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A little while back I told you about my summer plan: attempt to grow some cherry tomatoes on my 18th floor balcony. I think the idea started off from a lunch time conversation at work. Someone said if you have a big container you can grow tomatoes. I never even contemplated the idea before.
I live in a high rise building all the way up on the 18th floor. It can be very windy at times and I only have sun towards 3pm. Not an ideal growing condition for anything. Flowers have always been hit or miss. But at $2.50 a cherry tomato plant and a used large cat littler container what did I have to loose. Here is my update:
I got flowers and eventually a got green globes in decent quantity. But they stayed green for so long I thought they would never redden. Here above they are starting to abandon the green phase….FINALLY!
Oh I think we are actually getting somewhere here. Almost there for harvest!
BINGO! We have a ready to be plucked cherry tomato.
Here is my first harvest. I think I may get 30-40 tomatoes out of it only under the less then ideal conditions the plant has to face. And some cherry tomatoes are absolutely tiny – BUT RED. I am calling them Mini cherry tomatoes lol.
Besides a basil plant to help guard off nasty insects I have also employed soldiers to stand guard against the enemy. They work for food and don’t mind rebuilding a new home everyday. yeah I know spiders are gross but its a cool pic – taken with a LARGE zoom.
Happy Harvest everyone
I’m growing cherry tomatoes in my apartment too…. but I don’t have a balcony, so they are actually inside the apartment. So Far I have a bunch of tiny yellow flowers, but I’m guessing those will be the stems and the tomatoes will sprout from there…. great job on your harvest!
Good for you, Sis! I look forward to trying some in a couple of weeks.
This might be easy enough for me to try it on my balcony next year.
@Dana, wow indoor eh, courageous. Yes where the yellow flowers are is the future location of the fruit.
@Susan totally Sis you should do it next year!
How exciting! Your patience was rewarded and these are just adorable! Definitely worth the investment.
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Oh Evelyne I’m so incredibly excited for you.
You challenged yourself and highly succeeded…BRAVA!!!
They’re just too adorable to eat ;o)
Ciao bella,
Claudia
How exciting! They are so cute and remind me of tomberries (tiny red tomatoes) that I had in Ireland.
omg omg spider eek! It made me forget all about your pretty tomatoes.