Extreme Intercropping: Garlic and Tomatoes
Planting tomatoes between my garlic. Good companion plants. And by the time the garlic is harvested, the tomatoes should be …
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Drying Tomatoes
Since I have had a lot of extra tomatoes this autumn, I have been very busy drying them. Drying fruits …
Autumn Buckets of Tomatoes
As stated before, it has been a weird year. Especially for tomatoes. Normally I get my largest harvest of my …
Vegetable Garden Hail Damage
A unusually hot and dry summer till today. When we got lots of rain and some hail. We could use the rain. But this storm started as a real downpour dropping 1.5 cm (0.6 in) of rain in the first 15 minutes. And of course the hail. […]
3 Years of Weather a Tomato’s Perspective
I wrote in 2019 that it was a weird year and a bad year for tomatoes: A cold spring, and very hot, dry June. Well, this year is becoming a repeat of 2019, with a cold spring and now a very hot June with no rain in sight. I considered 2019 “weird” since it seemed an unusual event. But it might simply have been the first of a new normal of extreme swings in weather. A cold spring slows down tomato growth, flowering and fruit […]
November In the Garden 2020
The garden at the end of November is still producing.
Oxheart Tomatoes
Because they are shaped like a heart, and are as big as an ox…..
Harvesting Dinner From the Garden
Harvesting Dinner From the Garden
Another Tramp Abroad 