Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Arb, moneymaker tomato is "climb" type [AKA indeterminate, keeps growing upwards if left to itself].

However, they can be left to sprawl and will provide some tomatoes, tying up and keeping to one main stem in our climate allows what sun there is to ripen the toms, and helps keep the slugs etc way by being off the ground, plus no plant energy wasted on leaves and non-fruiting shoots

Honestly, keeping them to one stem is not too hard or time-consuming, it may seem daunting reading about it, but it really is a doddle, and will have the added benefit of getting up close and looking at the plants before any possible problem gets hold

YBE, can't help on furniture, I only had the plastic bucket type stacking chairs, and they went brittle in the sun and now packed away with my chocolate fireguard

Up earlier than wished because failed to doze off again . However, time was not wasted, I have already fed & watered the pots at the front and now feeling virtuous

T & M seed order completed and on its way to Farway Towers

I'm going to try runner Enorma again, used to grow it years ago but went to the dark side & tried others, I've also opted for the flat yellow French climber Goldfield, I used to grow the flat green ones years back, and they cropped well, gone for yellow this time, just for looks

Now I'm talking about beans I think I may just poke a few Firestorm runner seeds in an unused pot, if the weather continues as it is, sunny, then maybe more beans would be useful? I can always give excess crop away

Flowers opened on my tomato, Limoncito. In my conservatory. My first time growing this one, so fingers & eyes duly crossed. One Bloody Butcher flower has also opened up, I've grown them before & I like it, not just because the name makes maiden aunts clutch their pearls , it's also tasty. BTW AR, I see it doesn't mind cool, perhaps worth a punt with you?

Here's the Limoncito flowers

ArbitraryRandom

LessImpecunious said:

ArbitraryRandom said:

I think it looks more like the toadflax in that the leaves are the same kind of needles as lavender leaves. 

But looking at pictures online, what I've got has much more of a blue hue to the leaves/stem than I can see. I don't know if that's an environmental or age thing? 

  I can't see any leaves...even right-clicking and enlarging image ... puzzled emoji (which we don't seem to have!). But having zoomed in and looked closer I agree - the calyces are actually more toadflax-like than on first glance, and there's a spur...embarrassed emoji (we don't have that either...)

I have the advantage over you in having the actual plant only a few steps away from the keyboard  

Here's some more pictures of them both, just because  (for scale, the card is about 10x23inches)

LessImpecunious

Now I see leaves! Definitely Linaria...

ArbitraryRandom

Good job I prefer purple to pink! 

-taff

LessImpecunious said:

Now I see leaves! Definitely Linaria...

Well thank god! I had that growing in a previous garden and could I remember the name? COuld I find it on google? No, obviously not. People power, that;s what that is..

@Dusty, I got to poke and prod and squeeze quite a few oreganos yesterday, and rosemaries, which have apparently now been rechristened as Salvias according to plant genus type gubbins...She is not amused. Really really not amused. Happened in 2017 though so the news travels slowly - "Rosmarinus officinalis became Salvia rosmarinus"

YoungBlueEyes

Here’s my toms Arb. If we hadn’t had such a long cool cloudy spell they’d be further on still. 

Not lovely and cool here now. That sun would sear the scalp off ya! 🥵

-taff

Are the lighter ones a bush variety? They look a bit yellow, maybe an epsom salt feed?

pink_poppy

Thanks for the mound suggestions - shovel, garden fork and rake are all on my list.

Dusty, I had to google riddling - it’s pretty much what I thought it was though. I’m not sure that’s what the mound is the result of - nearly every square inch of the garden has stones and/or rocks - it’s a nightmare and I regularly curse the previous owners...

Farway, do all tomato flowers look the same?? I have at least 5 on Tom 🍅 and they look the same as your pic.

Twopenny, I love that rose - I remember you mentioned it a while ago and I promptly forgot about it - definitely one to look out for at the garden centre now that I’ve made a note...

The weather here has been scorchio all week 🥵 and same again forecast for next week...

pink_poppy

We are the Batman... 🦇😂

pink_poppy

Just had a wander in the garden (as you do) and I spotted this lovely white aquilegia (beautifully framed with more carp from the garden). I’m guessing it’s self seeded there, as it’s not somewhere you would plant anything...