Solanum lycopersicum and tough as nails

[copracat]

On one of my walks I've been watching this most determined tomato plant grow and fruit.









It's not easy to see where it's growing out between two blocks of cement but I think you get the idea.

Re: tagging. Had I been able to tag, I would have tagged this "berry: tomato" following the morphology scheme. Elke and melannen, are you going to do all the tagging? On the up side I have learned the difference between a drupe, a pome and a berry, so my time has been well spent.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

The smell of tomato leaves is one of my favourite in the world.

[copracat]

It really is a wonderful thing.

[melannen]

I just turned on tag creation for all members, so you should be good to go (I went ahead and added a few tags to the entry; feel free to add more -- wow, that setting is well-hidden; I hadn't realized it was off.)

I figured I'd let a free-for-all folksonomy develop for awhile, if elke agrees, and unless we get trolls, re-evaluate in a few months if we think we need something more formal. So go ahead and use my system, or don't, or anything you want.

ETA: Also, yay volunteer tomatoes! We've had those a couple years; only got fruit from one them, and it was cherry tomatoes, but they're still so fun to watch. It's amazing that one growing in a sidewalk is fruiting so well!

Tag folksonomies make me happy.

[elke_tanzer]

I didn't realize that tag creation for all members was off, either! Whoops!

:-D

Yay volunteer tomatoes!

Re: Tag folksonomies make me happy.

[melannen]

As inherited from LJ, it's stupidly non-intuitive & undocumented to figure out how to change that setting, or even what the default is (I had to resort to Google!)

I need to either get going on figuring out how to help with dw_docs or put in a suggestion to change it. (And now I'm going to go check my other comm to see how it's set.)

[copracat]

Those tags are great, thank you! And I like a system where I get to learn knew things.

[holyschist]

Wow, if I had ever had a tomato plant so determined, I might have been able to keep it alive! I can't even get them to grow in nice happy pots of soil, much less concrete blocks.

Mmmm, homegrown tomatoes....

[copracat]

I think the householder is helping it along. It's not easy to see, but there's a thin piece of garden wire tied to the gatepost, holding the plant upright and out of the way of footpath traffic.