Living the condo life is great during the winter, when the parking lot and paths are all shoveled out, and during the summer, when the grass is cut and the flower beds are mulched. However, a not so great thing about some condos is soil-space, it’s kind of at a premium in my area. Frankly, I never really thought about it, I’m not exactly a green-thumb, and I know that watering the plants every night, if planted outside in a bed, may eventually start to bother my neighbors.

This was all fine and good until a friend of mine had 12 – yes 12 – extra tomato plants she had put into pots thinking that not all of her plants would take off. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately for her, the plants all thrived and she was left with all the extra and no place to put them. Having not yet kept a plant alive since the day I moved in here, I was weary of another poor living thing dying at my fingertips. Well, you can guess how excited I was when I was watering them a month later (which yes, I do remember to do occasionally), and saw these green tomatoes hiding within the leaves. Apparently I was oblivious the past few weeks when watering them – either that or they just grew the week I was in San Fran.

I know they aren’t quite red yet, and having the two plants in pots is not the ideal situation for them, but hey, I never thought I’d even get this far! Not going to lie – if I even only get these two tomatoes for the entire season I’ll be impressed!

Any suggestions on not killing potted tomatoes would be greatly appreciated!

-h