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Galina Tomatoes

Galina tomatoes (left), a Siberian large yellow cherry tomato with a long growing season.

I thought I’d take a little time to post about the variety of tomato that I have probably grown in more seasons than any other: the Galina tomato. This is a potato-leafed vine variety that produces high yields of large yellow cherry tomatoes. I have grown these every year since 2011 (making this the fifth successive year). When I first grew these I had never tried a yellow tomato before. That was part of the appeal – that year I also grew Black Cherry and Green Zebra tomatoes. Over the last couple of years I have noticed supermarkets starting to…

A young medlar growing on our patio medlar tree.

Growing your own can be disheartening sometimes. A couple of my runner beans suffered minor attacks from snails when they were in pots on the patio, but the vast majority were pristine. Within a couple of days of planting them out into the vegetable patch, every single one has been attacked by slugs/snails, and is covered with blackfly. As things stand they look like they’ll all survive, but it can be demoralising. But, just when I’m reflecting on the prospect of not getting the harvest I imagined from a particular crop, I’ll see a sight elsewhere in the garden that…

Our new pumpkin patch

It’s official: we now have a pumpkin patch! Well, sort of, there are currently no pumpkin plants in it, but there are some squash plants. I just think ‘pumpkin patch’ has more of a ring to it than ‘squash patch’. We were running quite late on Saturday as I ended up helping my dad at the allotment into the early afternoon, and in the end Liz and I didn’t get to work on the garden until the evening. But we made very good use of the three hours or so we spent out there. We removed the turf from a…

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Galina Tomatoes

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Official Unveiling of the Pumpkin Patch