My Black Lady

I couldn’t have patience for the spring to come, so I started planting my tomatoes indoors. I thought that by the time they get bigger I will move them anyways in the garden, but I really needed to see green plants around me sooner, while there was still snow outside.
And now, my biggest tomato, my Black Lady, is more than one meter high. It doesn’t fit on the window sill anymore. It’s March already, I think I can move it outside.
So….I moved it outside, didn’t plant it, moved it with the pot. I didn’t pay enough attention, and while handling it, I broke it 😦 I feel so sorry for it… I tied it up with a piece of cloth. I just hope it will survive. My Black Lady is now hanging literally on a thread. It’s already outside, in full sun. I am checking it every morning and evening.
Last night it snowed 😦. And my tomatoes were all outside… I pray they didn’t freeze. I will plant them tomorrow in the garden, if the snow melts and if they still survive.
😀 three months ago I thought my Black Lady was gone – broken and frozen. Not it’s the biggets tomato in the garden, with almost two meters in height and it already has 50 fruits on it 😀
I don’t think I mentioned until now it’s a black cherry tomato plant 😀 That is why I call it my Black Lady. Today, I harvested and ate directly on the spot the first ever tomato grown in my garden: a black cherry tomato. It tastes wonderful, very sweet, like a combination between an apple, a tomato and a strawberry, with the texture of a plum. Sure, it’s not the regular and traditional tomato, but I never expected that! I planted only “weird” tomatoes, that I can’t find next door.
And by Black Lady has been a warrior all along! I am so proud of it that I won’t cut it and I tend to let it grow as big as it wants before next winter comes.
So the facts are like this, after a hot and long summer: my lady grew up to three meters and a half, gave me more than 90 small cherries, and was the center piece of my garden 🙂 So…who said tomatoes were fragile? All they need is love is carrying 😀 And sun, of course 😀