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Category Archives: Vegetables
End of the Tomato Season – 2020
The season is over, all the plants are pulled up and the harvest processed, stored and ready for use over the winter. Its been a peculiar year for a number of (largely unrelated) reasons. I terms of the size of … Continue reading
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End September 2020 – Really coming to the end of the season
I seem to keep writing that the season is coming to an end, then it doesn’t. More of the tomatoes have finished and the plants have been pulled up but there still seem to be some to come. The outdoor … Continue reading
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2020 – Largest Tomato
Today we picked the largest tomato of the year. Marizol Gold always produces a few large fruit but this year it seems to have excelled itself. 846 grams (1lb 14 oz in old money) on a plant that has been … Continue reading
Mid September 2020 – The beginning of the end
Whilst there are still quite a few tomatoes still to come, its obvious that the plants are well past their best and we can see that the end of the season is in sight. We pulled up the first of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Garden, Tomato Cultivars, Vegetables
Tagged carrots, soup, tomato diseases, Tomatoes, vegetables
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Recipe – Simple Tasty Tomato Soup – Deal with the Glut
In August and early September there is always a glut of tomatoes and whilst there are lots of ways of dealing with it, freezing, chutney, sauce, etc. this is another recipe which is also good in September when the days … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrot, Onion, Recipe, Tasty Tomato Soup, Tomato Soup, Tomatoes
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August 2020 – Report so far
Most things are doing fine. The tomatoes are cropping well with much the same weight of tomatoes as the previous couple of years so far. The 2018 crop seemed to peak in a few weeks time so it will be … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Blog, Garden, Greenhouse, Vegetables
Tagged cabbage, carrots, cucumber, French Beans, physalis, Tomatoes
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Cherry Tomatoes in July
As the tomatoes start ripening, I’m pleased to see that we’ve grown a range of different colours, particularly in the cherry varieties. The standard and beefsteak tomatoes are yet to really start doing anything but here’s a picture of the … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouse, Tomato Cultivars
Tagged Brown Berry, Cherry Tomato, dancing with smurfs, Garden Pearl, Oleron Yellow, Rosella
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July 2020: First Tomatoes ripening
I’m not sure if its just because we are in partial lockdown (we were partially freed yesterday but that doesn’t make me want to go out unnecessarily) but I think I’m watching the tomatoes more closely than usual. Whilst the … Continue reading
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Tagged Maskotka, Mountain Magic, Oleron Yellow
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End June 2020: The Tomato Journey so far
Surprisingly its now 106 days since I sowed most of my tomatoes. Fruit is now set on all but six of the thirty or so cultivars that I sowed but there’s no reason to suspect that the rest won’t set … Continue reading
Blight in my greenhouse?
If there’s one word that strikes fear into tomato growers, it has to be “blight”. More people seem to be looking on the internet trying to see if they have blight than almost any other problem. The reason is simple, … Continue reading