Tying Up My Tomato Plants With First Sign of Fruit

I always like tying up my tomatoes before they start producing because it will make it much easier later on.  When the fruit start appearing on the plants I don’t have to worry because my stretch ties will be able to hold the weight.

I knew my plants were producing flowers, but I didn’t think I would get any fruit start growing this early.  I am a little surprised, but definitely excited to see what type of tomato this is.  I have a total of four plants that have very tiny tomatoes beginning to grow.

Most of my plants have flowers, but only a select few actually have tomatoes growing.  I would say in about a week all if not most should be producing small tomatoes.

Just before I saw these tomatoes I made sure to tie them up to prevent the plants from sagging or laying on the ground and possible rotting.  This is why I tie them up and you don’t want to have tomatoes lying on the ground.  The fruit is very susceptible to any type of rot.

I like to use stretch ties because they will reduce the possibility of harming the plant and they will stretch as the plant gets heavier.

Right now they are still small, but every day they should be getting bigger and bigger.  As long as there is good weather you should be able to see them grow every day.  On cloudy days they do not grow as much, or at least not as noticeable.

Not only do I have tomatoes starting to grow, but I also checked on my zucchini plants and I have a couple that have possibly been pollinated.  This is about when they should start producing fruit.

This one looks like it has been pollinated, but I have another one that recently opened and I am not sure if it was successfully pollinated.

The last one you can see that the flower is still attached and I won’t know for another day or two whether it was pollinated.  I am kind of hoping that it was crossed by a bee or other method.

I also have a cucumber plant that is producing cucumbers.  Now so far none of them have been pollinated, but usually it takes some time before cucumbers get crossed successfully.  I want to show you what cucumbers look like when they first appear prior to opening.

This cucumber will soon get a little bigger and then flower.  Hopefully this one can get pollinated and it will be the very first cucumber of the season for 2016.