10 green tomatoes sitting on the vine
Post categories: Sara's garden, beetroot, carrot, tomato
|12:31 UK time, Friday, 7 August 2009
Hello all. I've had a count up of my tomatoes and so far there are... drum roll please. ten tomatoes! Ten, very small, green tomatoes on three large plants. The plants themselves are huge. So big in fact that a small tribe of settlers could've set up home in the depths of the undergrowth and I'd be none the wiser.
Is it normal for such a large tomato jungle to produce so few fruit? Admittedly there are lots of lovely little yellow flowers too, so hopefully they will turn tomatoey.
Elsewhere in the patch, some of the carrots are huddled together and others, like lovers in a floundering relationship, are being given some space. I'm hoping this space will give them the chance to plump up. It will be interesting to see what happens. The small skinny ones are delicious, but dangerous to prepare; don't want St John's ambulance on standby every time I reach for the peeler.
The broccoli is huge and, I believe, should be ready sometime at the turn of the century. Ok I exaggerate, but it does take a while according to Ann's blog. Hopefully, it will survive long enough to blossom - at the moment something has been holding delightful dinner parties on the plants and munching great whacking chunks out of the leaves. These pests always scarper before I get down to the patch so I don't know who's responsible... The beetroot is being left alone to grow big and fat so hopefully I can get pickling soon and turn my green(ish) fingers pink.
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