My Sad Early Attempts

[Mojave]

Looking at my garden today I remembered my first attempts back in the 70's. What a difference 30 or so years make.

I had no idea whatsoever how to grow tomatoes but I did have a green thumb with "other" things (remember this was the mid 70's and I was a youngster). I had a huge back yard and grew 20 to 30 tomatoes every year over a five year or so period. My plants always grew to be huge healthy looking things, but, other than my cherry types, over all those years I only harvested two tomatoes. One of them was a yellow or orange, Lemon Boy rings a bell, so that's a great advertisement for that one. It survived my ineptitude .

Well here we are now in 2015 and things have changed quite a bit. My tomatoes no longer grow to 10-12 feet and produce nothing! The thing that's so cool to me is while I know what I'm doing now I'm still picking up tips and pointers from all of you folks.

Thank you everybody and have a great season!