Thursday 28 July 2016

Still muggy



The first two photos show how my plum tomatoes are ripening well. I select them because they have very few seeds and with my dentures it is a lot easier to eat them than the normal tomato. The third photo does show the normal round tomato. I found that last year at the local Supermarket, all it said was vine tomatoes from Holland. My late Mother used to say that Dutch tomatoes were far better than early English tomatoes and to be honest, they are the best tomato I have had and I don't know what variety they are, all I can say is that they are not an F1. If they had been they would not have come true as you can not save any F1 variety and get the same sort of vegetable.
 It has still been rather hot and muggy but we are promised cooler weather. No doubt it will go from being too hot to being cold. As I am writing this blog I notice that we are getting some rain, it is light at the moment but it is forecast to be a good amount of rain. We will see.
 Yesterday I got out my Mantis tiller. It is an electric sort of rotovator. I decided to get it to work on where I had the early potatoes, most of which were useless.
  I started to get ready and then got the rotovator out, when I was fully prepared I started, it was hard work and I only managed to get just over half done when it stopped, obviously it had over heated and the safety button had come into force. I gave it about 20 minutes then proceeded to finish the raised bed. It had been hard work for me, I guess I am getting old. Still raining. More soon.

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