We're busy contending with tomatoes here at Struan Farm. Harvesting heirloom tomatoes daily now, quite a few. I could barely lift this wooden basket below, it may be time for the trugs!
The record holder so far is 618 grams, I've had several others over 500.
People ask me what I do to grow tomatoes this large. Some of it must be the varieties. We like meaty, heirloom tomatoes. I put homemade compost, sheep pellets and blood and bone in the soil well before planting. When I plant the plants out from the glasshouse I use some special tomato fertiliser, and I rotate where they are planted each year. But that's pretty much it. I stake them and retie them as they grow. When I water I soak the soil near the roots, not the foliage if I can avoid it.
It can't be my singing to them, can it? I tend to hum Mozart, sometimes Beethoven piano sonatas, while I water.
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