2016 Tomato Review.

It is always with a bit of a heavy heart that I strip out the tomato plants at the end of summer, a real indicator that autumn is here. Well, in a good year: I have been know to have lost the lot by late August if the wretched blight is bad enough. It seems such a shame as we may not see a frost before December so, in theory, they could keep on giving right through the autumn. In 2011 we were lucky enough to still be picking outdoor peppers two weeks before Christmas.

Garden: Rating the Tomatoes

Tomatoes

2015 Review of the Harvest

Many thanks to those good folks on the Grapevine for suggesting a thread for rating our 2015 tomatoes. Although I make what I think are extensive notes in my Garden Book - dates for sowing, planting out, first harvest, blight attack etc - it often appears garbled and nonsensical when I come around to planning the potager for the following year. 

So I thought I'd bung my results down here and invite other tomato growers to come along and share their thoughts, too. Plus we can all go off and see what the members of the Grapevine have been growing and how they rate those different varieties.