Today was the day to pick our only red tomato so far. It has
been growing in the bottom branches of the plant and finally had gotten ripe enough
to pick. When I plucked it off, I had to laugh at it. On the side we couldn’t
see it has a funny “nose.” I took a few pictures and then decided to enhance it
a bit and took some more.
I don’t even remember what kind of tomato it is except that
we selected it because it was an early maturing variety, which comes in handy around
here where we can get an early frost. This one plant in a container (so we can
rescue it quickly in case of hail) sits on the patio and is our entire
vegetable garden. We do water it twice a day and fertilize it with Miracle Grow like good growers.
So I Googled “nose on tomato” or something like that and
found this site and pictures of other mutant tomatoes! It is caused by an early
mutation probably caused by temperature fluctuations. Click on this website for
more information. Nature is fascinating!
We plan on having BLT sandwiches tonight!
Looks aside, it was great to have a tomato with Flavor! We have many more (albeit smaller) tomatoes left on the plant - it will be a race between ripening and the first frost. Based on the prevailing weather patterns this summer, I'm betting on a bumper crop in this particular "garden."
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