I’ve decided that the new door glazing isn’t making it too hot in the polytunnel – just pleasantly warm on days when the sun decides to stay out for a while. The tomato plants, which are lovers of warmth and light are definitely on their way out so I spent some time this afternoon doing some more harvesting and trimming away a lot of the vines.

At this stage in the year, there is little point waiting for green tomatoes to ripen and certainly not for flowers to turn into fruit. Instead, it makes sense to get some space cleared and then some of the plants I have been germinating in pots can get put out to grow on for winter and early spring crops. We’ll still get a few tomatoes but I’ll continue taking out the harvest vines and, probably tomorrow, I’ll get onto some of the new planting too.