The first two tomatoes. Yes! Or, as I still use this great phrase from my years with the Cubans: al fin!
These are from one of the two Husky Red cherries I planted. An Early Girl nearby is trying to get her act together, but these two just sailed across the finish line. I found them about 30 minutes ago when I was deadheading some marigolds and looked past the border into the heart of the tomato plant.
Now it feels like summer.
***And on an absolutely irrelevant (to gardening, that is) note, "Deadheading" has a whole different meaning for those of us who are Grateful Dead/Dead fans (when Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the remaining original members agreed to not use the "Grateful" again in the band's name). Just saying. The Dead just finished off one final tour—the Final Tour—of the US to end a stunning decades-long history. Their last concerts were in San Francisco, the city where it all started, last weekend. My dear son Ben caught the Final Tour concert in Philadelphia this June; he still has the ticket in his wallet from 2003 (when he was still in high school) from the very first time he saw them. Now that's a Dead fan.
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How cool Ben got to see the Philadelphia show. I just yesterday saw about the final tour.
I was thrilled that he took that trip. He met up with a good friend from his college days and the show was just superb from what I hear. We were in Pittsburgh at the time for orchestra conference and I texted him "Pittsburgh." He texted back "Philly." Made me smile.
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