The Tomato is Now a Portent of Doom
3 min readFeb 23, 2023
Nobody likes bad weather. However, if you happened to be a tomato plant you would find it particularly inconvenient. When temperatures drop too low you would be unable to produce fruit, which as far as I’m concerned is the whole point of your existence. For us humans, that means no tomatoes to harvest.
This is exactly the current situation in Spain and Morocco, where persistent cold temperatures has…