Most kids will happily devour cherry tomatoes though some might need a bit more convincing. Here are a few fun ways to use cherry tomatoes (which can be in plentiful supply at the moment in vegie patches across the country!) and perhaps include (hide….) a few extra vegies in the food fun at the same time.
Create little cherry tomato ‘toadstools’ by placing tomato halves on top of balls of mozzarella.
Make a cherry tomato creature face by carefully cutting out a wedge shaped mouth and then joining onto a ‘body’ of grilled chicken breast or sausage.
Put together a mixed skewer of cherry tomatoes, cheese and cucumber. Everything tastes better on a skewer!
On crackers or toasted sourdough bread, assemble ladybirds made with cherry tomato and olive halves on top of layers of lettuce and hummus or cream cheese.
Out in the tomato patch, to help prolong the harvest well into autumn continue feeding tomatoes each week with Yates® Thrive® Tomato Liquid Plant Food. It’s the additional potassium in this specially formulated tomato fertiliser that encourages lots of flowers and tomato fruit.
Dilute 2 capfuls in a 9 L watering can and apply over both the foliage and around the root zone.
Here are 2 products that will help keep your tomatoes protected from the most common problems:
Yates Tomato & Vegetable Dust – a ready to apply dust combination of two fungicides to control diseases like leaf spot and blight and a naturally derived insecticide to control tomato caterpillars.
Yates Nature’s Way® Fruit Fly Control – a liquid bait that attracts and kills fruit flies, before they have a chance to lay eggs on tomatoes (which turn into little white maggots that ruin fruit). Keep applying the bait onto stems and foliage each week until the harvest has finished. Yates Nature’s Way® Fruit Fly Control is certified for use in organic gardens.
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