We are finally harvesting the fruits of our labour- this must be the dirtiest job on the farm! A special outfit, stiff with tomato grease, plus woolly hat, are needed to pick even in tropical conditions!Otherwise the grower gets covered in a scaly resin from the plants that turns the bathwater yellow and only comes off when soaked and scrubbed. Lovely!
However, aren't the results worth it! This week we have just started on our favourite plums, the strange Coeur de Boeuf, and a jewelled assortment of black, red and yellow cherry tomatoes; if you don't here from me again, assume I am trapped in Jungle Bolingbroke and send out the search party!
(anybody read Stephen King's Duma Key- it's a bit like that!)
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