Maybe Dreams Do Come True

New buds

I walk out to my garden every morning hoping the Tomato Russet Mite was a bad dream and my tomato plants didn’t shrivel up into papery brown shambles.

No such luck.

Every day, I venture out to the scene of the microscopic bug’s carnage, and reality slaps me in the face.

I don’t know why I do it. Sometimes I look for tomatoes that haven’t been affected by the mites—and sometimes I even find one or two.

Today I finally gave up on my masochistic trips to the garden. I started to pull out the tomato plants that were completely dead.

Then, as I got to the plants that still had some green on them, I noticed that there are green vines growing out from in between the dead vines. At the end of some of these vines is new fruit that is ripening.

Hmmm. Maybe my dream is coming true.

new fruit

Comments

[Greg Hancock]

I feel your pain of those darn bugs and the pleasure you get when you realize that they didn't kill everything.

[chigiy]

Hi Greg,
Yes, I still have some tomatoes ripening and none or my tomatillos weren't affected. yeah!