My sweet friend Romy gave me a Garden-In-A-Bag Mini-Tomato kit for my birthday last winter. I planted the seeds after being away for a week in June. The instructions said the seeds would take a week or so to germinate and then another sixty days until the tomatoes were ripe. This little plant germinated on time and grew to two inches tall by mid-July.
Then the growing paused.
I kept it fed, watered and in the sun but the plant stubbornly stayed two inches tall. It did not start growing again until the end of August. By the end of September the plant was 9-10 inches high. A tiny flower emerged and soon thereafter a mini-mini-tomato started growing. A couple of days ago the tomato began taking on an orange tint. This weekend I'm going to buy a very small head of lettuce and make a salad!
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