first tomato of the season

[paulf]

On May 5, twenty tomato plants were stuck into the soil in my garden. Due to fluctuating weather conditions this spring not much has happened until the first of June when most everything began to show signs that there would be a garden this year. All twenty tomato seedlings were about 8-10 inches tall when they were planted. On June 10 almost all were between two and three feet tall and buds were beginning to form. One guy, Zeke Dishman, an eighty day tomato popped out a little fruit. Today, June 15 it is about marble sized. Zeke is getting ahead of himself and I am going to let it grow just to see how early it will be.

The 2020 growing season has begun.

[pepperhead212]

I was surprised to see a tomato setting on Prime Rib, on 6-5, before I even saw any cherries!
First tomato set, 6-5 Prime Rib. I have not even seen seen any cherrys yet. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

However, those haven't grown much, and a week later, I saw this, much larger one, about 2½":
Big Beef - not the first to blossom, but has surpassed the others. Still none ripe, but it seems ahead of other years. 6-12 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The cherries will probably still be first to ripen (I never count them as my "first tomato"), though they are behind their usual rate. I think they were the worst affected by that cold snap we had, which didn't seem to bother many others.