March 28, No Kings Day Harvest. Indoor Garage Tomatoes continue to delight.
While we await outdoor Heirloom Slicers of early summer. The plants are all set out, caged, or hung up & all are setting fruit, daily. Future yum.
Meanwhile, March 28th, the indoor tomatoes are beginning to ripen …
February 25, 2026
After thinking the final freeze of the spring had happened on the 24th, 2 Sungolds were replaced and were joined by a Purple Bumblebee Tomatoes, which are the purple version of Sungolds, allegedly.
The Sungolds were more than ready; fruit continued to set without interruption, after transplanting.
Both varieties and all of the heirlooms planted out were covered for the near freeze/light frost of March 15th. All survived without damage.
January 14, 2026
We put the first 2 tomato plants of 2026 into the outdoor raised beds here.
[NB: This planting out on January 14 2026 failed in the hard freeze on January 27th.]
Sungold, of course.
They will be under “cloches” when they need to be, so we’ll see how well the management of that goes until after the last frost passes …. stay tuned.
The real excitement now is that our indoor tomatoes are beginning to flower. Purple Bumblebees. Compact indeterminate. Should make a bush full of suckers, 2 feet tall max, indoors under lights. No telling how long one plant might produce. I hope to find out.
More & different indoor tomato starts are ready to be up potted. Outdoor starts are just sprouting.
Meanwhile we also have micro greens coming out of the same 3 shelf hydroponic sprouting system set up.
We should soon have fresh homegrown tomatoes & salad greens
in Central Texas, every day, year round.
And, it will have only taken me 5 years to sort it all out.
( And, it’s all practically free. 😉 )
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