Any achievement is noteworthy, especially in the eyes of the achiever.
This morning, Clayton carefully harvested the first half kilo or so of small bright red tomatoes from his greenhouse after a number of weeks of caring concern and worry that “his little ones” wouldn’t develop from the green bumpkins into shining slickers. Those who were still on the orange side were left for promotion for tomorrow or Sunday.
What I know about gardening is dangerous – almost as much as I know about nuclear physics or women. The fruit collected, therefore, in my book are tomatoes. I have checked the seed packets in the seed-store (shelf in the garage) and discovered that they could be Tiny Tim cherry tomatoes, McGregor’s cocktail tomatoes (unlikely, because the packet is still sealed), or Dwarf Maja tomatoes.
Our policy is to grow vegetables and fruit which will be used: I understand that there is a plan afoot to sow a few of each of the varieties of tomato seed, interspersed with Basil at fortnightly intervals to evaluate the most suitable and desirable variety for us. Keeping you posted.
Next on the harvest list are the bigger tomatoes and sweetcorn.
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