Yellow tomatoes and purple hazelnuts

Before I forget, I want to make some notes for myself about this year's tomato crop. The variety is Orange Bourgoin, an old French variety. I've grown them cordon style up strings and for once have remembered to water and feed them enough.

Anyway - they've been a resounding success. Even in partial shade in the polytunnel the fruit are ripening. They're doing fine outdoors too. Some of the indoor trusses have up to 50 good sized tomatoes on them. The flavour is good raw and fabulous when grilled or roasted, and the flesh is much thicker than red varieties I've grown before. The only difficulty is getting used to yellow tomatoes.

One of the smaller trusses ripening

The flesh is unusually thick - they are wonderful grilled.








We picked the purple hazelnut harvest today. This is the first year we've had more than one or two - the squirrels usually get the lot, but this year we've not seen any squirrels at all. Presumably someone nearby decided they were an unwanted pest.