Tomato troubles, week by week
The honest tally
Six plants, three varieties, one mediocre season. Keeping the numbers is the only way to lie less next year.
Week 23 — early blight
Lower leaves yellowing on the shelldon row. Stripped and binned, not composted — the bin heaps don't reliably get hot enough anymore.
Week 27 — blossom-end rot
Four fruits on the paste tomatoes. Irregular watering, mine, not the weather's. Mulch added; mulch should have been there in May.
Week 34 — the tally
11.4kg total. The cherry row out-produced everything per metre, as it does every year, as I forget every spring.