We've reached the point of production when the tomatoes are ripening faster than we can use them so I'll be turning a lot of them into sauces for chilli and bolognese in the next few days. I have emptied two half water butts that I am using as planters and after refreshing them with reindeer poo and homemade compost they will be ready to receive their new seedlings as soon as the baby plants are big enough next month. I'm still battling cabbage white butterflies and every day spend a half hour rubbing the tiny eggs from the underside of the brassicas and feeding the caterpillars to my goldfish. It's quite therapeutic to wander around the veg plot removing pests by hand. Tony and I are going for a run out to Northallerton to see if we can buy a dwarf waterlily and some other pond plants. They will make a nice addition to the pond and hopefully offer some breeding space for the huge dragonflies that are darting around our garden at the moment. There must be another pond somewhere in our neighbourhood as I haven't seen any signs of the casings that they shed.
Converting my suburban garden in North East England into a food producing garden. We are UK planting zone 9a
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You remind me that I need to sort out some of the tomatoes too - just a passata that I can then use for whatever over winter. xx
ReplyDeleteWe've really enjoyed the flavour of our home grown. I had a shop bought one the other day and it was tasteless.
DeleteWe got blight on our tomatoes so we had only literally a couple of tomatoes before disaster struck. I had to buy some tomatoes to make some preserved in oil for the winter. I love these tomatoes and they kept really well all through last winter. If you would like a look, I got the recipe from this website: https://theelliotthomestead.com/2020/08/preserved-tomatoes-in-olive-oil/
ReplyDeleteI didn't have olive oil so I used sunflower oil and what was left in the jars after I had eaten all the tomatoes got used when making stirfries.
Guess what I'm having for tea?... more tomatoes!!! (with some shop bought feta cheese, roasted sweet potatoes and aubergine chucked in there too) x
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