Last calendar month , I wrote about theaccidental tomatoesgrowing in the lower grounds with wild unconstraint . No amount of pruning could cultivate those billowy animate being , so I moderately much gave up after the first hour . I also give up on trying to fertilize them , as they had grown so massively , the Medusa - like tangle of branch and leaves had dead engulfed the reason .
Mulchingwas unneeded . Watering was a plot of pelt - and - seek . I even forget to irrigate one week … or maybe it was two . And were there really only three plant in there ? I swear it wait like I ’ve got triple that last on .
After continuing to semi - neglect my rogue tomatoes these last few week , this is what they front like now .
My piffling monster are all spring up up . Messy . Unkempt . And slinging armful of sweet , racy tomato crack .
Every time I go forage for tomato , I experience like I ’m entering the Amazon . I need to be fortify with a machete and a GPS unit — especially when I ’m crawling through the clingy , shaggy-coated mass to convey those dangle - in - the - middle - of - nowhere tomato plant .
The tomato monsters have completely overtaken the lower yard and are near to overrunning my new pineapple patch . We had to stake a few metallic element cages above the tomatoes for the arm to climb up and over .
I measured one ramification to be over 10 feet long , sprawling along the ground with a retribution … no signs of stopping and we ’re only in July . It ’s almost like the movieThe Ruins … the vines start to take on a life of their own , overtake the farmlette , and use up any incapacitated being that comes upon them .
At least we ’ll be well - fed before any of that happen though . Clusters of large cherry tomatoes are growing everywhere , hanging on leg in all stages of ripeness . Every time I strip back what I reckon is just idle foliage , I tally a remuneration load of delicious red goodness wallowing in the poop .
And my favorite thing about them ? After I ’ve filled up basketfuls of yield , I come out of the jungle — clothes , tomentum , hands — smelling like fresh summer tomatoes .
