Tomatoes are the most widely grown crop in home gardens across America, and with good reason. Sun-ripened and fresh from the vine, home-grown tomatoes offer flavor and texture unparalleled by their commercial counterparts.
But raising tomatoes, and ripening a crop here in our northern climate is a perennial challenge, and 2025 is no exception. Difficult as it is to remember, here in this hazy August, spring was long, wet, windy and very cold. Plants went into the ground late, and while thriving now with a strong fruit set, only the cherries have begun to ripen.
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