First Batch of Tommies!

Our first successful batch of Tommies!!! After the miseries we had a year ago with possums, it's sooo exciting to pull in our first crop!!

Some of the got a little burnt with the hot weather we had recently, but we've got enough here to make a nice bruchetta for dinner tonight.

I'd love to grow more things in our backyard. We've got rosemary and mint and chives, but you just can't beat picking your own food and eating it - it tastes a million times better than store bought, plus knowing you nurtured it from a seed makes it all the more satisfying!

Devastation

Our once flourishing tommy plan was rudely demolished in the cover of darkness the other night. We awoke to find one of the stakes bent right to the ground providing a nice little ramp for our resident possums to climb up and devour our juicy produce.
I had gone to great lengths to protect the budding tomatoes that were growing, by placing the toe of a stock over EACH ONE and then stapling it in place.
The possums managed to de-bunk my protection methods and ripped the toms off the tree and ate through the stocking.

We are so annoyed. I am no longer allowed to mention the words “possum” or “tomato” in the house.

what annoys me even more is that they left them HALF eaten!!!

Apologies for my bloggin absence - with a wedding to plan (only SIX weeks now!!!) I ahve been pretty crazy!!!!

getting redder

theres a bit of dust on them to stop the million bugs attacking it. but it's nearly eating time!!

From little things, HUGE things grow!!

This is our tomato plant, and it's nearing a height taller than me.

Sorry for the dark, "midnight lurker" style picture, but I just had to take a pic of our tomato "tree" before I forget (and I remembered at like 10pm last night!!)

We're still yet to harvest our first tomato but they are mammoth in size!! I just can't wait to taste them.
These are the only things left after the possums ate our Chilli's, chives, rocket and fuchsias.