Anna Pavord: 'Is there anything more satisfying than growing your own juicy tomatoes?'

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Of all the crops we grow here at home, nothing gives me more pleasure than tomatoes. Last season was terrific and for once, the outdoor tomatoes cropped even more heavily than the ones in the greenhouse. That's a sweeping statement. Shall I say instead that I had enough seed-raised plants of two varieties of tomato to grow them both inside and out and that in both cases, the outside ones did better? On 'Sungold' (Simpson's Seeds, £1.90 for 10 seeds) each truss on the outdoor plants had at least 20 fruit. Inside, there weren't so many trusses and not so many fruit on each one.











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