Every year I plant a tomato plant or two. It is as close to the garden of my youth as I think I want to get. While I love fresh from the garden corn, peas and green beans, I don't like all the work that goes into a garden. But, I do enjoy a fresh bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. So, I put out tomato plants.
This year I put out two. One of them is a normal sized tomato plant. The other one has turned into a tree. It is more than 5 1/2 feet tall and about 5 feet wide. I have four stakes holding it up. It might actually be taller, but I ran out of anything tall enough to stake it to. So, the top part is now drooping down.
I have no idea what kind of tomato plant I bought. I think it was just a regular plant that was supposed to produced normal sized tomatoes. Somehow it turned into a giant. One of my relatives who is more farm savvy than I am said it is a rouge tomato plant and that I should have pruned it back so that it spent its time growing tomatoes and not growing tall. But, I was so fascinated by its growth that I couldn't do that. So, I have a really tall tomato plant producing tomatoes that are smaller than golf balls. They still taste good though. But, it sure does take a lot of them to make a BLT.
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