Monthly Archives: September 2013

Squashes

Triffic triffid

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The cobnut, is all very leafy and large. And having lots of babies.

One, I’ve never grown a cobnut. Gladys was close. Two, never had that many babies. Counted at least four. The concern here is that if any of the babies are actually fertilised. Not sure if they are, flowers; both girls and boys are open. The girl ones, only just. The boy ones have no pollen in them, as I found out when looking into one.

classroom experimentation

Plugging a leek

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These are the only surviving classroom leeks. Less than half a dozen. Maybe the plot has its own little microcosm. And I don’t know much about these variety. So I’m going to keep an eye on those.

chillies

Der colour purple

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The real seeds purple rainbow chilli has been by far the most prolific chilli I have ever grown. These beautiful little creatures have been arriving fairly frequently. One observation, these are very thirsty plants. If they don’t drink, their flowers fall off and they get very stressed. They can easily drink a pint of water a day. A pint. A whole pint glass.

Oh, and that’s Nigel. Refusing to go red.

Yours in anticipation,

Horticultural Hobbit

classroom experimentation

Mean green

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I have become a bit fed up of seeing burgeoning tomato plants and the fruit still being green. I had experimented before, putting a few on the window sill. Only mother used them before they had a chance.

Have now harvested a few.

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Some of them are huge. Some of them
are beautifully ugly. You don’t see that sort in the supermarket, now do you. With the exception of the cherry tomatoes, they are all of a tomato size.

These are all the plants that started their lives off in the classroom. The tiddler tomatoes that didn’t look much a few months ago. They are now beasts.

These could be any number of different colours. Red, yellow, purple or black. Contained in these trays, these are now sat in the four tier blowaway to ripen.

Yours in anticipation,

Horticultural Hobbit