Woohoo… after not planting any potatoes this year we dug up 8.5kg today! Last year’s remnant decided to sprout up in our seedbed of leeks, so we have no leeks, just potatoes… can’t complain Tomatoes are looking great, all green so far, but hopefully a bit of sunshine this week will have the glowing red! [...]

With BBQ season already started we thought we would try making some dips with things we are growing on the allotment. We’ve had to use market bought tomatoes here as ours are not quite ready yet. Dips from top left are: Spicy Tomato Salsa made with tomatoes, onion, garlic, tomato paste and cajun seasoning. Avocado [...]

Well we can safely say that tomatoes were rubbish this year… they just got too soggy with the rain and didn’t ripen enough, even on the windowsill after they’d been picked – they just weren’t happy! We’ll try again next summer (if we have one of course!)…

Poor tomatoes… they’re looking rather weary after all this rain. They’re changing colour though! Albeit slowly. Have cut some branches (if they’re called branches?) and popped them in a bowl on the kitchen windowsill to see if that helps them ripen. The plants are weighed down with fruit, which we’ve tried to string up, but [...]

More weeding on the main plot this morning… lots of grass and bindweed is making it frustrating as we can’t clear it as quickly as we’d like. Had to string-up some of the tomatoes – as they were donated to us we’re not sure of the varieties, but some look as though they should have [...]

We got very excited today as we spotted that every one of our six tomato plants had started to fruit We’re not sure on the variety, but they’re all growing rather well and we like all types of tomato anyway! Some of the lower branches are drooping, so we might try the strawberry-straw thing to [...]

Tomato plants are doing ok – plenty of flowers, but could do with a bit more water!

Lisa’s Mum has given us six tomato plants… all looking very healthy. We’ll plant them on the allotment this week – in a bit more sun than last year’s, which were dwarfed by the sweetcorn!