Well, I picked it!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63640)
United States
June 3, 2008 4:59pm CST
I've been watching a tomato grow at my client's place for about a month. I didn't want to tell her in case something happened to it before it got ripe.
Today I fixed her a tomato & bread dish that she likes and that made me think of the little fruit on the vine.
When I had looked at it last week it was still green, but today it was red/orange!
Fearing the birds or bugs would find it, I picked it!
Now, these are plants I planted last summer and nursed thru the winter so I was surprised when they actually put out a few flowers this spring! And then one actually took!
So, now the little tomato is in her fridge. Granted, its only about an inch across, but she didn't pay for it!
And remember, I have a black thumb, this is the first time I've actually managed to do something like this.
So, I know a bunch of you garden, but what was your first fruit?
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13 responses
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
4 Jun 08
Wild strawberries would be my first fruit. First veggie was radishes. Those are the two things we usually start young'ins on up here.
Glad your thumb is starting to get red.
My husband loves green tomatoes. Fried green tomatoes just makes his day.
@ElicBxn (63640)
• United States
4 Jun 08
Yeah, this tomato dish could be made with green tomatos, but I just had a couple in the fridge going bad and a can of whole ones that I used to fix this dish. Some onions, lots of spices and a couple of slices of bread, and the client is HAPPY!
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
1 Nov 08
Thanks for best response. Keep on cooking, who knows, you might get interested in cooking, yet. Take care
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
4 Jun 08
We usually put out a garden every year and we always have to plant tomatoes. My husband and I love fresh tomatoes. I think that is about the first fruit we ever planted also. Some years the plants produce very well and other years not. We moved our garden area this year and seems to be doing very well. We don't have any fruit on the vines yet but quite a few blooms.
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@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
4 Jun 08
I've been picking strawberries for the past few days so that is my first fruit of the season. I have 2 cherry tomatoes on the vine that are almost red so I'll be picking those in a day or 2.
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@ElicBxn (63640)
• United States
4 Jun 08
Yeah, this is the size of a cherry tomato. It came in this cute little container with a tiny dried plug of dirt and a little pot. Needless to say, I didn't use the pot, I put it in her big pot outside.
I water it M,W,F if it hasn't rained, like lately.
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@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
3 Jun 08
I am not a gardener either and I can't remember what the first thing was that I grew or tried to grow but I do love fresh off the vine tomatoes. My son has grown those really big ones before those that take one slice to cover a hamburger or sandwich. Oh he has grown others too, he is the one around here with a green thumb.
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@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
5 Jul 08
There is nothing like home grown fruit and veggies. I'd have a huge plot if I could, but time doesn't allow these days. I don't even seem to be able to look after my cacti very well! lol.
Many years ago, when still in high school, I had my own veggie plot. The first thing to be harvested was some rather warm peppers. They were so good, but I should have know that they were going to be hot! Still, I like spicy foods so didn't mind too much!
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@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
16 Jul 08
Yeah, what happened about the e.coli out break in tomatoes? I have to wonder how some people stored them, because we didn't have that problem in Australia at all, and I've never heard of it happening with freshly picked veggies! lol.
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@mcat19 (1357)
• United States
3 Jun 08
I have 10 black thumbs. I had a garden in my old house. We had squash as big as baseball bats. I have a pix of my daughter lying next to it on the porch. It was the same size as she was. We also grew tomatoes, but there were either too few or too many. The squash were the best. No one liked it but me. We also had some corn and ate it raw. The rabbits got the carrots.
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@gberlin (3836)
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6 Jun 08
Well in Michigan, things have not started to sprout yet. Especially tomatoes. Strawberries are almost ready and asparagus is out but I did not plant either one of those. Acually, I did not plant anything this year. My mother-in-law wanted a small garden and she has a raised garden bed that is 4 feet wide and 20 feet long. My wife planted some tomatoes, peppers, and 3 variety of squash.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
7 Jun 08
I only wish I could grow, the only then I can grow is mold and fungus,
I can grow plants at all.
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
4 Jun 08
Well that sounds good. I have a tomato that grew from one I planted last year but somehow it grew up in a place I did not expect. I guess a bird must have planted it. It is so hot here and we have not had any rain. I hope it will produce.
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
4 Jun 08
wow! That's good. Mine is about 6 inches tall now and I am very excited to harvest their fruits and the veggies..LOL, this is my first time to have my own garden, I use to help mom but the feeling is different when it is really your own!THe effort and time you have invested for sure will be paid off once they will bear good fruits and veggies!
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@GreenMoo (11833)
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4 Jun 08
I have a big veggie garden and grow most of our own produce for at least part of the year.
However, last year I discovered that some tomato seeds had obviously fallen up near the top fo the village as there was a little cluster of tomato plants growing. Well ocassionally i'd take them a bottle of water up, and I loved and tended them, then one day discovered that someone else had picked every single one of the tomatos!!
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@jer31558 (3683)
• United States
4 Jun 08
I usually plant tomatoes but only a couple of plants a year, just so I can have a fresh tomato from time to time. That is pretty much the only vegetable I ever try and grow. I don't have an area to plant a garden so a couple of plants if the limit.
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@aplaza (630)
• Netherlands
4 Jun 08
Once a lived at a place that had a berry bush in the garden. When they were ripe the berries would drop off the bush and leave a wad of pits unless you picked them first. Some of my friends came around once and it was really, really hot. They decided that they'd throw a mattress outside and sleep "in the wild". I gave them a lightweight duvet cover just to be able to cover up. Well I never did get the berry stains out of it no matter how much I washed and bleached it. And they had a berry, berry good time.
