The Tomato Plant

When Cheyann visited with us in May she gave us a tomato plant that she had been growing in the greenhouse of her residential facility. It was small, but green and healthy and showed the results of many months of hard work and caring. As the plant grew through the summer I noted that it was beginning to wither. I tried to move it to a new location to see if that might help. It might have, a little. Some new growth was noted but by mid August when many other plants were distributing fruit, the Cheyann plant was just starting to flower. I continued to nurture the plant the best I could - making sure it had water and light and moving it around as it showed need, and it helped....some. It is now mid September and the Cheyann plant has one very small green tomato just beginning and one other flower. The problem is - we will soon get a frost here in the North Country. And so.. the only thing left to do to save the plant is to move it to a greenhouse - and the only greenhouse that can reallyl accommodate this particular tomato plant is thousands of miles away......