Blight and Bananas

Our tomatoes have blight :( All of the plants are affected, even those that had gone outside recently. Boooooo.

After a grumpy facebook post from me saying we'd lost the tomatoes, somebody replied with a tip about picking the green toms and using bananas to ripen them. We'd been all set to make a vat of green tomato chutney but the prospect of being able to make passata instead was too good to pass up.

So after doing a bit of googling and finding this method on wikiHow as to how to ripen a large amount of tomatoes.

http://www.wikihow.com/Ripen-Green-Tomatoes

We harvested all the green toms yesterday and stored them in cardboard boxes, layered with newspaper and a partly green banana.




















There were some green tomatoes that looked a bit suspect, but not quite blighty. We've seperated these into their own box to see how they ripen.

In better news, my blueberries are ripening :)

I harvested the last of the whitecurrants last night, and reused the netting from those bushes to protect the blueberries.

My Brundell mint is flowering, pretty purple flowers too.

My chives are flowering too.

Steve took these lovely photos of the low moon from our patio last night too. Very pretty, the effect looked a bit like a floodlight.