Woe is my tomato

Savvy readers will recall that I thought I was going to have a bumper crop of beans in my little garden plot. Sadly - that is not the case. I've gotten about a handful out of them (and Dave's already eaten them), but it doesn't look like I'm going to be getting many more.

What I am going to be overrun with, is cherry tomatoes. When they really started to grow, I tied them up to three foot tall bamboo stakes. I went out there after I got home from Virginia to discover that those stakes weren't nearly long enough... so a few six foot stakes later, and the tomatoes were happy again!

Yep - those tomato plants are more than five feet tall. (and they are also planted way too close together - lesson learned for next year!). I had no idea they'd get so big. And they are absolutely covered in little green tomatoes - right from top to bottom. (There are four plants in total - that's a lot of tomatoes!)

But then the storm hit.... you see, I think the weather in Virginia hitch a ride home with us. Since we got back, it's been disgustingly hot and humid - the kind of humid that stretches on for days and nights, and just breeds bad storms. And that storm came last night - high winds, torrential rain....and while it was great for cooling off the atmosphere...

It was not so good for my poor tomatoes....

Now I shouldn't complain. We were under a tornado watch, and some people lost trees... but when I looked out and saw my poor tomatoes on the ground, I almost cried. (And I don't even like tomatoes - most of these will be given to friends and family.)

But it was not as bad as it looked.

A few broken stems, and a few lost tomatoes. Otherwise, I just put the stakes back in the ground and stood them right back up.

 Ah... happy tomatoes!

And in a few days, I can start harvesting!