Allotment gardening

It's the second day of trying to bring some order to the tomato plants which grew into huge bushes during my two-week holiday. I can't believe how much they have grown in two weeks - so many massive side shoots all over the place. On some plants it takes real detective work to work out which are the side shoots and which is the main stem. A few hours with a pair of secateurs and green twine finishes with all the plants looking neat and being properly tied up. I've lost a few budding tomatoes in the process but not as many as my youngest son Nathan picked off one plant when I started trimming them yesterday. The finished job looks so much better and I can actually walk among the plants now which I couldn't do on Sunday.




There's still a lot of weeding to catch up on but at least the tomatoes are now in order - and the fruit on the remaining plants is looking good too.