In the Garden - from one extreme to another

So listen, I'm in the polytunnel at the moment.

I'm just going to have a look around and see what's going on.

Now, really, the one thing we are looking at in the polytunnel now is the tomatoes.

So we have lots of fruit on the vines.

And we've got green tomatoes, a lot of them ripening now to red.

So we're actually harvesting some tomatoes as we go, and they're really, really sweet and tasty.

They're delicious, lovely things.

So that's all good.

There's lots and lots of them to come.

But as I said before, what's happened in past years is we've – by the time they've ripened or some of them haven't ripened in time and the weather has started cooling off, you know, it's got to September and the weather starts cooling down a bit, they didn't actually get to the ripening stage.

So we used them when they were green and they were fine.

There's no problem using the tomatoes at all when they're green.

But obviously you want to use them when they're nice and sweet and red.

And that's what we're doing.

I'm looking at them now and we've got – lovely little cherry tomatoes, which are so red and so sweet.

And you can actually just pick them off the vine now and taste them.

And they're just delicious.

What I'm looking at as well is we've got our garlic, which is just laying out at the top of the polytunnel in dry spots.

So it's curing.

It's drying out nicely.

So I've left them as they are.

They've just been pulled from the ground and they're, I haven't done anything to them.

They're just sitting there and all the soil and everything is drying on them.

And then when they get dry enough after two or three weeks, we'll just trim them top and tail and then store them in bags.

And not an airtight bag.