After our pathetic potato crop our tomato crop is even more laughable, if that is possible! We grew one beef tomato plant and three cherry tomato plants. The beef tomato plant produced just five tomatoes and they were smaller than standard ones. The cherry tomato plants produced tomatoes that were smaller than cherry tomatoes usually are.
At this time of year it is usually best to pick any remaining tomatoes and ripen them indoors in a dark place. I picked the remaining crop from the three plants and this is it.
Our pathetic tomato crop
I have just put them in a curry that I made from the left over roast lamb from the weekend. They are too small to do anything else with. We won’t be winning any prizes for our veg this year!
We have tried to grow cyclamen in our garden but they never last beyond the first year as the squirrels dig up the corms. This year I decided to get round this by putting some in our chimney pot on the patio.
Cyclamen
They make a lovely splash of colour. I needed to show something pretty after our ridiculous vegetables. Here’s hoping for better luck next year.
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I am really sorry Carol, but i had to laugh. I should not brag, but we had ,and still have so many tomatoes, we have been eating them for weeks, sold £38 worth, made 8 jars of chutney, and have now got the rest in a dark place, and are eating some every day. We will problerly have a bad crop next year, after saying all that. we have had a good year with all our veg, we are still picking beans, picked every day since early July, sold £58 worth, we still have flower, but it is to late for them to come to any thing, the beans we are picking now are small.It is going to come hard buying all the veg again.
I don’t blame you for laughing. I showed Steve and Yu Lee the bowl of potatoes in the fridge, in water. They laughed and said they hadn’t realised from the photo that they were so small.
I then showed them the plate of tomatoes that were in the cupboard in the dark and they laughed even more. Yu Lee said her mum has had masses of tomatoes this year.
The strange thing is they didn’t get blight this year. Every year we have a good crop of tomatoes until they get blight and then they have to be thrown away. This year there was no blight and a rubbish crop. They were in pots.
Luckily the courgettes were good and the leeks are great and we still have loads. We also have a chilli plant in a pot and it has loads of ripe chillies on it.
I just don’t know what happened with the potatoes and tomatoes.
Your Cyclamen look lovely.
I love the colour of the cyclamen.