The End Is Near

Well, it's only 10 days until the average first frost date here in Missouri.  I've looked at the 10-day weather forecast, and it is looking like it may come a little sooner than that.  I have lots of little green half-grown tomatoes that I was really hoping to harvest, but this cool weather has been slowing the growth by a lot.  Since they are in containers, I'm thinking of bringing them in and putting them under a grow light to see if I can harvest some tomatoes this winter!  That would be fun.  I guess it's worth a try since there is really nothing to lose.

When I was inspecting my tomatoes this morning, I came upon this little guy.  I've never seen one before, but I'm assuming this is a tomato hornworm.  He's kind of cute, actually.

Tomatoes From Seed

I started some tomatoes from seed on July 5th.  From what I have read, that is probably too late in my area, but I decided to go ahead and let them grow as long as possible anyway.  The way our weather has been, we will probably have an early frost this year.

I had the tomatoes growing in homemade newspaper pots until a couple of weeks ago.  I transplanted them to 5-gallon containers.  They have really taken off since then.

There is exactly 30 days between these photos.  The first was taken on August 3rd.  The second was taken September 3rd.  Amazing!  These are Better Boys.