Still Harvesting Tomatoes
It's January 10th and we are still getting ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse. I think the plants are slowly dying, some tomatoes have got black marks and many leaves are now dead, but tomatoes are still ripening! Only 3 frosts this winter so far and one of those was slight.
Amazingly they are also sweet. I think this is largely due to the lack of watering that they have received which has helped concentrate the sugars which would have otherwise been diluted by the water. They are taking a long while to ripen as expected.
although it's weird not having frosts at least there are compensations. Interesting about the flavour and lack of watering. I have James Wong's book, Grow for Flavour, which I haven't read yet but dipped in to and I think it says that lots of water dilutes flavour.
ReplyDeleteFantastic to still have tomatoes at this time of year! I've still got a few chilli peppers going in mine. I bought a few into the house too and it's lovely to see them ripening and going red at this time of year to brighten the place up. Great to see your polytunnel going strong.
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