FOR the most part it has been a bountiful year in our fruit and veg patch, with welcome gluts of everything from berries and figs to beans and tomatoes.
The combination of warm weather and rain was a blessing, if a mixed one because it set the scene for an outbreak of blight just as the outside tomatoes were starting to come on line.
We managed to mitigate the situation and salvage some tomatoes by removing and binning affected fruits and greenery as