Tuesday I decided to pot up the early tomato I started Feb 16th. This is the tomato I started early in hopes of getting it to produce tomatoes by the first week of June. I must say I am rather confident that I will be harvesting tomatoes by late May/early June from this plant because it is growing great. I chose the large pot so I can start placing it outside on warm days and I will not have to be concerned with it blowing over or drying out to fast. The coldframe has been running at an average temp of 25c(77f) when the sun is strong. With these temps I am going to start placing the tomato plant in the frame during the day and then bring it in at night, weather permitting of course.
Here is a photo of the root ball. Nothing to complain about here.
Here it is potted up and getting a deep drink of warm water & Wegener's Organic fertilizer.Well I was outside potting up the tomato I came across the first bloom of spring in the yard. These photos are of the Iris reticulata that I photographed a few posts ago just emerging from the soil.
I took this Tuesday when the flower first came up.
This one I took today, Thursday, when it unfurled after the rain we had.
I will end by noting about my mutated tomato. A few weeks ago I was reading about a seedling that produced 3 cotyledon leaves(seed leaves) on Vegetable Heaven's blog. I found this very interest as many of you know seedlings normally only develop one cotyledon in monocots or two cotyledons in dicots. Then last Wednesday I went to check my tomato seedlings and was very surprised to find that one of my tomato seedlings also formed 3 cotyledon leaves. The tomato is 'Beauty King' from Wild Boar Farms and I received the seed in a trade with Judy's SFG. It will be very interesting to watch this tomato develop.
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