Prima Donna Heirloom Tomato Plant Produces ONE Fruit
Every day Foodie treks out to the veggie patch to munch superlative tiny round orange "cherry" tomatoes right off the vine and every day she glances at the magnificent outflung leafy green arms of her "Brandywine" tomato plant. It's huge, healthy, exuberant, and bearing ONE and only one, fruit about 3 inches in diameter. The typical differently colored ribs of said heirloom fruit are starting to show. Foodie hovers over the one fruit of the damned thing's loins wondering whether to set up a scaffold around it, or insure it through Lloyd's of London, or place a net under it, in case of severe wind or whatnot from Mother Nature.
Now the words of one vendor at the local Farmers Market begin to make sense--"Those pesky heirlooms are a real pain to grow...."
Hey--it's the desert here! Be grateful you have anything at all, Foodie ! ( Right?) ( Maybe we didn't add enough compost....)
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