The tomatoes in the polytunnel have had quite a lot of fruit on them over the last few weeks but it has been showing very little signs of shifting in colour. Today I decided to draw a line under the season, grabbing the last harvest of ripe and semi-ripe ones, abandoning the unripe ones and cutting down the rest of the vines.

It hasn’t been my best year for tomatoes, partly down to a late start and lax pruning regime but I’ve got some seeds saved and look forward to a better go in 2024, when I won’t be caught in the dilemma of not wanting to get going because I don’t know when the polytunnel will be ready.