Next generation

I disembowelled the seeds from a number of towel-tomatoes last night, just in case some of them weren't sufficiently ripe (you really can't tell from the outside which fruits will have decent seeds in at all), and laid them out on a fresh piece of towel for next year.


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The Demon Red chillies are now all in flower, and the first flower has now dropped off to leave a little fruit behind it. So they just have to do some very, very rapid growing and ripening over the next month or so. ( Read more... )

I am still waiting to see what colour the 'pink' Swan River daisies are going to be -- frankly it looks more as if they are going to be white than anything else! They seem to have an exceeding odd method of flower formation where the buds open to display the centre, and then the petals grow inwards from the edge of the opening to cover it over again.
The one in the largest pot (which admittedly was put in there in the first place because it was threatening to overbalance all the time in its previous pot) has grown to a quite ridiculous size, much larger than last year, and is over-topping even the heritage tomatoes. The blue Swan River daisies also now have flower buds on, but because the first sowing failed, they are still some way behind the 'pink'.

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This is within the last 24 hours. Now, one user went through reading several stories and leaving one kudos on each, which is nice but not completely unusual -- but what on *earth* happened to "A Child of the Law"? I can only assume that someone must have actively recommended it somewhere, given that this was a story that had only gained 20 views, 1 kudos and 1 bookmark in the course of the last six months...!