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Ripe

My first tomato finally is ripe and ready for picking.  Here are some pictures from my first attempt to grow tomatoes in containers on my patio.  It was so much fun and I'll probably be harvesting another dozen or so tomatoes before the season ends.  I did not purchase my plants until the first week of July so I am pretty pleased with the results.

I bought fancy wire supports for my tomato plants, but my tomatoes had already grown too big for me to stick the supports in the soil, so I cut the elastic cuff off of a discarded sock and used it to tie my tomatoes to a yardstick. As they say, 'necessity is the mother of invention.'