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A Welcome Return

By Mwillis
If you have been wondering why I have been a bit low-profile recently, and posting less often, it's because we have been away for a week, looking after Jane's elderly mother. Being away from my garden is always a difficult thing for me, so I'm sure you can imagine how glad I was to get back to it yesterday!
The weather this past week has been mostly fine and sunny, so the plants have grown a lot. I'll be doing a fair bit of harvesting later today I think. I haven't had much time to write a blogpost yet, so I'll just show some photos.
The mystery Italian cucumber is laden with fruit now:-
A welcome return
A welcome return
And the Cucamelons have done what everyone warned me they would do. After a slow start, they have produced loads of fruit:
A welcome return
Many of the chillis are starting to ripen. This is "Brazilian Starfish".
A welcome return
Most of the tomato plants are laden with ripe and ripening fruit now, like this "Ferline" one.
A welcome return
This is "de Colgar".
A welcome return
Over the next couple of days I will be having a big tomato sauce-making spree. The ones in the fridge look just as good as they were when we went away, so the Stayfresh bags have done a good job. The fruits I left out in trays on the Dining Room table have ripened nicely too, so add these to the ones I picked yesterday evening and I must have at least 10kgs available even if I resist picking more today!

A welcome return

A mixture picked yesterday


We're off to the shops this morning to re-stock the fridge and larder, but after that I'll be harvesting...

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