I'm hopeful, maybe ignorantly, that the warm September we are having might actually see one of tomato plants produce, even if it's the tiniest green tomato ever seen I would be chuffed. The mini greenhouse I have is not situated in the path of a lot of direct sunlight so I have moved the stronger tomato's to a sunny part of the garden in hope this might encourage them to flower. According to my research this is unlikely, but I have nothing to lose by trying.
I pulled some radishes yesterday, they were such an arrange of shapes I was quite confused, they all went in at the same time, same soil, same greenhouse, so why do they look like this?
Does anyone know if I should replant the little sprouty looking ones?
Also, the ones I did pick looked and tasted lovely straight after, but by this morning they had wilted and gone completely soft?
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Monday, 12 September 2011
My Tomato Conundrum
It's not really a conundrum. I know that my plants are not going to produce and fruits, I planted them too late in the year and I don't want to admit this to myself. I planted my tomato seeds in July (I think) and it's now mid September, I have been reading and researching and so far it seems they will probably not produce tomato's in time or make it through the frosts.
Here are my biggest plants...
I know they are on a slippery slope out of here, but I live in hope.
Here are my biggest plants...
I know they are on a slippery slope out of here, but I live in hope.
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Please. Help Me, I'm a total novice.
So, I'm very new to gardening, it all started a few months ago when I went to a Mexican restaurant (Wahaca, it's delish) and as a nice touch at the end they gave everyone a little packet of chili seeds, I planted them that weekend in old food tins I found in the recycling bin and stuck them up in a little plastic greenhouse at the end of my father in-law's garden as me and Chris are currently 'between home's, being a relatively newish member of my other half's family, his clan all naturally assumed I was interested in gardening, which resulted in relations bringing me other seeds they had at home, shoved away at the back of the kitchen draw. I got tomato's, spring onions and radishes. I thought what the hell, there is something fun about it, and I planted all the seeds in a variety of improvised tubs and watered them whenever I remembered, or about every other day.
Within a month it looked like there was a jungle in the mini greenhouse, the plants were growing too big for their pots, there was a little outbreak of some sort of white fly all over my chili's, I'd added over the weeks a seed tray of cherry pips and the tops from a punnet of strawberries sprinkled with some soil which were now sprouting.
Even as an inexperienced gardener it did cross my mind that August was a bit late to start planting such an array of fruit and veg but I got completely carried away in the excitement of seeing things actually growing especially after the success of my radishes.
Now I am halfway through September, my tomato's and chili's are yet to flower, well enough produce fruit and all my plants are probably going to perish during the miserable English winter. I have however discovered, that although I have a lot to learn, I could potentially be 'green fingered' or referred to by that tarnished term a 'gardener,' or at least willing to learn?
I am adopting that past time of the over sixties and/or hippi eco warriors with holey brown jumpers.
Although I'm sure I have had a few raised eyebrows from my extremely unoutdoorsey, ready meal eating friends who's flagstone gardens are only there to have a fag, and who are yet to see my usually manicured nails chipped and dirty. I'm quite liking the idea of growing my own veg though, especially being a vegetarian, I just hope that next year I will actually be able to eat some of it!
Now I'm off to Selfridges to find myself a brown holey jumper....
Within a month it looked like there was a jungle in the mini greenhouse, the plants were growing too big for their pots, there was a little outbreak of some sort of white fly all over my chili's, I'd added over the weeks a seed tray of cherry pips and the tops from a punnet of strawberries sprinkled with some soil which were now sprouting.
Even as an inexperienced gardener it did cross my mind that August was a bit late to start planting such an array of fruit and veg but I got completely carried away in the excitement of seeing things actually growing especially after the success of my radishes.
Now I am halfway through September, my tomato's and chili's are yet to flower, well enough produce fruit and all my plants are probably going to perish during the miserable English winter. I have however discovered, that although I have a lot to learn, I could potentially be 'green fingered' or referred to by that tarnished term a 'gardener,' or at least willing to learn?
I am adopting that past time of the over sixties and/or hippi eco warriors with holey brown jumpers.
Now I'm off to Selfridges to find myself a brown holey jumper....
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My first Radish. Woooohooo.
Well. It was a proud day today when I pulled my first radish. Although (according to every gardening book and website I have read) it is one of the easiest vegetables to grow, it's still my first ever vegetable and I feel extremely pleased and proud of it, I only got four and they tasted lovely, they had a lot more flavor than any shop bought one's I've tried, they all had a really peppery after taste, no idea what type they were, I paid no notvie to the seed packet.
I have left a selection of other radishes still in the ground (or old baked bean tins which are quickly going rusty), all sizes and I'm hoping by pulling them up I will learn through trial and error when the best time to harvest them is.
I have left a selection of other radishes still in the ground (or old baked bean tins which are quickly going rusty), all sizes and I'm hoping by pulling them up I will learn through trial and error when the best time to harvest them is.
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