Last nights storm was so loud!. The dogs tried once again to climb under the furniture. The wind was high and the lightening endless. But I am over worrying about them. It is always a surprise when the storms roll in after a hot day of work out under the sun. But very quickly they have become the norm. Almost every evening they roll in.
It is going to be this kind of summer.
Txiki is almost as big as her mother.
Boo looks wistfully at this marooned ruined frisbee every day – waiting for one of these passing storms to unleash it. So far he has had no luck.
Tomatoes. The tomatoes have begun. With all these storms one after the other. The heat and the wet and the humidity are bringing in a wonderful crop of tomatoes – already the sauce pot is underway. They split when it is this wet but we can make sauce from split tomatoes. And we are on the watch for all those nasty humidity related diseases (already the zuchinni plants have bit the dust) but so far so good for the tomatoes.
Aren’t they beautiful. I love tomatoes. We do not buy them all year – waiting. We have started picking sweetcorn too. Soon I will be making the sweetcorn relish – my favourite!
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi.
The Kitchen's Garden 
36 responses to “Normal storms”
Those tomatoes look fantastic. I got my first seasonal tomatoes from the farmer yesterday and they were well worth waiting for 🙂
Your tomatoes are stunning. Voluptuous!
What lovely tomatoes! Ours have not yet started, patiently waiting but still a few courgettes growing.
Do share your recipe for sweet corn relish please.
I’d love to have that recipe, too. 🙂
Me, too. LOVE sweet corn relish!!! Much love, Your Gayle
Yes please, my John loves it and I have yet to find a recipe that’s “just like I used to eat”. (That may well be impossible!)
Hope I can still find mums – it is around here somewhere.
If I may, https://thekitchensgarden.com/2013/07/29/how-to-cook-and-preserve-sweetcorn/
Laura
Lovely tomatoes!
do not be like the girl in The Wizard of Oz we dont want you and the farmy being carried off in the wind
I’m salivating looking at those gorgeous tomatoes. xx
Summer tomatoes are red gold… even as we were unpacking during our house move last summer I was making batches of tomatoes in a pot, and they lasted right through until we took off on our travels in June 🍅
Me, too! I need to get to the Farmers’ Market for some tomatoes! Much love, etc, etc, etc. Gayle
Home grown tomatoes are the taste of summer. I wish I could grow them!
I’m surprised Boo didn’t commission the tall Frenchman to retrieve that Frisbee before he left 🙂 We have had two days of wild winds and even a couple of drops of rain – unheard of in July, of course we are painting outside window and door frames. Laura
Seems you are in for a stormy summer C. Absolutely adore the colour of your tomatoes. I have just finished planning my new veggie garden. Hopefully will finish the measurements and commence building next week.
Have a beautiful day.
🙂 Mandy xoxoxo
Love those tomatoes. I have one that has been on the cusp of turning red for ages, yet the others are way behind. My family have been complaining that there are English tomatoes in the shops but I’m not buying them. Just wait, I say to them, until ours ripen. It will be worth the wait.
Tomatoes like yours are far more ‘real’ than the plastic perfection masquerading as tomatoes in supermarkets, and I’m willing to bet the taste is also a lot realer! Are they a particular variety you plant for sauce, or just general seed you’ve saved? I used to like Amish Paste for sauce, but I can’t grow them here, it’s too hot.
Your maters are awesome and hello to the cows. Brodie seems unmoved by storms..we are lucky and so is he.
Your maters look fantastic! Now I’m craving a mater & mayonnaise sandwich (Duke’s all the way!). Unfortunately, I’ll never find anything as tasty as I’m sure those are in any of my local stores.
My tomatoes are green, the size of marbles and just as hard. Pitiful.
Oh no – hopefully they ripen – are you as hot as the others in the UK? c
We had 2 days of warm temperatures, and now we’re back to cloudy, cool days. The plants are healthy, huge green leaves, but nothing is ripening. Pity. I might have to start buying tomatoes.