A small Ponders End garden is home to what may be a gardening first – naturally square tomatoes.

Metim Osman has a history of unusual plants in the garden of his Naylor Grove home – in 2009 he appeared in the pages of the Enfield Independent after growing a 10ft tomato plant.

Now, the green fingered 67-year-old has found the rectangular fruits growing on his patch, and admits he is at a loss to explain why.

He said: “My first thought is that I must have bought peppers by mistake, but I cut one open, and they are definitely tomatoes.

“I don’t know why they look like that, but I think they taste better than the round ones, they are easier to cut too.

“I asked my neighbours and they said they have never seen ones like this either.”

Mr Osman says he has had interest in his tomatoes from media as far afield as Germany, but says he has no plans to set up a square tomato business in the three square foot back garden of his home.

He said: “I put nothing unusual on the plants, I just bought the cheapest seeds from the pound shop and they started growing square.

“I like my garden, I like nature, the look of it, and it’s decorated how I like it. Something like this is just a curiosity.”