Global warming is all about me.

[lilacsigil]

Today I picked 71 tomatoes from our garden, over a month after they should have all died off. One of the plants is still blossoming! To be fair, that plant has been feral since we planted it - it was meant to be about a metre high and is instead a 3.5 metre monster, with great tendrils going everywhere despite our attempts to tie them back, first to a stake and then to a tree. I certainly look forward to the pizza we're going to make with some of those tomatoes tonight, but I'm glad that Autumn seems to be raining on us properly, today. 26 degrees (30 degrees in Melbourne) in April is ridiculous and record-breaking!

Link of interest: torachan is running Transfic Mini-Fest as part of three_weeks_for_dw, and is taking prompts now. It's a very free-and-easy fest, so if you've had a tiny little plot bunny niggling at you about a trans and/or genderqueer character, this is the place to drop off your bunny!

Comments

[torachan]

Wow, that's a lot of tomatoes!

We tried growing some last year, but it was really disappointing. The plants grew really well, but had hardly any tomatoes, and the ones they did have were all really tiny (cherry tomato-sized for what were supposed to be regular-sized ones). I do want to try again this year, though.

[lilacsigil]

The tomato plants have been producing like crazy since late January, but I'm amazed to be getting this many, this late. According to our elderly customers, if you fertilise the plant too much before any tomatoes grow, it grows lots of leaves and stems and not many tomatoes - maybe that was the problem with yours last year?

[torachan]

That could be, yeah.

[senmut]

Wow. That is awesome.

+laughs+

I remember the summer we discovered Miracle*Gro. My grandmother's tomato plants went truly wild, taller than us kids, and just absolutely nuts about producing fruit the size of grapefruits.

[lilacsigil]

I don't know if I could cope with a grapefruit-sized tomato!