This is what it’s all been for: that moment in early autumn when you realise you’ve done everything you can, all the watering and feeding and training and fussing and now there’s nothing more. All you have to do is pick, and pick, and pick, and pick; and eat, and cook, and freeze.
It’s been a pretty good year, all things considered: just enough rain to keep things nice and damp, and just enough properly hot sunshine to keep the fruit ripening. What a great season to choose for our Totally Tomatoes growalong!
As you’ll be aware if you’re a regular reader, I’ve been trialling 10 different varieties of tomato (plus one, Black Cherry, which I’ve grown before). Along the way I’ve been doing a few little experiments, just to see what works best.
This isn’t quite the last update in the growalong, as we’ve still got the clearing away to do. But it is in many ways the culmination of all we’ve been doing, as it’s where I can definitively tell you what’s worked and what hasn’t, which varieties I’ll be growing again – and which haven’t quite lived up to expectations.
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