{"id":17800,"date":"2016-10-25T15:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17800"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:56:44","slug":"tomato-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17800","title":{"rendered":"Tomato crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After our pathetic potato crop our tomato crop is even more laughable, if that is possible! We grew one beef tomato plant and three cherry tomato plants. The beef tomato plant produced just five tomatoes and they were smaller than standard ones. The cherry tomato plants produced tomatoes that were smaller than cherry tomatoes usually are.<\/p>\n<p>At this time of year it is usually best to pick any remaining tomatoes and ripen them indoors in a dark place. I picked the remaining crop from the three plants and this is it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17812\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17812\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17812\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17812\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tomato_crop.jpg\" alt=\"Tomato crop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tomato_crop.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tomato_crop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/tomato_crop-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our pathetic tomato crop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have just put them in a curry that I made from the left over roast lamb from the weekend. They are too small to do anything else with. We won&#8217;t be winning any prizes for our veg this year!<\/p>\n<p>We have tried to grow cyclamen in our garden but they never last beyond the first year as the squirrels dig up the corms. This year I decided to get round this by putting some in our chimney pot on the patio.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17811\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=17811\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17811\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17811\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cyclamen.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclamen\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cyclamen.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cyclamen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/cyclamen-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclamen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They make a lovely splash of colour. I needed to show something pretty after our ridiculous vegetables. Here&#8217;s hoping for better luck next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our pathetic potato crop our tomato crop is even more laughable, if that is possible! We grew one beef tomato plant and three cherry tomato plants. 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