Eaten by caterpillars

[igenlode]

Despite 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.

Comments

[watervole]

Maybe someone else also likes street plums? THat's the logical explanation.

[igenlode]

These are actually wild (or feral) river plums, where the trees grow on the banks of the river and the vast majority of the crop would either only be accessible by boat, or else drops from on high (the trees are about 20 feet tall) and rolls straight down the banks into the water anyway :-D

But I think you're right and the locals have cottoned onto the foraging possibilities... I was just surprised that there wasn't more inaccessible (almost all of it) or unripe fruit visible up on the trees, even if there wasn't much on the path underneath them.

[watervole]

I wonder if something caused a lot of the fruit to drop before it was ripe.