Tomato Anxiety To Tomato Serenity

I wrote about tomato anxiety a week ago. It’s a thing in our house because we grow too many. Growing fewer isn’t an option. I know, I know… sounds such an obvious solution, but as with so many things, there are nuances…

I really wanted a tomato Tardis, but obviously there’s no such thing… There’s that ‘obviously’ again. Life’s taught me never to close the door on anything just because it’s ‘obvious’.Not only does such a wonder exist, but after I’d written about it, Uvebruce popped up in the comments with a wonderful recipe for tomato sauce — less bulky than chutney, doesn’t take freezer space, and keeps. We’ve made our first batch and it’s delicious.

The lesson: If it’s obvious, dig deeper.

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Originally published in The Daily Cuppa

Indecisive Weather — Assertive Plants

 

It’s that time of year when we have some red-hot days and think it’s summer, only for the weather to cry “Fooled you!” and drench us with a sudden downpour. It has been a week where we tried to get into all corners of the garden to get things in order.

The Indian Bean tree (which we grew from a twig) is unfurling its leaves. It’s always later than the other trees and we used to despair of it every year, but here it is again, showing that it’s full of life.

Hot on the heels of the tree, the pond plants have come into flower. The pond never did recover from the geese.

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