Tomatoes

Our first attempts 3 years ago at growing tomatoes here in Wide Bay Queensland, Australia had mixed success.  All cherry tomato varieties were 100% successful, most of what I then would have called "normal looking" tomatoes failed. Failed in the sense that they all were eaten by bugs. The bugs however left the cherry tomatoes alone. In this, our 4th year of being gardeners, we have just had a 2 month period where Nana was really sick and required 24/7 care and NO work was done in the garden. Weeds proliferated and grew so high you could not see the vegetables in between. Tomatoes self generated in the midst of all this from the compost pile, including larger varieties. None of these vegetables or tomatoes have been eaten by bugs. We have had a bounty to eat for last month from this backyard harvest. This experience reiterated to me the fact that traditional "tidy" gardens just do not work here where we live. The fact that bugs got lost in the maze of traditional " so called weeds" was an eye opener. I have since learnt that some of the common garden weeds I have growing can actually be eaten as salad vegetables! Plantain being one of the main surprises. Will be posting photos soon to show our self seeding tomatoes ( just staked them) and pumpkin and corn!!! Happy gardening bloggers
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