Waiting for Tomatoes to Ripen

It’s sometimes difficult to remember that this is summer. In meteorological speak we’ve only 6 days of summer left as September marks the start of autumn. Summer doesn’t seem to have started yet let alone be coming to an end. It’s been a case all summer of expecting a good spell of weather to help the vegetables make up for the cold and wet start to the season but it just hasn’t happened.

We’re still waiting for tomatoes to ripen in any reasonable quantity. The plants look good and we’ve plenty of green tomatoes but we’d like red ones.

This is our tomato harvest to date just 5 ripe Gardener’s Delight weighing in at 0.114 kg. Last year by this time we’d picked 9.6 kg of several varieties.

Perhaps we’re in for a good September followed by an Indian Summer!