tomato plants

My cherry tomato plants have finally got big enough to flower. They look so nice and healthy (but it's hard to get a picture, with all the other plants in background!)

 Here's a little bug doing a pollination job.

Sadly, on the other side of the garden, the heirloom plants aren't doing so well. Well, at least the volunteer ones. Although they're the biggest, and already have green fruit growing! they've got blight.

I remember now, last year's plants had late blight, in the fall. I didn't know what it was and just kept pulling the ugly leaves off and eating the fruit regardless. But now I've learned that it is caused by a fungus that lives in the soil, so the volunteers that came up in that same spot probably caught it. And now they have it over here. Good reason not to keep the volunteers....

I keep snapping off the lower limbs where the leaves are looking yucky, but afraid it's just going to keep spreading. Very careful to throw the sick leaves in the trash, not compost.