Lee's parents had an abundance of tomato plants on the balcony this year so they gave has a tray full of them to plant out in our garden. Lee loves the idea of growing his own vegetables. We haven't grown tomatoes since before Jordan was born.
It is such fun to water them & watch the flowers bloom before they turn into tiny tomato buds!
We had a huge number of green tomatoes grow helped by the huge amount of rain we had over the summer.
They took a very long time to ripen....
....but eventually some of them did turn a beautiful scarlet red.
We got quite a crop of them varying dramatically in size & shape but all tasting absolutely delicious! Timmy & Luke loved them! AJ was very proud to have harvested some of them in a little bowl all by herself (almost)!
Earlier this week I decided that no more tomatoes were going to ripen so my friend Jo & I pooled our resources & made some delicious green tomato chutney together. Neither of us had made it before but it was a lot of fun. We cried a lot peeling & chopping so many onions! Lee & Jo's husband are not chutney eaters but they both agreed it tasted fantastic (& they weren't just saying it)! I have just had a cheese & homemade chutney sarnie for my lunch & I can confirm that it is absolutely delicious! I think we will definitely be doing it again next year! What fun growing & making your own is! :o)
Lee's parents had an abundance of tomato plants on the balcony this year so they gave has a tray full of them to plant out in our garden. Lee loves the idea of growing his own vegetables. We haven't grown tomatoes since before Jordan was born.
It is such fun to water them & watch the flowers bloom before they turn into tiny tomato buds!
We had a huge number of green tomatoes grow helped by the huge amount of rain we had over the summer.
They took a very long time to ripen....
....but eventually some of them did turn a beautiful scarlet red.
We got quite a crop of them varying dramatically in size & shape but all tasting absolutely delicious! Timmy & Luke loved them! AJ was very proud to have harvested some of them in a little bowl all by herself (almost)!
Earlier this week I decided that no more tomatoes were going to ripen so my friend Jo & I pooled our resources & made some delicious green tomato chutney together. Neither of us had made it before but it was a lot of fun. We cried a lot peeling & chopping so many onions! Lee & Jo's husband are not chutney eaters but they both agreed it tasted fantastic (& they weren't just saying it)! I have just had a cheese & homemade chutney sarnie for my lunch & I can confirm that it is absolutely delicious! I think we will definitely be doing it again next year! What fun growing & making your own is! :o)
2 comments:
Yes! It's a good chutney year in Shropshire too, but none of our tomatoes ripened and after two lots of chutney the dreaded blight got the rest. Boo hoo! You must have escaped the blight because it wouldn't have dreamed of looking in your garden for any toms!
Well done!
DaddyO xxxxxx
Those toms are very red! Well done Lee you are on your knees!!
M-I-L xxx
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