How did your tomatoes do?

Do you know why tomatoes are round and red? Because if they were long and yellow, they’d be bananas.

Tomatoes aren’t just the most popular vegetable to grow, they’re also the vegetable that gets talked about most.

The chatter usually starts around midseason, when early tomato fruits reach full size and begin to change color. Thanks to social media, gardeners can see how everyone else’s tomatoes are doing. Are they early? Will they be late? Has the dreaded blight set in?

Speaking of blight, tomato discussions in mid-summer often revolve around blossom end rot, the disorder in which the bottom of the fruit becomes sunken, leathery, and brownish-black. Members of social media gardening groups enjoy tossing back and forth various remedies, and it makes for interesting conversation, even if