The first tomato flowers opened today! 7 days behind last year. Two varieties tied for this distinction Teensy F4 yellow cherry (both plants I'm growing opened flowers today) and Silvery Fir Tree.
The tomatoes did not like the cool, wet, cloudy stretch we had a week or so ago. Some leaf spot developed (I diagnosed as gray leaf spot, not my usual septoria)--but aggressive pruning, copper spray, and warmer weather with sunshine helped eliminate it. The tomatoes are growing nicely now.
With the cool weather the last 2 weeks I see A LOT of fused blossoms that will be opening in the coming week. Probably will be plucking those off the plants.
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