Topic: spreading cherry tomato!

[peanuts]

This year we grew  one cherry tomato plant a long way away from all the other tomatoes, in order to let it spread, and it
has certainly  done that! It is at least 12 feet across! You can't actually see the tomatoes ripening, but we have been picking a big bowlful almost every day, and there are plenty more to come, hidden in the undergrowth.  And although the leaves showed signs of blight from early on, it has never destroyed the plant, which as you can see still looks relatively healthy.

[galina]

And the butternuts look very good too!  Ah the joys of gardening in France 

Sorry!  Just envious 

Were they both grown on your manure bed?

[peanuts]

Yes, both the squashes and the cherry tom are on what is now the old manure heap, as we didn't have any delivered  from next door farm this year. Heap is perhaps a misnomer, as we had   three huge farm trailersful, so it took a large area - more a mound or hill! (see below) So the heap has subsided somewhat and is nice and friable, but still retains moisture very well.  I just can't believe how bursting with health the   cherry tom looks now, even after a lot of rain, when inside the plant there are (and have been for weeks)
 loads of fallen blighted leaves.