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
Category: Vegetables
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
2024 – Sown Tomatoes
OK, its a little late this year but I’ve at last got around to sowing my tomatoes for 2024. No new ones this year, I haven’t found any local suppliers who have something different that isn’t an F1 Hybrid. This means I’ve had to sort through my (200+) own varieties and sort out ones that…… Continue reading 2024 – Sown Tomatoes
Tomato – Tsungshigo Chinese
A brown plum shaped tomato on Indeterminate Plants Description A mid/late cropping brown plum shaped tomato very similar to Black Plum. The seeds were part of the 2019 swap but we didn’t get around to growing them for the first time until 2023. Fortunately the seeds seem to have kept and there was no issue…… Continue reading Tomato – Tsungshigo Chinese
2023: A Slower year for tomatoes
Every year, I try to keep a record of how my tomatoes (and other vegetable & fruit) are harvesting. Its interesting how each year is different. 2023 has been slow for tomatoes and, as I’ve said elsewhere, the tomatoes are ripening unevenly with greenback on many cultivars. So far (24th August) we’ve had around 12kg…… Continue reading 2023: A Slower year for tomatoes