tomatoes

The last of the tomatoes and green tomato and fruit chutney

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This is the last of both the hanging basket tomatoes and the rogue tomatoes – the plants are now in the compost. And two small bits of home grown rhubarb.

Home grown green and red tomatoes and rhubarb

Diana and I cooked some green tomato and fruit chutney.

green tomato and fruit chutney
Before
green tomato and fruit chutney
After

We added two of our home grown, very hot, chillies so this mix is spicy!

Further Reading

Rogue tomatoes
There are not many tomatoes left now…
Red tomato and a sunset

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Morning tea in the garden

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The weather is nice enough today to have my mid-morning tea out in the garden – watching a movie on Netflix.

Tea by the shed​
Tea by the shed

The tomato plant has gone into the compost bin and the top compost from the pot has gone onto the raspberry patch. Total crop from the tomato plant was about a Pyrex bowl of cherry tomatoes. And we thought that it would produce very little – in fact Alyssa thought the plant was dead!

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