Grow tomatoes under glass? Yes please!
Growing up, whenever we went round the grandparents, granddad would be upstairs doing DIY and nan would be outside in the garden looking after all her plants and fruit and veg. The house was a non-stop, 30-year fix-up job that my granddad was obsessed with. Whenever we walked into an upstairs room it was like a bomb had hit it, yet there he was smiling away as he perused a catalogue for cheap built in wardrobes or looked for some advice on how to hang curtains yourself.
As good as granddad was with messing up wardrobes – and he was exceptional – he was never any good at growing tomatoes under glass. Nan, on the other hand, was amazing, and she would often use granddad’s ruined DIY attempts in her gardening, as I will demonstrate now…
Don’t panic if your home-grown tomatoes don’t look like the ones in the shops…