Checking out the tomatoes' progress is definitely the least happy task of this season. After removing most of the hail-damaged fruit, there's not that much left, new growth is slow, and what's there is taking its time to ripen. Also, with the summer's abundance of water, taste … [Read more...] about Poor tomatoes
crop damage
Three minutes of mayhem
What at first seemed like a mild three-minute hail storm this afternoon did an impressive amount of crop damage right across the market garden. One of those sudden, short storms that've been popping up more or less several times a day built up, rain started to come down quite … [Read more...] about Three minutes of mayhem