With the new beds finished and all the crops sown, there is little to do this month except harvest, harvest, harvest. We are experimenting with growing hanging basket tomatoes outdoors in the fruit cage. We don't have a greenhouse, but we love the tang of home grown tomatoes, so have chosen fast ripening cherry type tomatoes that are advertised as being suitable for growing outdoors, and given them a warm spot in full sun. Many of the tomatoes sold in shops are varieties chosen to store well or look good in a packet, rather than being chosen for taste or texture. Growing your own lets you experience the perfect flavour of tomatoes, so we hope that our hanging basket tomatoes will ripen for us. They are growing strongly, and we have companion planted them with marigolds to help keep pests away from them. While we wait for the tomatoes to ripen there are plenty of other harvests, as we continue to benefit from all the fruit and vegetables we can eat. We store what we can't use right away by freezing, making in to jam and chutney, and cooking into delicious meals we can freeze and enjoy later.
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