Tomato Patch
I don’t even know how this picture happened, there is so much sunshine in the vegetable garden that getting such a dramatic shadow effect seems almost impossible. Sometimes the camera adds its own magic.
As always, the tomato plants grew out of control, right on schedule, like they do every August, they are so predictable! I thought the cages would keep them tidy and contained this year, but no such luck, they engulfed their supports, bent them to their will and are now on their way to swallowing up the rest of the universe.
In the garden there is nothing more relentless than a tomato plant; it will grow where you don’t want it, it will grow three times larger than expected where you do, and then evolveinto a mind boggling leaf maze.
The description on the indeterminate tomato seed packets says their chords can get up to twenty feet long, and I think they said that so that the worry prone gardeners would not be unsettled by their gargantuan expansion. Sometimes I think the only reason Jack clambered a beanstalk is because he couldn’t find the tomato patch.
I just plucked a tomato plant from the petunia border, again. Everything seems to end up in the petunia border sooner or later, I just wonder how the tomatoes made it there, past a fence, two house corners and thick shrub growth.
Anyway, this year they put out spectacular foliage whose size and opulence is reminiscent of tropical plants, and some fruit, most of which is still green.
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