First Tomatoes!
Put your tomatoes in the ground on Grand Final Day, (mid Spring here in Melbourne) and harvest the first ones in time for the Christmas table. Well, we didn’t quite make it, but today we picked our first fully formed, perfect, glossy skinned tomatoes. There were a few earlier ones, it is true, but the birds got them. There was also a lovely knobbly cucumber, the first of the season, which was so fresh and juicy tasting that it has already disappeared down the kids’ gullets.
Hard to describe the smell of tomato plants when you brush against them. It is almost spicy - like home made tomato sauce on the boil.
As usual, my early intention to stake the tomatos well came to nothing and they are sprawling against eachother, but this doesn’t seem to affect their cropping abilities. They are all laden with lovely green fruit.
For years now I have ignored all that stuff about pinching out the laterals. I read an article by the wonderful Clive Blazey that reported an experiment which proved that pinching out laterals made no difference to the final crop. I was convinced, and it certainly saves a lot of fussing around on those days when it is hard to even get into the garden, let alone do stuff.
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