When I planted these seeds I didn't know what they were, I had thrown the original packaging away last year and was left with a small unlabeled foil packet of unknown origin, they turned out to be tomatoes.
Now these are meant to be one of the easiest things to grow, even for me. My first attempt ended up with Stalky here (pictured on the left) not a good start. I started again.
I have learnt to remove any growth that forms in the 'v' of two stems (shown left) it promotes growth elsewhere apparently.
OK, it's only half an inch across but it's on the tomato plant so it must be a tomato right.
It's ironic that the plants I looked after more carefully (yes, the ones that fell over and broke), struggled to produce flowers whilst all the time around the corner in with the runner beans this little beauty appears.
I have been checking every day hoping to catch the very first inkling of fruit and I've been caught out, typical isn't it.
As soon as I turn my back, up they pop, there's about four toms now and potential for a lot more.
From the proud moment of finding the
first sign of a tomato we're now looking at them popping up all over the
place.
About 8 are 'in production'.
To be honest, not a lot happened, they just grew on slowly.
Just one has started to show any signs of colour.
Needed to know what was going on inside, so I had a look!
We have tomatoes, well, two but it's a start. Here we are just edging in to winter weather (autumn might be skipped over to save time) and my toms are ripening . . . . . at last.
