Roma!

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I have finally picked and eaten my single laboriously cherished Roma tomato. (I was leaving it as long as possible so that I could be sure the seeds were ripe; to my relief there were in fact some inside.) To be honest it didn't taste of all that much, being 'meaty' without a lot of flavour (apparently they are known for having "a meaty texture and few seeds" and are "at their best when cooked"), but I wasn't expecting much from fruit at the tail end of the season. The remaining cherry tomatoes are very, very slowly changing colour from green to pale orange and are unlikely to be good for much when they do go.

The Roma tomato plant has now succeeded in setting at least three new little three-quarter-inch plum tomatoes, so it will be interesting to see how far it gets with those -- I shall presumably be cooking them green at some point :-p