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  • One of my tomato stems (the whole plant is Y shaped) is snapping. I think it's the weight of the 5 toms that are quite big, but not ripe. I might have to snip them off and stick them in a South facing window?? Or sacrifice the top bit of the stem?? Decisions...

    Can you tie it up to something with a bit of string to take the weight? 

    I remember my grandad having a lot of what looked like little coat hangers for his toms when they were near ripe. 
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  • Dustyevsky
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    edited 1 August 2023 at 9:10PM
    Managed to dig out the first pathway in the new polytunnel. It didn't seem like much but I riddled it all, and pushed 5 barrow-loads of excess 100m to the wild garden. I thought I'd finished dropping soil on the slope there, but there were too many stones in the stuff I put there last year and the weather exposed them. :|
    Inspired by Gorse's pictures of the bees, I poked about with my camera for a while before the rain resumed. Soon found one of Blue Eyes' favourite insects!  >:)
  • Farway
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    Rain overnight, but just a bit windy & mild now
    The runners have been rescued and are propped back upright by two new canes. Come winter, I'll replace the old canes and start fresh next year. 
    The only reason I didn't do it this year was because I did not intend growing runners due to poor aphid slug riddled results last year, however the Great Veg Shortage this year gave me a kick up the bottom to do something constructive to help me out, and so far it's paid off, well ten fresh stringless beans & counting
    Oh aye Farway, you’ve got proper gales and stuff tomorrow :o 

    Well the rain has held off here, despite some thick dark clouds, so that’s my 3rd wash out now. And I’ve spotted a wineberry ripened! Also I’ve a couple of toms (possibly). They feel ripe when I squidge them so I think they’re yellow and done rather than red ones that’s half done. I’m all giggity :lol: 
    Yay, well done you, the toms look lovely, hope they taste good as well. And wineberry :) , waiting to hear the taste test, are they perhaps one of those fruits that has to be really ripe to be great

    Your yellow tom, I picked a Sungold yesterday while sorting beans out, grown outside & warmed by the sun, it was superb and if you see a cheap packet it's one I can recommend for taste, unfortunately it's a F1 hybrid so saving seed will be hit & miss. However, reading the blurb it seems there is a baby brother Sun Baby which is open pollinated, so I'll keep an eye open for that

    Good news about my Boysenberry, it has fresh growth, so I assume it's settled in and sorting itself out. The new growth is not yet large enough to start training yet
    The Merton Thornless blackberry is laden, this rain should plump then up & hopefully I'll pick a pile tomorrow. I'll freeze them because the apples are not ready yet, but they're also swelling with the rain
    twopenny said:

    Wildflower meadow looked less as the poppies had been hit by the rain but non gardening friend tried and said maybe she could plant wildflowers and flax so a perhaps.
    Just looked round her immaculate easy care garden pre set as it was formally a rental with envy. N'er a thing out of place but with fruit trees. I'm still trying to compute.
    I think I need to recalculate. Abs and scheme planning may be needed.

    Cloud all day, smattering of rain. Picnic ok, watched the sun over Wales as we sat there.
    I have a fabulous photo of a scarecrow made of plants for tomorrow. Exhausted today, green bin out to surprise the bin men at silly o'clock tomorrow - and snooze breath....


    Oh and Farway, another fig?
    I had coffee and toffee crisp tray bake by the sea after the blood test  :D 

    I love flax colour, used to see fields of blue in Wiltshire on the way to my Mum's years back, that & yellow from rape
    Flax is a very useful plant in all ways, and not just for cricket bats, 
    OT, one of my ancestors worked in a flax processing factory, near Beaminster, Dorset, before cotton imports took the living away  https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/10334082.flax-to-grow-again-in-west-dorset/


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  • Dustyevsky
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    Hmm, notifications have stopped again. I didn't change anything. :/
    wort said:
    my aquilegia are mostly the muddy mauve and purple ones dotted around like everything else never a clump! I did have one of the lovely cream and purple ones like the fab pic on here, but it seems to have taken itself off or married a muddy mauve. Missed out on the white ones offered, so will watch how everyone gets on with interest/envy .
    Dusty that is a beautiful thrush is it still frequenting your garden?
    The thrush has been active in the last 15 mins, and it must have a nest nearby, as it flies off with a beak full of worms and is back again quickly. With the amount of rain falling now, it's doing very well!

    I still have white aquilegia seed; not a lot, but enough. If you want some, PM your details. I'll be near a pillar box on Friday, when the Met promise no rain for us! People must be ruthless regarding any muddy colours and hoik them out as soon as seen. We used to, and our old garden had a great display. I'll look for a photo, but fear that was pre-digital. :*
    I was puzzled by your flax and cricket bat comment, Farway. I'm not the sportiest person, but then I remembered the business of oiling it, same as for tool handles.
    As we're on tomato stories, here's my first truss of Sungold. It seems 'someone' has already snaffled at least one of them! :'( None has reached the kitchen yet!

  • wort
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    @Dustyevsky thanks for your kind offer, I’ve PM you. I have a very tiny bird at the moment very loud chirping sound tried to get a pic but it’s too quick. It’s tail sticks up , possibly a wren?? Maybe the owner of the tiny nest in the shrub, though I haven’t seen any bird there .
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