This is another crazy project. I am always impressed when I flip a garden magazine and a veggie garden is arranged like a flower garden. Everything is neat and compliments each other. I wanted something similar but I decided to test it on small scale. In a pot.

I chose three different varieties of tomatoes, different shapes, sizes and colors. All of them are heirloom /in EU I am committing a crime now, because we have a list of approved varieties… what rubbish !/. I chose  the big red “Cherokee Purple”, small yellow pear-shaped “Ildi” and tiny red “Christmas grapes”. I sowed the seeds and replanted the seedlings into a 25l /cca 5-6 gallon/ pot. I am watering them regularly.

Nobody believed it would be possible, but a few weeks passed and they are doing OK. We already have some green tomatoes and plenty of flowers, and we’re waiting for them to get ripe and make a beautiful show and lecso /Hungarian ratatouille/.

Some closeups of the developing tomatoes:

UPDATE 2008 July 29 : RESULTS

It seems the crazy project is a success. I got three tomato varieties in one pot. It was a very wet year and plenty of my tomatoes were victims of rot. These survived /small leaf damage as you can see/. The tomatoes tasted magnificent. I can recommend this experiment to everyone. What would I do differently? Since I mainly started the project for show – three different colors, shapes and sizes – next time I will pick tomatoes which ripen at the same time. The Cherokee Purple tomato is still green and needs some time, but it is doing ok. So I can conclude the project is  a success.