My tomato plants are no more. After a long and arduous journey they have gone to tomato plant heaven (i.e. the compost). They were doing ok up to about a week or so ago. They had suffered quite a lot with lack of water and then copious amounts – but I had a decent amount of fruit and was just waiting for them to redden.
I was away from home for a few days and was expecting to have to water the hell out of them when I got back but alas that was not it’s only problem when I got back to them. They had been eaten alive by caterpillars. I found literally hundreds of the little monsters chomping away. After consultation with my knowledgeable neighbour, we decided that I had to give up on them. Am disappointed as they were going pretty well and I had lots of fruit on them but it wasn’t meant to be.
Oh well – spicy tomato chutney will have to wait till next year…
