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igenlodeIt just just dawned on me that the Russian indeclinable (and hence of foreign origin) noun пальто is of course the French paletot, taken straight out of the nineteenth century -- just as the French redingote is, reputedly, the English 'riding-coat'...!
Another of my tomato plants -- from the first batch this time -- has damped off while actually flowering; they are supposed to be way beyond it at this stage of maturity :-(
I can only assume that it is an issue with contaminated compost/pots, since the plants are growing outdoors in a windy position with lots of natural light; it *could* be that they are too crowded together and that I am over-watering them (of course it rained torrentially again yesterday)... Fortunately this was one of the 'spare' plants that I hadn't potted on and was planning to give away; I have given away all but two of my Roma tomatoes and one(!) surviving spare towel-tomato so far.
The first flower opened on the sweetbriar this morning, and there was a bumble-bee on it. (Sadly these wild roses aren't scented -- it's the leaves that carry the scent, but only when they are fresh and moist, and the leaves on mine are usually pretty leathery.)
At least one of the seedlings potted up as Gypsophila elegans has come into flower and turned out to be alyssum :-p
Another of my tomato plants -- from the first batch this time -- has damped off while actually flowering; they are supposed to be way beyond it at this stage of maturity :-(
I can only assume that it is an issue with contaminated compost/pots, since the plants are growing outdoors in a windy position with lots of natural light; it *could* be that they are too crowded together and that I am over-watering them (of course it rained torrentially again yesterday)... Fortunately this was one of the 'spare' plants that I hadn't potted on and was planning to give away; I have given away all but two of my Roma tomatoes and one(!) surviving spare towel-tomato so far.
The first flower opened on the sweetbriar this morning, and there was a bumble-bee on it. (Sadly these wild roses aren't scented -- it's the leaves that carry the scent, but only when they are fresh and moist, and the leaves on mine are usually pretty leathery.)
At least one of the seedlings potted up as Gypsophila elegans has come into flower and turned out to be alyssum :-p