This hasn’t been a great summer season for the garden. The lack of sun and constant rain has meant that many seeds haven’t germinated properly, plants have grown up stunted, and yields are way down on last year. Still, you can’t go past these two beauties! I can see why they’re they’re the “Mortgage Lifter” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tomatoes’
Hand-sized “Mortgage Lifter” tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged summer, tomatoes on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Saving our tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged pasatta, pickles, relish, summer, tomatoes on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The warm, wet weather has meant a glut of tomatoes this summer. We’ve also had few fruit fly (although an invasion of moths and caterpillars). The result has been dozens of kilos of tomatoes, far more than we can eat. This was, however, the plan. With the bounty of tomatoes, I filled many jars. The [...]
Heirloom tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged heirloom, preserving, summer, tomatoes on December 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At this time of year, the tomato crop is in full swing, and the great thing about planting heirloom tomatoes is the variety. At any given point, our fruit bowl is full of ripening tomatoes, red and yellow, small and large. We pluck them off the plants as soon as they start to colour up, [...]
A jungle of tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, celery, cucumber, snowpeas, summer, sweetcorn, tomatoes on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The wet spring (the wettest on record) has been miserable for us humans, but the garden has been loving it. Plants that did well last year have gone crazy this year, beyond all reasonable expectation. This includes: Tomato plants (both bush-type and climbing-type) that have gone wild, taking over everything. Beans and snowpeas producing vigorously. [...]
The tomato harvest
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged summer, tomatoes on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had a reasonable first year for tomatoes. Plenty of fruit, but we were hit hard by fruit fly and caterpillars (who decided they preferred eating the fruit from the inside out, rather than just munching on leaves). This wiped out most of the Grosse Lisse (the first to fruit), and half of all the [...]
Serendipity and tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged compost, gardening, tomatoes, winter on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We we moved, we had some left over soil and compost in an old garbage bin. I left this beside the side of the house, and thought nothing more of it. Until tomato shoots starting poking their heads up. This is pretty normal: we have tomatoes appearing out of our compost at the drop of [...]
