A couple of weeks ago, there were some pretty big storms with lots of wind and rain. The tomatoes (and other plants!) suffered under the onslaught; a lot of the tomatoes and several sweetcorn plants were at a decidedly odd angle when the sun came out again! Obviously, the plants needed to be straightened. So, […]

Well, not exactly, but there are the first signs of tomatoes on the plants! They are very small, and some seem to have funny things hanging from the bottom, but they’re still tomatoes! While not wanting to count chickens before they’ve hatched, we do seem to be having some success growing our own vegetables. The […]

The tomatoes have been growing reasonably well and they’ve started flowering. They haven’t got particularly tall, which is a bit of a surprise. The kids are crouching next to the tomato plants, to give you an idea how tall they have got (the plants that is, not the kids!). So now we’re wondering how tall […]

The tomatoes are sprouting! We’re all quite pleased they’ve begun sprouting; some of us were beginning to worry… Now we have to wait for them to get big enough to handle, then they get transplanted.

My Dad gave my two kids a pot of windowsill tomatoes. He said he wanted to see lots of photos of them sorting out the tomatoes; planting them, watering them and, eventually, eating them! So, today, we started the process of growing the tomatoes. Once the kids had the pot open, they had to water […]