As I mentioned in our group email the calender for 2009 was discussed, some good ideas resulted and I will post it for comments sometime this week. If anyone would like to host a meeting please speak up.
Tomatoes... again small but productive. Derek & I discussed a couple of ways to save tomato seed and found his method suggested of letting the seeds ferment in situ to be very logical, after all that is how nature intended. That is; to pick best bunch or branch of tomato/s and hang them in dry sunny place so fermentation occurs withing the tomato. I would be very interested to hear if any one else has tried this method, and their results. This is opposed to fermenting seeds in dish, as below.
As for our varieties to show off. Derek had a nice yellow tiger, which he was a little disappointed in size, but it still made an excellent salad tomato, and I had the Tatura dwarf varieties purchased earlier from Eden seeds. So far they have been excellent, in taste, vigour, disease resistance, however the heat knocked them and they haven't really bounced back.We also compared other summer successes...bunching onions were a winner for me, neither of us had much luck with climbing french beans in the heat, Derek once again will have a lovely crop of muffet beans, dried for winter soups and stews. My Romanesque zucchini is a real winner, no sign of mildew at all and doing exceptionally well growing in a pot. The flowers for stuffing much superior over black & gold varieties. Derek also passed on a great bo
unty of seeds,, fresh parsnip, lots of coriander, kale.On writing this Kaye will be performing with the community choir at the SheppARTon festival this evening, so I wish her well and hope to see you all soon.
Carley
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