👆🍅 I had to pick some of the large ones because they were weighing down the plants too much. I underestimated them to grow so big so fast. I didn’t have the support structures ready.
Tomatoes are coming in! 🍅✨
The neighboring gardener gave us some heirloom tomato seedlings, and the grape tomatoes were grown from the seeds of the supermarket ones we’ve been eating! They’re all growing wild this summer. Tomatoes love it hot n dry!
Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around 9 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Cell. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/01/world/science-health/potato-tomato-heritage-study/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #potatoes #tomatoes #genetics #evolution

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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