Ooodles of Heirloom Tomatoes
Aug 10th 2008andyself-sufficiency & food
This years unusual weather has meant that our tomatoes are very late giving us ripe tomatoes. Although the late cold weather wiped out 3 different plantings, we still have quite a few tomato plants in fruit now, and lots more coming on.
Most of the developed plants are ones that we bought from market in Tabua, thank goodness for markets, or we wouldnt have many tomatoes at all, despite my investment in seeds from the likes of tomatofest.
We are only a week into august, and the nights are getting chilly, with a definite hint of autumn in the air. I really hope we get enough sunshine to ripen some of these tomatoes, sundry some, and bottle plenty for our winter stores. We have plenty of green beans, peppers, and courgettes in the freezer, but we usually manage to bottle up lots of ratatouille, plum tomatoes and basil, and tomato passata type stuff, which makes cooking in winter often a very easy practise.
Stumble it!
No Comments »
Powered by FireStats