The towel-tomatoes have started turning colour -- not bad for outdoor-sown plants that didn't even come up until May!
And so has the odd 'extra' mini-tomato-plant , which tends to confirm that it is, in fact, one of the towel-tomatoes, impossible as this would seem from a practical point of view. The two kinds definitely do look different: the towel-tomatoes are paler green, almost a translucent colour, and are less round, and the magazine-tomatoes have a darker green stain across the top of the fruit where the towel-tomatoes are of a uniform hue.( Read more... )
( Chillies )
The Swan River daisies, which have been sitting around for months growing merrily in a pot of their own (and which I thinned out at the start of August), are now showing signs of putting out flower-heads, so I should have a late flush of flowers at the end of summer. And not yellow or orange, for a change!
( blinds )
And so has the odd 'extra' mini-tomato-plant , which tends to confirm that it is, in fact, one of the towel-tomatoes, impossible as this would seem from a practical point of view. The two kinds definitely do look different: the towel-tomatoes are paler green, almost a translucent colour, and are less round, and the magazine-tomatoes have a darker green stain across the top of the fruit where the towel-tomatoes are of a uniform hue.( Read more... )
( Chillies )
The Swan River daisies, which have been sitting around for months growing merrily in a pot of their own (and which I thinned out at the start of August), are now showing signs of putting out flower-heads, so I should have a late flush of flowers at the end of summer. And not yellow or orange, for a change!
( blinds )