Saturday’s weather was a big improvement with some sunny periods. We had just one of the forecast scattered showers in the late afternoon when the sun was shining. The clear skies of daytime led to the sort of description in my title as overnight into Sunday morning the temperature fell to 4.2°C. That’s not the sort of night time temperature that’s going to prolong our runner bean harvesting season or help ripen tomatoes, apples and pears.
I decided to clear our home greenhouse tomatoes to make way for drying out our onions. Throughout summer most of our home tomatoes have been consigned to the green waste bin with blossom end rot and with only a few tomatoes left on the plants I've cut our losses and will make better use of the greenhouse space by drying off our onion crop.
This is virtually, give or take the odd tomato, our total home greenhouse crop from 15 plants. We've still a few green Alicante tomatoes to pick once they've ripened. Fortunately we've lots of green tomatoes in the plot greenhouse - but will they get some good weather to help them ripen?
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Let's hope that your allotment tomatoes get the chance to ripen. Mine are outside, and although I've had plenty, there are still lots to go. The rain still hasn't really touched us here. I am wondering if I need to water things - I keep leaving it expecting rain, but then none materialises. The beans are not happy! Great picture of the tomatoes you did manage to pick at home, they do look delicious.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tasting new tomato this year is Pink Wonder.
DeleteThat's really disappointing. At least you've got the tomatoes at the plot. My greenhouse tomatoes have been disappointing too this year, they've grown very straggly and haven't produced half of what I've had on the outdoor plants.
ReplyDeleteTomatoes have done well outside on other plots I've noticed. No dreaded blight this year on toms or potatoes. Can't be bad!
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