Eaten by caterpillars
16 July 2022 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeDespite assiduous caterpillar-killing on my part, the pak choi seedlings are being stripped to bare stems :(
(The ones that aren't also attempting to flower; I wonder if I should let them. But they say that means you are 'selecting for a tendency to bolt', and that the offspring are likely to be unsatisfactory...)
On the brighter side, I ate my first towel-tomato yesterday, and it was delicious -- the proverbial explosion of flavour. Unexpected, as the first tomatoes last year were a relative disappointment. (And about a month later, I see...)
I also went plum-picking, since the street trees locally are dropping over-ripe fruit, but found very little fruit on the trees or under them and concluded I had been too late. Weird, as again last year I went in August, a month later, and got a heavy crop.
(The ones that aren't also attempting to flower; I wonder if I should let them. But they say that means you are 'selecting for a tendency to bolt', and that the offspring are likely to be unsatisfactory...)
On the brighter side, I ate my first towel-tomato yesterday, and it was delicious -- the proverbial explosion of flavour. Unexpected, as the first tomatoes last year were a relative disappointment. (And about a month later, I see...)
I also went plum-picking, since the street trees locally are dropping over-ripe fruit, but found very little fruit on the trees or under them and concluded I had been too late. Weird, as again last year I went in August, a month later, and got a heavy crop.