Saturday 4 October 2014

My Currant Obsession

It's raining today, after a long dry September. One result of the extended Summer has been that outdoor tomatoes have pretty much ripened on the vine. Last week I harvested these Goldrush Currant Tomatoes grown from seed: 


Something else I harvested was this Shark's Fin Melon:


It weighed in at 7kg or one stone in old money.

Much much smaller but still gratifying was this mini cucumber, one of a half dozen grown in a grow bag outdoors.


To see these exotics do so well outdoor in Scotland makes me realise how lucky we have been this year.  There were two cold weeks in August but September just went on and on. The nights have started getting cold, but the cold driving westerly winds we normally get in September have yet to arrive. The runner beans are still going fitfully as a result. The French beans are more confused having stopped they are now producing new flowers and curly fruit!  Very coquettish.

Rain permitting I'll be harvesting the melons, carrots, and the rest of the potatoes this weekend. I regret not harvesting the drying beans (Canadian Wonder) before the onset of rain. C'est la vie!



6 comments:

  1. Look forward to seeing what you think of the Shark's Fin and want you do with it.

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  2. What did you think of the Currant Goldrush tomatoes? I grew them once and was very unimpressed. They had exceptionally tough skins and very little flesh. Hopefully yours were better!

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    1. Mark, Spot on again! The "currants" were bitter until they were fully ripe and the skins are definitely chewy. The flavour of the ripe fruit makes it all worth it. You are rapidly becoming my tomato guru! What are you planning to grow next year?

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  3. We're still waiting for some proper rain. It's turned cold by night though. Down to 3.3°C on Sunday morning.

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    1. When we drove south (several weeks ago) the whole country was dry, but Edinburgh was under a drizzly cloud. Now the maincrop potatoes are telling me that while I wasn't looking they were parched.

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