Blagger » First tomato of 2009 http://www.blagger.co.uk Self-sufficiency, growing food, keeping chickens, recipes Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:56:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 First tomato of 2009 http://www.blagger.co.uk/growing-food/first-tomato-of-2009/ http://www.blagger.co.uk/growing-food/first-tomato-of-2009/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:17:26 +0000 Nik http://www.blagger.co.uk/?p=1110 Well, we've had our first tomato of the year, but it isn't great news. It was green for starters, as you'd expect right now, but more importantly it had also been nobbled by thing or things unknown. Related posts:
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Well, we’ve had our first tomato of the year, but it isn’t great news. It was green for starters, as you’d expect right now, but more importantly it had also been nibbled by thing or things unknown. Look:

First tomato of 2009

That’s no good, is it.

The thing is, none of the other tomato vines (we have about 20 on the go in total, both in and out of the greenhouse) has any tomatoes on them at all, so I don’t know how this one got to the size of a fairly large grape when all of the other plants are just showing yellow flowers so far.

Anyhow, we obviously won’t be eating it, and it’s so early in the season that there’s still plenty of time for many more to grow, but I’m still intrigued to know just what it was that ate our first fruit of the year so far from the ground.




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Related posts:

  1. How to grow a bumper tomato crop
  2. Second-year strawberries
  3. Three years of raspberry growth

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