Success At Last

Just to recap this year... The potatoes got blight, the pumpkins and squash drowned, the courgettes refused to grow, the weeds prospered.. Finally there's success in one of the crops that we planted. Our San Marzano tomatoes have really come up trumps which is very satisfying - especially as we tried to grow them with no success what so ever last year. It's been a while since the little green tomatoes appeared but finally we've had enough sun to ripen them and the results are glorious.

I have to be honest and confess that I can't take credit for them though. My boyfriend Jo has taken charge of the greenhouse this year so they're all down to his hard work, though I have managed to slip some chili plants into the corners which are coming on great guns as well. I'm just hoping that we can make use of all the tomatoes (either through eating or giving them away) before we go off on our holidays in a couple of weeks. The gardener's perennial problem of going from famine to feast strikes again.

Comments

[Soilman]

You've done really well to get any tomatoes at all! There's not an unblighted tomato anywhere on our allotment plot. Total disaster.

[Liz]

Hi John,

I've never planted Golden Sweet but believe they're delicious. Fingers crossed for your San Marzano - there's still time!

[John Curtin]

I'm envious as mine are way way behind. I've had plenty of Golden Sweet and some Gardeners' Delight but no San Marzano yet.
I'll take some if you're giving them away!