Strike three...Aunt Gertie's Gold is out!

[Raymondo]

The saga of growing Aunt Gertie's Gold ...

2004 - Wiped out by disease and pests in a particularly humid year

2005 - Wiped out by a late freeze

2006 - yesterday, a massive hail storm decimated the garden.

Here is a picture of one patch just after the storm subsided:


Working from front to back we have (had) Jaune Flammée x Paragon F1 (my breeding project), Jaune Flammée, Paragon, Aunt Gertie's Gold, Kellogg's Breakfast, Tasmanian Blushing Yellow and Victoria.

It's way too late to sow more Aunt Gertie's Gold. I don't think I'm meant to grow this tomato! It will be interesting to see which ones recover.

As a consolation, it did look rather beautiful for a few hours. This was the view from the front door at 4pm yesterday, a midsummer's afternoon!!!


Oh, I should add that one month earlier we had snow followed by a hard frost!

Of course, global warming, as we all know, is not a serious problem.