Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

A couple of months ago our tunnel house got smacked by the wind.   Young tomatoes were rescued from their spot and some of them survived in medium-sized pots.   It was a matter of getting rid of that ancient, 8-meter-long tunnel house and replacing it with a new one – half the length but double the strength.   The whole renovation took a few school holidays’ weeks, but it looked pretty darn good.   I decided to plant the few tomatoes that were still struggling in the pots and have a go in the new tunnel house. Plant them in fresh soil with Wet and Forget SeaWeed Tea as a potash-rich fertiliser.   By the time they started getting into good growth again, the plants created tomato flowers with the idea of becoming tomato fruit in the future.   With the tunnel house door open during the day and the odd Bumblebee inspecting the new flowers (getting nectar and pollen) the new tomatoes were getting their treatment known as “pollination”.  Pollination with bumblebees is generally di