Day 1 - Measuring Cherry Tomato Plants

After a long and grueling day of working all over the Inland Empire, I finally made it home in time to take some pictures of my tiny tomato plants before the sun went down.

Let's start with Super Sweet 100 #2!

This is my Super Sweet 100 (#2) cherry tomato plant.  The plant vine is probably about 7 inches long, but it doesn't stand straight up, it sort of leans along the ground.  This probably means that staking will be necessary at some point in time.
I've been playing around with the iPhone app, Camera +.  There are several neat ways to edit photos in this application.  The lighting wasn't that great by sunset, so I brightened it up a little bit by using the "Night" feature.  I think there were 18 different border options, so I tried to do have a unique frame with each photo.  And there's even a caption option, which I used to show this website's address.  Fun!

Above we have Super Sweet 100 (#1) cherry tomato plant.  This little guy has a bit more stem strength than Sweet 100 (#2).  He is an indoor plant so far and is happily bathing in the light from the Aerogarden.  He appears to be about 9 inches tall.  I couldn't fit my yardstick under the lightbulb contraption, so I found one of those IKEA paper rulers which did the job very well.

Now I'd like to introduce my Husky Red cherry tomato plant.  This little one is short and stocky at only 6 inches tall, but he's beautiful in his own way.  The foliage is robust and dark green.  He just looks very healthy to me.  I hope he rewards my praises with some delicious cherry tomatoes.

And finally, let me introduce my problem child, the Early Girl tomato plant.  I have a feeling the two of us will have a rocky gardener-plant relationship.  First of all, it only took about 24 hours from potting, for the leaves to start turning a crispy yellow.  My only conclusion is that we must have damaged some roots during the potting process.  I think Home Depot has a return policy for plants - although I'm not 100% sure if it's 30 days or 60 days.  Either way, I know I should probably return it and get a better one, but I feel like I can fix her.  Maybe.  We'll see if she manages to grow taller than 6 inches.

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope one day I'll be able to share photos of some actual tomatoes!