Field Study's Man in E11 reports from the last days of the 2013 polytunnel...
tomato crop
Polytunnel 21st September
The 21st September found us laying waste to the organic profusion of our polytunnel interior - a prodigious multicultural intertwining and layering of flora and fauna - a field we have referred to as 'the polytunnel of love supreme'.
Polytunnel 4th August
On this, the Autumnal Equinox, the first day of fall, the sun will have risen over the polythene firmament of a very desolate landscape, haunted by traces of abundance and all that plenty brings. It was the sight of blight that instigated such a drastic clearance.
Blight afflicted tomatoes - 21/9/13?
If not the devouring spread of a fungus, then there were still the faecal traces of the hordes of caterpillars to remind us of other voracious appetites for our crops.
Caterpillar excrement - 21st September?
I found this field observation to accompany our record of the garden of scatological delights .....
We chose to burn the remains of the polytunnel vegetation rather than compost it because we were wary of a large number of (unripe) tomatoes which might have harboured, via their seeds, the fungus through the winter. The qualified advice we have looked at states we should not save the seed of blight afflicted plants and fruit.
This poses a dilemma for Field Study's Man in E11 - for there is one tomato he is particularly proud of - a fruit that expresses some of the multifarious ramifications of his studies of the field. The dilemma is, should he save the seed of this specimen?
Tomato - 14th September.
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