Thursday, 1 October 2009

Dinah's mother's tomatoes




The very last of the tomatoes - I roasted the red ones in the oven and will make green tomato chutney this week with the green ones. A fantastic year for the tomatoes!
In the crate it's everything just pluked sunday morning 11 october - the foto above this one shows the red ones separated from the green ones.


Two years ago Dinah's mother Maisie gave her some tomato seeds from her own plants to give to me to plant in the Netherlands. Dinah gave them to me in this cute little pin box and I then misplaced it when I got home. This spring I found them and affraid that they might not come up I planted a lot of the seeds - I got 80! What the fuck do you do with 80 tomato plants? I couldn't kill my babies so I repotted them and gave a whole lot of them to my friends at work. And now I hear all kinds of great stories from them about their tomato plants. I planted 16. William brought some to his parents - we've been eating them every day.......I planted them late and we had a glorious end of the summer in Zeeland - perfect weather for tomatoes and that's why we still have so many. DMJ they really did wonderful in our climate. Maisie is no longer with us but her memory will long live on!

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