The milder weather continued through Wednesday and Thursday with the daytime temperature just managing to reach double figures and remaining mild over night with the frost having disappeared for the time being.
I decided it was about time I harvested the remaining tomatoes from our home greenhouse. The ones in the plot greenhouse were finished weeks ago but at home the tomatoes have taken much longer to ripen.
Not too bad a harvest for the beginning of November. You may spot our entire sweet pepper harvest, consisting of two Jimmy Nardello’s, amongst the tomatoes. That large Amish Gold should make an excellent couple of sandwiches. I guess after that very cold start to the season our tomatoes haven’t done too badly. At one time I was doubtful about getting any tomatoes at all as the plants just refused to grow in the cold spring weather.
The table below summarises how our six varieties cropped .
Taste wise of the six I found Jakarta a little disappointing but perhaps it just didn't appreciate the cool conditions. Gardener’s Delight and Amish Gold produced the tastiest tomatoes with Alicante and Moneymaker just a little way behind. All were better than the watery tasteless supermarket varieties. The San Marzano’s have all gone into producing tomato sauce for use over winter so the taste test hasn't really been checked just yet.
I’d certainly grow the same varieties again next year although I might consider an alternative to Jakarta if something catches my eye in the seed catalogues.
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment - it is great to know that there are people out there actually reading what I write! Come back soon.
(By the way any comments just to promote a commercial site, or any comments not directly linked to the theme of my blog, will be deleted as soon as I spot them) Please do not follow links from any comments that appear to be spam - if in doubt ignore.