And planted 2 tomato plants so far. Both heirloom, a black krim for flavour (from the island of Krim in the Black Sea) and a bloody butcher (high early yield of dark red fruit in clusters). I tried a black krim last year and it did not do well, I'm a devil for punishment. I've planted them over the spot I buried old fishing bait from the freezer, hopefully they will make more use of it than the fish ever did.
I followed some advice from a local gardening guru and soaked the plants in a solution of aspirin (apparently it helps prevent disease by 46%) and then planted deep well up to their second set of leaves. Tomatoes happily grow roots from the stem, the deeper the roots the better.
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| The black krim and the bloody butcher arrrrr :) |
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| Two tomatoes ready under their frame |
This year I am going to grow the tomatoes up strings from a simple support. Hopefully it works out well
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| Meyer lemons beeing made |
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| The fortune plums fattening up |
Still harvesting a bag of tender stem broccoli every few days, the plants are now starting to throw up whole new side plants with even more bits. I would normally have ripped the plants out weeks ago but they keep on giving despite their general look
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| New broccoli head |
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| Another bag of tenderstems |
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