These are purple beauty sweet peppers from the real seed company. Have been moved from the Wendy and live for the moment in the poly.
Compared to initial fruits, these are somewhat bigger.
A collection of sweet peppers and chillies harvested from the poly.
Am still waiting:
There have been only 3 that have turned on the vin.
I are one, to check. Small, sweet. A different shade of red, compared to shop bought. These are more orangey, than letter box red.
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.
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.
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
Have only ever sown onions from seed once before, and didn’t have much success. Am trying again, with some Ailsa Craig seeds. Two trays, with seed modularised. May well be too early or too late depending on what you see or read.
There are lots of green tomatoes hanging around, biding their time. Mama has suggested an experiment, that hasn’t been done for a while.
Have harvested a handful of the tomatoes. I know one of them is a Ukrainian purple. The others i couldn’t identify. These have been washed and are now sat in a transparent glass Pyrex bowl; positioned on a sunny window sill.
Here they are, sat next to the fickle young lady that is Ma’s Holy basil. To holy basil doesn’t like to be moved.
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural hobbit
Bit of a tomato humdinging special for you all today. Thought it might be useful to take some photographic evidence. I like taking photographic evidence, and it makes you all pay some welcome, loving attention.
I have never grown so many tomatoes, or had this level of success with triffid like vines and bush habits. These are, with the exception of the Ukrainian Purple; the tiddler tomatos who had tantrums from the classroom. The weather has helped, and we have a sprawling mass of foliage and fruit. A feat of engineering is required to truss up….the trusses.
It would be nice to actually get some ripened, red and yellow fruits. So to facilitate that, I have been trimming off the excess foliage. This should help the air pass through, and stop the leaves getting sweaty and horrible; as well as prevent any of the fruits being shaded. There are some large fruits, and also some diddly ones. A testament, to the different varieties that were sown. It is very hard to believe, that these are the tiny tiddlers that were started off in the classroom. They aren’t particularly pretty, either! You would never associate the fruits cropping here, with the smooth, shiny fruits that you would find in the supermarket. I think there are some yellow and black ones in there. Again, you wouldn’t see these very often in the supermarket. Will be intrigued to see the yellow ones and the black ones. The black ones are cherry tomatoes, I think.
Some silent movies for you, to peruse at your leisure. I do hope that they are not like watching paint dry. You might have to spot the tomato, and look very carefully.
A bit wonky, yes. How many of you tilted your head to the left to watch it? 😉
The colour is a bit off. The green is starting to change, actually. Going from green to yellow.
The plum shaped ones-the wonky ones-are ukranian purple. That was an adopted one. There is a non-wonky ones in there too.
I couldn’t tell you, what is which variety. One day I will label. I did actually find that one of the beasts is still in a paper pot. This has in turn rooted out of the paper pot and into the dirt of the raised beds. Had to dig it in a bit without pulling it out.
Shall see what happens
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit
Finally! I became bored of seeing them sat on the pathway.
These are the sole survivors of the classroom experiment; and they were looking decidedly sorry for themselves. Have sunk them today and netted them. Must make a return visit however, to attach cabbage collars to them. Have never had any successful cabbages, so would like to have some. There is netting and also the blue pellets of doom. Though a few of them have been filligreed by slimers all ready.
And to cheer you up:
Yours in anticipation,
Horticultural Hobbit
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