Summer 2013 Gardening e-Log-- Tomatoes

Summer 2013 in Sydney is extremely hot.  I find it hard to grow nice and bright red tomatoes.  With hot temperature, insect pests are also abundant.  So instead of letting my tomatoes ripen in their vine, I picked them while they were still green and then let them ripen at room temperature.



I grade my tomatoes according to their appearance.  The above are so far the good ones I got.

These pictures show whilst the tomato fruits ripening in their vine late late spring  of 2012 when the temperatures were not so bad.  Midsummer, the weather went crazy so I just picked the green tomatoes before they get infested by insects and also dry up.

 

I thank God for blessing my tomato garden and I am very pleased that my labour always paid off.