Tomato Forest

Here we are and it's May already. Summer is sneaking up on us, today's hailstorm notwithstanding. I'd like to have tomatoes out in the garden by the 4th week of the month, so it is nice to see that these starts are coming along.

Some are "early varieties" with an estimated 55 days to fruiting but a few of these plants are a little confused and keep trying to flower prematurely, so bud trimming has become a daily event.

Today I did the third and final transplant, these now being the biggest pots I can fit indoors, and it was an opportunity to trim back some lower leaves and plant the starts up to their necks in soil to encourage development of a more robust root bundle.