A medium sized Black/Orange tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants. Description New to us in 2025, also from a new source of seeds so we’ll see how they grow.Their described as Black with Orange stripes. Its of Polish origin from one of many accidental cross (we’ve all had them) between Blue Gold and an Indigo…… Continue reading Tomato – Alice’s Dream
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Tomato – Evil Olive
Mid Season green olive shaped fruit on indeterminate, regular leafed plants. Fruit have dark green undertones but can be tri-coloured. Description A new one for us in 2025. We grow green tomatoes just to give a variety of colour but this one also sounded as though it would have a “zingy” sharp flavour. Its often…… Continue reading Tomato – Evil Olive
Tomatoes for 2025
It has got to that time of year again when making decisions about what to grow. My plan this year is to significantly reduce the number of cultivar’s, probably only around 10 different varieties. The main reason is that we’ve still got a lot of tomatoes left over from last year, we’re not eating anything…… Continue reading Tomatoes for 2025
Collapsing Tomato Plants
A lesson learned. This year, I decided to reduce the use of plastics in the tomato greenhouse by using ordinary garden string to support the plants, rather than the plastic string I have used in previous years. What I do is to tie the string through the holes I have made in the bottom of…… Continue reading Collapsing Tomato Plants
Recipe – Courgette and Apricot Chutney
The glut of courgettes is always difficult to deal with. They need to be picked often to encourage more to set but if you miss one it can rapidly get big. Chutney of any sort is always a good way to deal with a glut and it will keep for up to 12 months in…… Continue reading Recipe – Courgette and Apricot Chutney
Recipe – Courgette, Ham & Cheese
With the courgettes growing quickly, its easy to miss some so this is a recipe that uses the large ones you’ve missed. It also continues to use the tomato sauce you made last year when the tomato glut hit. Its also simple and quick. A meal in a dish Ingredients (for one) Large Courgette (700…… Continue reading Recipe – Courgette, Ham & Cheese
2024 – Preparing for a Glut of some vegetables
As I’ve said before, this year has been strange. The cool start to the season meant that many things didn’t germinate when I expected them to (in fact there’s been poor germination throughout). The result was that I sowed some things again and I ended up with more plants than I expected. The second issue…… Continue reading 2024 – Preparing for a Glut of some vegetables
Tomato – Yellow Perfection
A small/medium Yellow Cherry tomato on Regular Leafed Indeterminate plants. Description The description given on the packet is of a “Tasty, heirloom (heritage) cultivar with small golden-yellow fruit so it sounds a bit like one of the many yellow cherry varieties we have grown over the years. We bought the seeds from our local supermarket…… Continue reading Tomato – Yellow Perfection
July 2024 – A Slow Year for Tomatoes
The tomatoes have been sown (early March), potted on, molly coddled when they started and eventually planted out into their final spaces in the greenhouse (early April). However, the cold, dull weather seems to be making it hard work for them to grow on as strongly as I would like. All the indeterminate varieties are…… Continue reading July 2024 – A Slow Year for Tomatoes
2024 – More Flowers
As spring continues, we’re getting yet more flowers showing through. Fritillaria, epimedium, more hybridised primulas, hellebores. The crows are also having a go at our “lawn” again, pulling up the moss. It seems that they’re looking for things to eat underneath rather than nest building. Sowed some lettuces today, hopefully they’l start to produce in…… Continue reading 2024 – More Flowers