Savage Garden: it’s raining, it’s pouring

Well, despite the recent weather wrecking any number of neat goings-on, at least something’s digging it: my vegetable garden. Over the past week or so, my tomatoes have gotten almost distressingly huge.

Mid-May

Beginning of June

Mid-June: Oh god somebody help me

So here’s an important gardening noob lesson I was not aware of when I went to buy tomato plants: the difference between determinate and indeterminate. I have two indeterminates and one determinate going on in my containers.

In a nutshell, determinate tomatoes will stop growing when they reach a certain size, generally around 2-3 feet tall. Indeterminate tomatoes do not stop growing, no matter how much you beg and plead and tell them they’re getting out of hand. All tomatoes started off as indeterminate, but somebody realized a natural mutation might be pretty useful and kept it going, leaving us with the convenient smaller-size plants.

But whatever, I’ve just got to figure out a way to keep these suckers from tipping over as they get even larger. I do have seven little baby tomatoes, though!