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Homegrown tomatoes

This summer I've pledged to grow some tomatoes on my balcony. I'm not really an experienced gardener, so I can't say I really know what I'm doing. So I initially bought a Sungold cherry tomato plant (supposed to be very good) and put it in a standard herb pot. I later learned this was a mistake, and I should have put it in a big pot with a lot of soil. But it did well. I was encouraged, and so bought an heirloom striped pineapple tomato plant, and put it in a huge pot. But this one didn't do so well. It grew, but not too fast. The problem was that the soil did not retain water very well, it seemed to just flow through the soil and wind up below the pot. I've heard I should mulch, but I haven't had time yet to buy some. A third tomato plant was given to us by our friend Monica, who has several more at home.

That was all a month or two ago. Now the Sungold plant is doing well, but I now realize that there's no way I can use those for a recipe, since only one or two cherry tomatoes are ripe at any particular time. So they are pretty much just for tasting. I did taste one ripe one, and it was very delicious. Very sweet. If I had to do it again, I probably would buy four or five of those plants. My tomato plant that Monica gave us is doing well, with about 8 or so tomatoes on it, but nothing is ripe yet. My Striped Pineapple tomato plant is doing OK. There's no tomatoes yet, but there are some flowers that should yield a few tomatoes. All I ask for is a few.