There may be fresh cherry tomatoes for us just around the corner.  We have three cherry tomato plants in a grow tent in the office basement which have overcome the unexpected shock of being relocated from my home basement into the grow tent.  You can see the post about that earlier in this blog.

After watching a few cycles of flowers blooming and then fading on these growing tomato plants, it dawned on me that I have to do the bees work while growing inside!  A few shakes here.  A few shakes there.  Taking one cluster of flowers and pressing them against others.  With no bees to help, I had to hand pollinate them in order to get to the next stage.

And ladies and gentlemen … without further adieu … the start of our indoor tomatoes!

Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

Not every experiment meets with success, but failure is an incredible teacher.  It is with sadness that I report the first indoor cucumber growing experiment is over and met with barely mild success.  So I’m happy!!

My best guess at this moment is that we experienced some root rot.  Although I am keeping some heat in that area, it was probably kept below optimal growth temperatures.  Additionally they had dried out over a long holiday weekend, and I had since started over compensating with over watering.  Between the cooler temps and the over watering, the cucumbers plants were not able to take up the water and I fear this is what caused their death.

Better luck next time (because that’s what experiments are all about)!  And we did get to eat one little itsy bitsy cucumber.