We cleared out a lot of stuff from a couple of raised beds yesterday which revealed some spindly tomato plants that haven’t been staked properly let alone side-shooted or nipped out after 5 trusses. It just looks like we just let them go mad, sadly we did. We have a level of shame here as usually we love taking off side-shoots and tying up the plants to a garden cane at regular 2-inch intervals with green garden wire.
The (above) are the Black Moon variety that the Thompson & Morgan Blog team kindly sent us alongside some other seeds. It’s been an odd year here this year so lost track of things and we’re not sure what else we have of the other seeds (we lost the plant labels and did have a couple of seed disasters we remember) but we’re sure by autumn other stuff will surface. We’ll keep you informed about how things turn out especially with the black moon.
Here’s another bed (above) that has been thinned out showing the San Marzano tomato plants we grew from seed (well worth growing if you want to make sauce from them). We wonder if the chilli plant at the front is the Thompson & Morgan Quick Fire? It would be great if it is, as it mentioned on the pack that you can get up to 100 chillies per plant!
Some “hot” themed tunes. The second youtube goes out to our mate down south who loves buses like we do, Gerry Hectic. No idea why the bus video to go with the Big Youth tune but we don’t care as it is great. “No standing on the top deck please”, “Tickets please” and “Hold tight” of course. Keep cool today and keep in the shade.
A few months ago we picked up some plants (cheap) from a community garden stall outside Crystal Palace park (
This afternoon wandering around the garden we saw some bees going to town on a 
If we have to thin plants out of the pond we sometimes put them in micro ponds we’ve dug into the ground in the wild bit at the bottom of the garden. This time here’s some water mint in an old M&S plant container. Waste not want not.
Things are looking great in the garden, the late sown Courgette/Zucchini plants are flowering and here’s one of them with a little fruit showing on the left hand side (above). In the picture is also some sort of wild geranium/pelargonium that came out of a wild flower seed mix we flung around the area beside it.
There are a couple of fruits starting to ripen on the very early sown tomato (above) we put in a broken food recycling bin that is up near the house. And (below) an ebay purchase (of £11) of fish food for the goldfish in the pond (50p for size comparison). Reckon this’ll last until the end of the decade! Does fish food have a “use by” date? Another silly question put to you by Weeds up to me knees.
Weeds up to me knees 