Ripening Cherry Tomatoes Perfect for Harvesting

At last my cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen and many of them are red enough to pick to make this the first harvest of 2016.  I think I could have picked them yesterday, but I wanted to give them another day so that I could pick both my cherry tomatoes and beans on the same day.

Most of my beans have been picked and all I am doing is going to be waiting for the new flowers to produce a new batch of pole beans.  This should take a couple of weeks or so and in the meantime I will be focusing on harvesting my cherry tomatoes.

I picked 47 cherry tomatoes for the first harvest of this year and I have plenty more of them on the plants.  I have four cherry tomato plants which is how many seeds I planted this year.  They are also a pretty good size and the large the cherry tomatoes the better in my opinion.

Here is the first cherry tomato harvest.

I think today I am going to make a simple salad for dinner and use my cherry tomatoes instead of using large beefsteak tomatoes.  Some of my steakhouse tomatoes are ripening, but I think that they will take a little bit longer before I start picking them this year.

I also picked some more pole beans that I had either missed or needed a couple more days of being on the vine in order to be ready for harvesting.

Basically when I picked my beans the other day there were some that were so close but not quite and all they needed was a couple more days.