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A High Wind in July
15 July 2023 02:33 pmVery windy today (fortunately my bike is so heavy and was so heavily laden that I didn't have nearly as much problem with gusts as I feared).
My plants are all so intertwined that there isn't a lot of danger of most of them falling over; the towel-tomatoes, being all trussed up with string, certainly couldn't if they wanted to! I did discover that the Argyranthemum from the kitchen windowsill, which had been having a holiday outside (as usual, this completely cured the infestation) had ripened its seed over the last couple of days, and most of it had proceeded to thrash about and blow away, doubtless to end up in other pots where it will get mistaken for the endemic corn-marigolds and uprooted at the seedling stage :-p
I did managed to save some remaining bits that were clinging on, and there is another flowerhead that hasn't finished ripening yet.
I was a bit alarmed that the first flower-bud on the Demon Red chilli appears to be hanging *down*, since I remember that the original plants dismayed me by growing fruit that pointed straight up in the air... but apparently they do flower downwards but fruit upwards!
My plants are all so intertwined that there isn't a lot of danger of most of them falling over; the towel-tomatoes, being all trussed up with string, certainly couldn't if they wanted to! I did discover that the Argyranthemum from the kitchen windowsill, which had been having a holiday outside (as usual, this completely cured the infestation) had ripened its seed over the last couple of days, and most of it had proceeded to thrash about and blow away, doubtless to end up in other pots where it will get mistaken for the endemic corn-marigolds and uprooted at the seedling stage :-p
I did managed to save some remaining bits that were clinging on, and there is another flowerhead that hasn't finished ripening yet.
I was a bit alarmed that the first flower-bud on the Demon Red chilli appears to be hanging *down*, since I remember that the original plants dismayed me by growing fruit that pointed straight up in the air... but apparently they do flower downwards but fruit upwards!