ended up saving the shoots I'd pruned off it and trying rooting hormone on them, expecting to get maybe one or two successes. Now I have fifteen Idiot Tomato Sons on my porch growing strong and I have no idea what to do from here.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

I appreciate a tomato for what it can do rather than for what it is. Maybe I'm the problem.

[pane-bistecca]

https://pane-bistecca.com/2025/02/01/tortellini-spiesschen-mit-sauerrahm-pesto-dip/

[therecipelibrary]

Candied Tomatos

-Idle Hour Cook Book

[assassinmosseye]

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[garfieldstim]

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[sangithaskitchen]

Tomatos grow them!

[foodweate]

@인왕별장

[tomatoesonthevine]

tomatoes

[ramyeongif]

tomatos

[maryjaneszombies-blog]

Happy Food day! 🍂

[punkgardener]

what plant has given you the most surprising challenges when you decided to grow it?

Ooh this is a tough question, thanks for the ask!

In terms of stuff that just plain old didn't grow I'd say it'd have to be the Ground Cherries I tried to plant, I started it too late in the season and then went on vacation so they just never popped up!

The most surprising challenge I had was with my tomatoes, this year they've been getting absolutely decimated by one pest after the next, first aphids, then and still hornworms, and now army worms have seen to destroying half my yield. They went after mostly my super common Delicious Tomatoes and stayed off the varieties that I got at a local plant sale for the most part. The delicious tomatoes are also really susceptible to splitting after rain meanwhile my pimp and bumblebee seem to do alright with it. I think delicious tomatoes are definitely a variety I'm avoiding next year because of all the issues and I know there's better stuff suited to my climate.

Thank you so much for the ask anon!!!