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Good foliage growth. Intact despite rain, wind, cold and light levels that hover around levels akin to 40 watt bulbs and dusty shades.
It’s been July for two whole days now. If one of the many gusts of wind had accidently riffled through the calendar pages and flipped them forward to October – I would look outside and see no reason to turn them back 3 months!
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I’m glad your plants are progressing well in the Tomato Olympics. . Here too, the rallying of the team continues; the Black Cherry are still outpacing the other plants, but at least one of each is showing -*gasp* – splashes of yellow. There’s still a few sad stragglers that have yet to leave the starting blocks. Sideshoot and lower leaf removal is now the order of the day.
I had to repair a panel of one of the tents the other day. Good thing too – I predict an early blight season, having received two Smith period alerts in the past week – but no incidents reported yet.
Hmm, just about to return from a sun drenched holiday in Tuscany – surely a tomato lovers paradise! Everywhere I went there were beautifully tended vegetable gardens, including rows and rows of cordon tomatoes, basking in the sun and outgrowing anything in my garden. Dreading the return to my little rain drenched patch now…when I left a month ago they were all showing flowers (despite the earlier setbacks with frost damage) so I had been hoping for at least a few fruits as tiny buds, but we’ll see…
Will be fascinated to read how things progress in your garden – hopefully no blight this year…
Those Smith period alerts seem to be coming thick and fast! I’ve had two to date as well.
Sometimes it feels like it must surely be too cold to reach the required temperature for one! I am very glad you have splashes of yellow. My best yellow show is from Tumbler and a touch here and there on Sungold and Harbinger.
I’m not removing leaves or sideshoots at the moment as I don’t want to run the risk of blight spores getting in the wound – but like you – only alerts no actual incidences yet.
Good move to repair the panel – it’s all good practice for the Ark building that’s sure to be needed before too long!
I don’t know if technically it’s possible to press a nose up against the window of someone’s holiday – but that’s just what I’ve done thinking about yours.
With each little phrase – sun drenched – Tuscany – tomato lover’s paradise – rows and rows of cordon tomatoes… I squished my nose to the pane a little bit harder! That sounds lovely. Returning to the UK must be like old fashioned TV viewing – when you had a nice colour picture and then it went all grey and fuzzy and looked like it was snowing!
If you had flowers a while ago, I am hoping that there are some tiny little green ‘tomato peas’ showing through. That would be a little silver lining!