The last weekend of august, wet and windy, is summer over? I hope not as half my dahlias have not been polite enough to flower yet. Having missed the local flower show by 2 weeks, at least my greenhouse tomatoes have decided to fruit, there are quite a few for my #SixOnSaturday. I’ll start with today’s harvest. This lot might get chomped tonight, or chopped for the first freezer bag of the season.

As you’ve seen above, I try to grow a few different varieties each year. Despite some advertising themselves as ‘early’ I’ve had nothing at all this year until mid-august. Aside from cherries in red and yellow, I’ve got a lovely new one this year, huge zagadka, a stripey beefsteak.

More solidly yellow, and fairly early, this yellow mid-sized offering is sweet and juicy.

Nowhere near ready yet, but my most radical attempt this year, has been blue fire. Currently a bit greeny-black and rock hard, there may be promise to come. Even the stems and parts of the leaves are dark on this one.

Another strange one, these are red-green striped, and a hint at being heart shaped. Audrey’s love! She’s quite tasty too.

Last but I’m hoping very much not least, Costoluto, not quite there yet, but these have fruited very well and becoming a very pleasing bright red when they ripen.

I hope you enjoyed my longed-for tomato harvest. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, its a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot