We must have a lot of time on our hands at the moment as we’re giving the tomato plants a weekly dose of comfrey liquid and as the plants aren’t of the bushy variety we’ve been religiously sideshooting (aka pinching out) each plant (we’ve just noticed in this photo we missed one near at the top, damn!) We need to get out more, we really do!
All sideshooting is, is where the plant is trying to grow another stem, you nip it out so all the goodness goes into making the fruit. For God’s sake when you do it make sure you’re not nipping out the flower trusses. We’ve just looked online and it said it’s better using your fingers than a pair of secateurs as the plants form scar tissue better making less chance of any diseases forming. We can’t believe that fruit are actually forming now, God is it June already?
Talking of tomatoes here’s a brilliant Bob Flowerdew talk on tomatoes that contradicts what we’ve just said (he says don’t grow them on single cordons try two or three). We’ve put this video up a few times but it’s well worth watching.
We still would like to know what Bob Flowerdew’s top 10 all-time tunes are though. We reckon it may include some interesting stuff and possibly a bit of “More Yes, Genesis and Floyd”, not ‘alf pop pickers.
One thing’s for sure is that the whole idea of seed/plant swapping, finding stuff in the street and the idea of giving not to receive (but then someone gives you something out of the blue) is well up our street. It cheers up the garden for less pence and there’s a possibly that you’ll be growing stuff you’d never even think of growing. This morning we noticed some fruit on one of the chili peppers we were given the other week. We reckon the weekly dose of liquid plant feed helps and we were just thinking even the comfrey plant we made the feed out of was given to us by a mate earlier this year.
And we finally tidied up the front garden after much putting off and excuses (“We haven’t enough bin bags”, “It looks like rain later” and “We’ll do it next week”. We reckon it may have been a good year and a bit since it had a good tidy up and it was so bad we got a few business cards put through the front door from gardeners, the shame of it.
Below is the studio version of Sunday night’s Skybird Supper Club Imaginary Lounge Episode 2 live from Paris, Maine programme on WRMI for your chilled out, silk dressing gown wearing, listening pleasure.
A couple of weeks after we featured them in a post 
Weeds up to me knees 