Nearly the best tomato soup…

Alas I have picked the last of this season’s tomatoes today. They have come, since July, in all shapes and sizes and their colouring has ranged from ruby to vermilion, to orange, to a bucket load of sun-yellow fruits.  Being positioned in a north-west facing yard, I was surprised to have grown anything at all, but the tomato plants that I grew in hanging baskets and pots did well – no, mum, I didn’t sing to them, sorry!

Lunch, from the Yarden

We don’t have anything quite substantial enough to call a garden, but nor is it just a yard – there’s far too many plants in it to call it that. So, it is my ‘yarden’ in which I grow strawberries, blueberries, goji berries, tomatoes, chilis, garlic, onions, potatoes, mange tout, beetroot, herbs, roses and wild flowers (for the butterflies) in pots all shapes and sizes.