It’s always a thrill when I see the first fruit or veggie of the season and this year is our first backyard vegetable garden so we are excited about every little thing.

Today was no different when I saw the first tomato forming on one of our tomato plants. It was one that we had in a container but thought it would do better in the ground in our backyard garden.

It’s about 3 feet high now and was kind of top heavy so we put it in a cage and tried to give it some support. I wasn’t 100% how close to 3 feet it was so I just went back out and measured. It’s almost exactly 3 feet tall, great guess.

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All my other tomatoes are still only just over a foot high but then again all my tomato plants are different varieties so I am not quite sure what to expect.

tomatoHere is a picture of my first little tomato that’s started. Don’t laugh, it’s kind of hard to see but it’s there.

I probably would have had more by this point but I didn’t notice that one of the branches was not in the cage and when I tried to slowly bend it thinking it would bend enough for me to put it inside the cage I broke it right off.

I lost about a foot. I think I swore out loud so if you heard me I do apologize for that.

We have 5 varieties of tomatoes this year and I put them all in the ground rather than in containers. We did well with containers last year but because we started our first garden this year I wanted the tomatoes in the garden.

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