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This is a case of the wrong Pantone. I was hoping, whilst colours of the rainbow is a spectrum too far for tomatoes, that at least the garden would now be accented with reds, oranges, yellows and stains of purples (courtesy of Black Cherry and Cherokees).
Instead the fruit is still mostly green – and the ripe ones are either splitting on the vine or bursting a seam the moment they’re picked.
And water bloated fruit, isn’t the only possible rain ramification. For the first time this year, on Wednesday, my postcode registered a Smith period (temperature of plus 10C and humidity of over 90% for a period of greater than 11 hours). Two of those together and the blight bugel sounds ! Yesterday was blissfully, dry, but now the rain – well it’s here and I’m guessing by the time it’s done, it will have clocked in for another full Smith shift. And the immediate outlook looks like more of the same. I’m hoping it dries out enough tomorrow morning to allow for a Bordeaux Mix application.
So todays’ pictures of hope as opposed to pickers of promise…..
I especially like the unusual shape of Lemon Tree – although of course the moment I typed that I realised that its shape is actually that of a lemon ! Oh dear – it’s all these water worries !
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Yes, it’s blight season again, as expected. A corespondent on Livejournal who lives near Manchester, reported her potato crop was affected, so it’s probably heading in our direction. I’m glad we’ve had some rain, but I expect my potato plants, all in the open, will be zapped by blight any time soon. Time to get the spade out, I think. I hope your fences give a degree of protection from the rain.
Sorry to read of your splitting woes, at least your split fruits are still edible, although not as decorative as the rest. They’ll ripen off the vine when the green lightens, you can store them near ripe fruit to quicken ripening.
I got my first ‘doom’ text today. Courtesy of the potato blight service. To tell me that a full Smith period has now been experienced in my area. So spores are no doubt astirring somewhere ! I feel ‘close leaf scrutiny’ coming on.
Still puts splitting in perspective !!