Shallot harvest and heirloom tomatoes

I will grow shallots again next year as I am really pleased with how well they have done. As I've said before I really didn't know much about growing vegetables when I took on the plot, I wanted to learn as I went along. So I had no idea how shallots grew when I planted the shallot sets, I didn't know that from one bulb many shallots would grow! I thought they were the same as onions as in one bulb produces one onion. I liked how pleasant they looked growing in the bed too.  Well the shallots have gone down a treat in my family, I have given many away and have used plenty in my own cooking.

The heirloom tomatoes I got from Copped Hall garden were full of tomatoes. Again I had no idea what to expect as there was Black Russian tomatoes, Tigerella, Bumblebee and Sioux. Each variety looked different. The Black Russians were quite large and were a dark green colour unripened and changed to a dark greeny red when ripe. The Tigerellas were a smaller variety that had stripes and the Bumblebees were small with little points resembling bee stings at the bottom of each fruit. The Sioux tomatoes were a large tomato nearly as large as beef tomatoes you can buy in supermarkets. Here is a photo of a ripened Black Russian tomato.

The Bumblebee tomatoes look very attractive on the tomato plant, here is a photo.

I now realise that tomatoes and cucumber plants are both heavy feeders and they shouldn't really be planted next to each other. But luckily I put plenty of organic chicken manure down and watered them regularly. The picture above shows a baby cucumber growing up the tomato plant. I thought that this was really cute! The last photo is of the Sioux tomato plant.

I sadly didn't take a photo of the Tigerella Tomatoes. It was an oversight of mine. I was too busy tending to everything to realise. At least that's my excuse!!