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| Brandywine tomato turning red. This weighed about 300 grams! It is impossible to use all of this tomato in one go. Can be used in 2-3 dishes.
The top part of the tomato looked damaged so I chopped it off. The rest of the fruit was fine. I suspect this was due to variable amount of rain and temperature changes. I lost all my ground grown tomatoes to blight. So have the pros at Gardeners World. This tomato has a delicate flesh. It is sweeter than a normal tomato. Viewed: 816 times. | |||||||||
| Jalapeno pepper growing in a grocery bag on my bedroom window.
A different growing method here. I use white clover as living mulch instead of the kitchen scraps which is dead mulch. The main criticism of using kitchen scraps as mulch is it is unsightly, breeds (harmless I think) fruit flies which can induce paranoia about diseases they can spread to you etc.
White clover cover makes this look very serene while fixing atomospheric nitrogen in a form usable by plants ie it makes fertilizer! But there is a downside. You need to water more often as the plants transpire enmasse and this is a small bag. The kind of bag they use in bookshops to put small paperbacks. Viewed: 909 times. | |||||||||
| A young cucumber (variety: Marketmore) growing along the garden fence. This cucumber has small thorns on its skin so you must peel it before eating. Cucumber requires heat, sun and moisture. However this popular variety can flower and fruit even when the weather is cold. Instead of growing rare and difficult to raise varieties (requiring greenhouse etc) I grow popular and therefore easy to grow varieties which are well suited to local conditions. Viewed: 847 times. | |||||||||
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