After all of yesterday’s wet weather, today has been fine
and sunny again. The only thing to mar a
beautiful day was the freezing cold southerly wind.
There is a cold snap moving up the country. It has snowed through much of the South
Island and the central part of the North Island during the last 24 hours, hence
the cold winds.
My little garden is hopeful it will be Madam Winter's last freezing blast before she turns her attentions to the other side of the world.
A friend recently gave me one of his tomato seedlings and I planted
it into one of the buckets this morning.
My friend’s name is Tom – so, naturally, the tomato has been
labelled Tommy’s Tomato. It is one of
the Sweet 100 varieties, with small tiny fruit, and should (if all goes well)
be giving us tomatoes to eat by Christmas.
Tommy has a cloth thrown over him tonight as we are
expecting freezing temperatures in the morning, and Jack Frost may not want to be nice to him!
Margaret 😊
'Giving us tomatoes to eat by Christmas' do you know how strange that sounds to me, here in northern hemisphere.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit of a battle gardening at this time of year - we can't plant tomatoes until late October. it's certainly been a cold wind today!!
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Maxine
Good luck with Tommy! Fresh tomatoes are one of life's great pleasures.
ReplyDeleteOur tomatoes are ripening now. Hope yours grow well.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with Tommy's tomatoes!
ReplyDeleteWe had some little tomatoes that were deliciously sweet. Ours didn't last long though. Hope your Tommy Tom flourishes
ReplyDeleteTommy's Tomato plant is quite a sturdy one and should bless you with lots of delicious cherry tomatoes in a few months.
ReplyDeleteTommy's tomato looks very healthy. 5 degrees here this morning which is very cold for us.
ReplyDeleteYou have a lovely garden!
ReplyDeleteI love the sweet 100 variety of tomatoes, very quick to produce fruit and we often get 6 months of tomatoes out of it. And, when the peak production makes more tomatoes than you can eat, I have learned that they freeze easily, and then peal very easily once thawed out, and work for any way you use cooked tomatoes. We like to put them on pizza, I hope Tommy does well.
ReplyDeleteThat is a healthy looking tomato...I hope you get many tomatoes from it.
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