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Tomatoes are in full swing at the moment. The dark plum tomatoes are the
Japanese Black Trifele tomato, one of the stars of my plot this year, a wonderful new tomato for me. The others are the
black cherry tomato - one of the best flavours ever, the yellow one
Ildi - thousands of them! and the small reds are
Gardeners Delight.
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Now this picture above is what I expect
Gardeners Delight tomato to look like. Double strands of smallish but not cherry sized tomatoes. This picture was from my 2010 crop.
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And this year all of my
Gardeners Delight tomatoes have sort of
reverted back to bunches of smaller cherry tomatoes.Perhaps I used a different seed packet, perhaps it was older seed, or perhaps it was my own saved seed. Anyway, this is quite different from the tomato last year. Not unpleasant but I wouldn't have chosen to grow one like this.
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Stop press news! There are now 4 lovely shoots on my
turmeric pot in the greenhouse! I'm keeping it warm and moist. Looking good!
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My
garlic chives are just setting flower at the moment. The bees love them! These lovely white flowers always produce masses of seed heads. The plant itself is a very healthy, hardy perennial.
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Another dilemma on Matron's patch this year. I have several very healthy and very large
Mexican Tomatillo plants. I have grown them many times before, but this time, despite lots of apparent pollination from the bees, none of them have set any fruit. I would have thought that tomatillo would be like tomatoes in that they were self fertile. My tomatillo plants are quite a distance apart from each other, I wonder if they would have pollinated each other if they were closer together. Hmmmmm. Any ideas?
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I planted my
leek seedlings just a week or so ago. They are romping away, thanks to a generous downpour of rain and a thick layer of cut grass mulch!