This is a different plant from the one I posted the photo of the other day. This Sugar Snack tomato had no tomatoes at all on it yesterday morning, and by yesterday evening, it had tiny tomatoes popping out all over the place … and more blooms!

I have no idea how long it takes these cherry tomatoes to ripen. I have never grown cherry tomatoes before. All I know is I am so impatient to eat one!

Grow tiny tomatoes! Grow!

When I wasn’t being bothered by Annoying Boy yesterday afternoon, I spent a good long time sitting out on the porch watching my plants grow and reading. It was a beautiful day, and I didn’t want to miss the chance to welcome each tiny tomato as it popped into existence. You may think I am joking, but I am not. Over the course of an afternoon spent on my porch, I saw tiny tomatoes popping into existence.

I’d read a chapter of my book, and then take a break from the sitting still to hover over the plants like a doting mother. Every time I did that, I noticed a new tiny tomato on one of the plants. When I noticed the first one, I thought maybe I had just not noticed it before. By the time I saw a second new tomato that hadn’t been there earlier in the day, I’d already been staring at those plants for so long, there was no mistaking the fact I was seeing a new tomato where there had been no tomato just an hour before. It was crazy!

All three Sugar Snack plants have four or more little tomatoes on them, and more flowers popping out almost as I watch. Also, Mr. Stripey just gets more and more blooms every day too. While Mr. Stripey is large enough to be getting tomatoes, I do worry that I should have removed the blooms off the Sugar Snacks to let them get a little larger first. They are all still so small. It’s a little late now. I guess whatever happens … happens.

To be honest, I have been regretting getting all those extra plants. Or rather, I have been regretting getting all those plants from the place I got them. The quality of the seedlings was somewhat poor, but I hadn’t seen the TAMU jalepenos anywhere else, and every other place was totally out of any sort of cherry tomatoes. I really didn’t need any of them though, and I should have just stuck to the original plan to have the two Earthboxes with a couple of plants in them.

It’s lucky for the potted tomatoes that the Sugar Snacks have attracted my attention with tomatoes, because all those plantings have been growing so little and looking so poorly, no matter what I do for them, I had begun considering taking them out of the pots and sticking them in the front flowerbed … to be left to their own survival devices. Then I could use those pots for something a little more productive, like the cucumbers I have yet to get started. I may still put some of those tomato plants out to pasture in the flowerbed, but they all earned another week or two of being doted on, thanks to the appearance of some tiny tomatoes.

The Best Boy plants are probably cheering on the Sugar Snacks wildly. I was very close to just ripping them out of their pots and tossing them two days ago. They refuse to grow, they continue to look awful, and I hold out little hope they will ever produce even one tomato. Since I didn’t buy them, they were extras others couldn’t use and were going to toss, I don’t have to feel guilt about abandoning them to the flowerbed or just throwing them away. I never wanted the Best Boys anyway, but it’s hard to say no to little old ladies when they want to give you something. But I am willing to give them a little more time now, thanks to the Sugar Snacks … and being too lazy to dig holes in the flowerbed and move plants. It’s hot as hell out there today.

So, aside from having an encounter with Annoying Boy, I had a blast all afternoon reading and watching my plants grow, and boy are they doing just that! I wish I could do that every afternoon, but alas, I don’t have that much leisure time. Somebody has to do the housework around here and feed the inhabitants. I do think I will plan my day tomorrow to allow for more time sitting on the porch watching plants grow and reading. It made for a wonderful day.

NOTE: It’s getting late, I am incredibly tired from goofing off most of the day watching my plants grow and puttering around the yard, I have a serious headache, and I need a shower before bed. Once again, I am not going to bother proofreading this, so if it sounds insane, it just sounds insane. I’m posting it anyway.

It’s long, so it’s going behind the cut.
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