The brave little tomato plant that could. Sort of.

Well he is dying. Half of him is dead and the other part is giving up section by section as the tomatoes ripen. It's been a sad year for this plant. I will end up with about 25 tomatoes in total, which is pretty weak. And even though each tomato has been absolutely breathtakingly sweet and perfect, I still wanted MORE!

Maybe it's my own darned fault for giving my money to the evil corporation that is Wal-Mart, but I saw this little plant in front of the store and it was so cute and had tomatoes on it, and the price was good, and I was easily impressed. The minute I got him home he tried dying a million times on me. Next year I will have to take myself elsewhere to find plants for my homestead (and yes I am still calling it a homestead, I now have a decorative pepper plant, and a succulent of some sort...so I'm growing things. Don't judge.) :P

You can kind of see the dying action thingie he's doing. The leaves, then the stem just shrivel up and die off. It started out looking like a phosphorous deficiency, with purple leaves, then all sorts of colors appeared and it started dying. I am waiting for the final 5 to ripen and then I will be taking him to the recycle bin. I don't want to compost him if he has a blight of some sort...I don't know if that will pass it on to other things planted in that soil? I guess I better google that and see.