Tomatoes Galore!!

I waited all year to eat my homegrown tomatoes - not kidding i don't buy fresh tomatoes from the supermarket. The lack of flavor alone is sufficient to put me off...and even the canned tomatoes taste better...

One of 6 tomato plants survived despite planting it out at the usual time! Fortunately the sole survivor did more than survive - it produced just under 10 kgs of tomatoes. If only the others had survived.... The trick to maximize production per plant is to pile compost at the base of the tomato plant where the laterals are growing. By doing so, it will encourage the laterals that are covered with soil to form roots, and essentially grow as another plant. The main stem that is in contact with the compost will develop even more roots thus enabling the plant to take in even more nutrients. That means more tomatoes too! What a nice trick to truely get more for less!!