This week has kinda turned into gardening week on the HipHop blog, right? It’s because we’ve had a lot of fruit ready to harvest, and I had my camera handy.
Something kinda weird began happening to our tomato plants, I think some form of rot due to wet weather had set in (they’re outside plants), this was causing a few of the fruits to tarnish and rot alongside the branches of the plants. I thought it best to rescue as many of the unripened fruits that I could incase they all ended up being thrown into the compost bin.
Last weekend I went out armed with my bowl & a pair of scissors and removed every single fruit from our plants and then ripped up the plants. I won’t be adding these to the compost bin because if this rot thing is a disease, then I wouldn’t want to introduce that to the rest of my garden.. no siree!
I got a massive amount of green tomatoes off the plants, I’m going to be ripening some with the help of bananas, but the rest will be going into a giant pot of green tomato chutney.
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Something has definitely gone awry, as you should have had fully ripened fruit by now. Ours are actually coming to the end now – they’ve done really well this year (for a change).
You can get tomato blight, which will rot the fruit – you’re right to get rid of it, as it can affect other fruiting plants. Tomato chutney sounds like a great idea!