Emma Cooper

I got round to juicing my tomatoes and having the taste test today.

The one on the left is the juice from the Yellow Queen tomatoes. I made that one first (which is why it’s starting to settle) and I had a slurp out of it, too. The one on the right is the juice from the Yellow Submarines. There was a bit more than would fit in the glass, but considering that I had 300g more Yellow Submarines, I think the Yellow Queens were juicier.

As to the taste test – the Yellow Queen juice was very, very tomatoey. Tangy and sweet and lovely. By comparison, the Yellow Submarine juice was very bland, although no doubt I would have been quite happy with it on its own.

We’ve got some visitors coming in a couple of weeks. By then I should have some more ripe tomatoes, and I might be able to encourage them to do a taste test as well :)

Today I have sowed most of the seeds for another Garden Organic experiment: Winter Salads. I’ve sowed Pak Choi, Endive, Winter Purslane, Winter Lettuce and what they called Spinach, but I think it’s Leaf Beet. I still have Lamb’s Lettuce and Rainbow Chard to sow later, and I’ll have to see what else I want to sow for winter as well.