Plum Tom Progress

Back in early May, when I planted my tomatoes outdoors, I wrote a distinctly pessimistic note about their prospects; suggesting that, as the prima donnas of the vegetable world, and whatever their early promise, they would inevitably prove a disheartening disappointment.

Well, inevitably, this year they are really going to town on me in prolonging the agony of awaiting their demise.  Not a single plant has died, so my usual rabid over-planting has resulted not in an ever-thinning collection of wilting individuals  but in a thick hedge bursting with sturdy health

 

while every truss of flowers has set and the branches are groaning with beautiful green plum tomatoes

It's not too late for their Italian treachery though!  Just when the weather needs to stay dry and warm it threatens to turn cold and wet; while the dense hedge they've made of themselves by not dying off in their usual hypochondriac fashion means that the slightest rot or blight is going to spread like viral wildfire.

We shall see ... I still back the Eeyore view