I'm planning to pick all remaining tomatoes over the weekend and dispose off the plants. Even though there were signs of blight almost a month ago, I've been continually removing the blighted stems and leaves. Also picking tomatoes since then and ripening them on the window sill. May be some of the tomatoes I grew were blight resistant. Thanks to @B3 for sharing the seeds of cherry tomatoes. I've had a good crop.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
It doesn't look like it but a bucket of elderberries for starting the wine today. Not a good crop as no rain.
Cucamelons...they just keep on coming. This is the 10th bowl and tomorrow going to make come chutney with them, onions, chillies and purple tee beans from the garden.
The beans have come from 2 plants that have been picked and picked. Fabulous.
Then the melon! I sowed some seeds from a melon we had bought. They germinated and eventually decided that they would grow. Melons very small so today I picked 2 of them (could use them in the chutney tomorrow?) cut one open and had a taste. Amazing so sweet and even so small still worth having a go. Not going in the chutney.
I've had over 500 so far ( yes I do count @bertrand-mabel as I check the cost/production ratios) and you could never eat them all. Half mine go to make soup or sauces for the winter, but I do give some to the elderly neighbours, especially this year as they don't like going out much.
I eat the nice ones fresh, they last quite a while covered by a sheet of kitchen towel. My favourite summer salad of tomato and mozzarella uses up a lot too.
The tumbling toms get bagged up and thrown in the freezer for winter cooking.
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I'm planning to pick all remaining tomatoes over the weekend and dispose off the plants. Even though there were signs of blight almost a month ago, I've been continually removing the blighted stems and leaves. Also picking tomatoes since then and ripening them on the window sill. May be some of the tomatoes I grew were blight resistant. Thanks to @B3 for sharing the seeds of cherry tomatoes. I've had a good crop.
and turned 2 of them into Elizabeth David's Piedmont roast peppers stuffed with rose de berne toms - Summer on a plate
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Courgette TriStar
Tomato (clockwise)
Galina
Red Cherry
Golden Grape
The tumbling toms get bagged up and thrown in the freezer for winter cooking.