Well, this year I only grew one tomato plant called gardener's delight which is a small, sweet cherry type tomato. The elderly man round the corner decided that he wanted three plants again this year, a beefsteak, a standard and a cherry.
Last year's crop wasn't very good because we had some srong winds which damaged the stems of his plants and he didn't water them as often as I had instructed, but mine did alright although the crop was quite small. This year, I kept nagging him to feed twice a week and water at least once a day because this was something he could manage easily and I certainly wasn't going to go round every day to do it!
So this year, he has an excellent crop even though some of them are badly cracked because he was erratic with the watering despite my instructions! The trouble is, he doesn't eat as many tomatoes as I do and he certainly doesn't cook. His cooking is heating up ready made meals! The beefsteak tomatoes are really big and he didn't know what to do with them because quite a few others ripened at the same time, so he gave them to me.
As they are quite badly cracked, I skinned and de-seeded them and made them into a tomato paste for pizza topping with onions, garlic and herbs and put it in the freezer. As there are still a lot to come I am sure I will be creating other tomato dishes in order to use them up.
Next year he has said he will have three of the cherry ones because he likes them the best but he still won't use the crops from three plants!
Hi Grandma!
ReplyDeleteLooks like you'll be getting more tomatoes next year too then.
We had loads of tomatoes this year with eight plants. Three were cherry tomatoes. We had so many, I took a half gallon bag with me to the doctor's office for the nurses. They were thrilled to get them as several were on diets and couldn't eat the sweets that the drug sales people always bring. I was glad they enjoyed them.