First tomato fruit!
It’s here! The first little green nubbin’ of a tomato. Actually, there were two, and I couldn’t resist picking one and taking a bite. It was bitter. What can I say, I’m tactile-kinesthetic. And orally fixated.
I have both determinate (bush-type) and indeterminate (viney-type) tomatoes. This season, my first in this garden, I’m experimenting with the indeterminate type. (What’s the difference?)
Steve Solomon says in his book “Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades” that you can grow indeterminate vines that are 8 feet or more in length, trailing up an over a tall trellis or support system. To do this, I’m following his suggestion to trim off all but two (I’m doing three) main leader vines on this plant. It is the one pictured, the first to produce fruit. Not sure if the first fruit is because of the method of snipping all but 3 leader vines, or if it’s the variety (yellow pear).
I’ll do a subsequent post that shows my vine support system — an “A” frame support and twine.
My goal is to get these vines 7-8 feet long, to go up and over my trellis support. Has anybody had similar luck getting long, productive indeterminate tomato varieties?
