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All here – blight free and now enjoying the sunshine. Hurrah!!
And showing lots of flowers and some fruit. Now the sun is here and the plants are in good health, I feel like there will be new tomato steps to see on a daily basis.
So for today’s best in class we have flowers and fruit – in fact clusters of fruit on Tumbler. A fruit on Black Cherry and flowers galore and the hairiest stems ever on Tomatoberry. A plant which provides its own fuzzy halo. Looking at the number of flowers on Tomatoberry, if they all fruit, I can see myself picking a lot of tomatoes – and typing the word prolific – a lot.
Fruit on Tumbler
Fruit on Black Cherry
Flower Clusters on Tomatoberry
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What’s your technique for pollination? Mine just get a vigorous shake twice a day.
I’m glad there’s no blight there yet – and yay for fruit and flowers. Hopefully you’ll have a decent crop this year.
Here’s a couple of pictures of my own Team Tomato. In the first, from left to right, Lettuce Leaf, Black Cherry and Gold Medal – with pumpkin plants in front and raspberries behind. In the second, larger tent, we have Gold Medal, Gardener’s Delight and Sunstream – plus courgette plants and weeds for extra pictorial value.
Hopefully your fruits will soon be dashing across the finish line!
The smaller tent is somehow reminiscent of those – probably only now seen on postcards – gentlemen at the seaside – sat in a deckchair – rolled up trousers and knotted hankie on their heads.
However they all look very happy on their hols! Thank you for posting – it’s good to see what other people’s patches and plants look like.
What a year for tomatoes!!!…yours do look healthy though. Even my beetroot perished…going to have to diversify next years and limit myself to three varieties of tomato and some hardier veg/fruit species.
I would have thought that beetroot was one of those crops that defies all weathers – says a lot about conditions this year, that even that’s decided to give up!
What I do love is that we are all so… next year.. Bowed but not defeated I think is the phrase!!