Wow - A Ripening Tomato

Saturday was much cloudier than the last few days but still pleasantly warm.

It was a return to the allotment after our few days away in Cumbria. Our plum crop this year is a complete failure although the tree does have around a dozen plums which I’ve been keeping my eyes on for any of the fruits to ripen. As soon as the fruits begin to turn the wasps are into them and with so little on the tree I didn’t want this to happen. In the middle of the afternoon as we made some coffee I checked and decided one plum was ready for the taste test. 

This Oullins gage was delicious. It didn’t make it to the weigh in as we ate it straight from the tree. Why can’t the supermarkets sell fruit this tasty?

As we were drinking our coffee I noticed something strange in the greenhouse. It looked like a glint of something reddish. I looked a little closer and sure enough we have a couple of Gardener’s Delight tomatoes actually turning red.

The first of our autumn raspberries are now ripening as the summer fruiting ones come to the end of their season. We have both red and yellow varieties.

The change hasn't affected the blackbirds though as they’ve moved seamlessly from eating summer to autumn fruiting berries. Red or yellow they don’t seem too fussed.