Food for free!

I adore this time of year – with dew and spiders and fruit in abundance. I have five ripe tomatoes that planted themselves from last year's rotten crop. They are Gardener's Delight and should be very tasty, the poor plant it's so healthy and still setting tomatoes, I don't want to let it down, perhaps I'll make chutney from the green ones. Can you do that? I didn't get any last year as the weather was terrible and they all suffered from blight. It's always a gamble trying to grow tomatoes outside in England, these have spurred me on to try again next year.

The trees on Gracie's walk are heaving with Sloes, I'm wondering if you can make jam from them. They are very similar to damsons.



Here's another photo of my finished shawl The iPhone is a wonderful thing but its camera is shite! Such a shame.