I wrote this summer about my (mis)adventures in balcony gardening. Even though it's technically fall now, balcony gardening season has continued, courtesy of the unseasonably warm weather we've been having. In my opinion, this is really the only upside to the weather at this point. This summer was a challenging time for me, and I'm anxious to put it completely behind me and move on to fall.
However, the upside of continued balcony gardening has its own very specific upside. I finally have tomatoes! After a string of cherry tomato plants inexplicably died over the summer, I tried a beefsteak tomato plant. It stayed alive, but it took a while before it did anything else, like grow taller or blossom. However, now it's huge and full of green tomatoes! Just in time for a first frost (if the weather were a little more fall-like)!
Eventually, three of them ripened, so I'm happy that we got to enjoy at least a few tomatoes from our plant. At this point, I'll either be stuck with an extra long summer that refuses to move on (but plenty of ripe tomatoes!), or I'll get my wish for fall weather and learn to embrace fried green tomatoes.
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