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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Rosehip Aug 2021 6:01pm, 30 Aug 2021 22,231 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip (Your goose reminded me that it’s time to put my order in for C*****mas, thank you )
jacdaw Aug 2021 6:10pm, 30 Aug 2021 3,338 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw Ssshhhh! He's almost 20, by the way. He breathes a sigh of relief every Boxing Day.
Rosehip Aug 2021 6:13pm, 30 Aug 2021 22,233 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip He looks fun, good guard goose?
jacdaw Aug 2021 6:28pm, 30 Aug 2021 3,339 posts	Quote Pin jacdaw Certainly not to be messed with!
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Aug 2021 7:01pm, 30 Aug 2021 15,987 posts	Quote Pin MarkyMarkMark (3M) I have 2 only green tomatoes at the moment. That's on 12 plants, 4 different varieties and plenty of insects to fertilise them. I don't know what's gone wrong this year. 😢
Mandymoo Aug 2021 7:08pm, 30 Aug 2021 12,458 posts	Quote Pin Mandymoo Struggled with Tom's this year too
Columba Aug 2021 7:32pm, 30 Aug 2021 21,273 posts	Quote Pin Columba Not having a greenhouse I don't usually attempt tomatoes. My next-door neighbour gave me a mini tomato plant this year, assuring me the fruit would ripen out of doors. So far, it hasn't.
Dvorak Aug 2021 8:18pm, 30 Aug 2021 23,271 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Conversely, tomatoes doing well here. Bought a Sunblush plant from a proper garden centre for decent money, instead of trying and failing to grow my own*, and it has run riot. The fruit is small, but super sweet, can just eat them like grapes, might end up with about 150. Then I bought a couple of plants for 75p each from Asda, Gardener Delight and Roma, just setting fruit, but they may ripen. And there's a Bloody Butcher: that came from Morrisons and grew in the kitchen window. I bought it for my mother after a row over the Sunblush. It's now also in the greenhouse but has gone a bit directionally wonky. Just starting to flower, so hmm. And there are also three of unknown variety which just appeared in trays amongst other stuff. So I potted them on. One is flowering, flowers are a bit odd, so who knows. I had recycled some compost, so I guess it was seeds of fallen unripe (so ignored) fruit. Possibly Russian Black then. And there's an Alicante in the kitchen, also from Asda: nothing expected of it, but when the other one moved out, I missed having a plant there. Oh, and a mini-bush of unspecified variety from Lidl, which has been consistently providing tiny, tasty, but tough-skinned fruit for couple of months. I think that now concludes my tomato 🍅 round up
Dvorak Aug 2021 8:20pm, 30 Aug 2021 23,272 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak * they could work, but I'm lazy so they fall behind it every stage, which is no good in Scotland.
Hanneke Aug 2021 8:36pm, 30 Aug 2021 78,924 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke You bought a tomato.plant from every supermarket