Tag Archives: Tomatoes

Dead ‘orse

I have been preserving tomatoes this week.  Not my tomatoes, my father’s, so I have given this post his name for tomato sauce.   My dad always used to call tomato sauce dead horse – I suspect he’s not alone in this, … Continue reading

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Growing Tomatoes – Part 4 – Tomato Envy

I ripped out 3 of my tomato plants earlier in the week.  The Broad Ripple Currant, the Sweet F1 Hybrid and the Baby Red Pear  were all looking pretty much dead, so all came out and I can give that part … Continue reading

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January – The Wrap Up

Ahhh January, I miss you already.  Well I would do if we weren’t having a nice warm start to Feb, or indeed if Miss 5 wasn’t happily packed off to school, or if January wasn’t synonymous with the gradual death … Continue reading

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Chickpea, Chorizo & Tomato Stew

Yesterday was something of a momentous day for me – so much so that I went to bed early and as a result this post is a little late – you see it was my daughters first day at school. I … Continue reading

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Growing Tomatoes in Melbourne – Part 3

I do find tomatoes one of the more idiosyncratic crops that I grow.  Nothing ever seems simple with tomatoes.  If its not the leaves, its the fruit, are they too dry?, are the too wet?, overfed?, underfed? there always seems … Continue reading

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