The forecast for the West Somerset rainforest at the tail end of this week was looking as though it might get a bit chilly, so on Wednesday I stripped all the remaining tomatoes from the plants I left in the polytunnel. Amazingly the plants were still flowering, which I guess demonstrates just how warm it has been here, even into the second week of November.
There weren’t a huge number of fruit left and most of them weren’t even close to ripe, but hopefully a few days indoors in the relative warmth will encourage them to turn red. Or yellow, if that’s the colour they are intended to be.
The plants were also completely clear of blight, which I’ve always considered a certainty at this point of the year. Another thing that can be attributed to the weather, I suspect.