Ah – deep, warming oranges.
Santorange won me my first ever tomato prize. A Suttons’ Grafted – this cute-sized plum tomato is a great shape, a great colour and the trusses form a beautiful draping arc. Watching the individual fruits ripen down the truss, is like watching a painted canvas come to life. So how could it not return ? And may be by then, I’ll manage to spell it correctly. Looking in the catalogue, I realise the clue was always there; Orange = Santorange but that hasn’t stopped me spelling it incorrectly as Santorage all this time !
And then Sungold – I didn’t do right by Sungold this year. Whether I planted it in the wrong places or the wrong containers, or squeezed it out (it is the unruly teenager of tomato vines) it just didn’t deliver – which is not like Sungold. So next year it will be back where it belongs as sun king of the plot.
Photo by looseends ( and if you click thro’ to Flickr a nice Sungold sauce recipe as well).
