Saturday, 18 August 2007

That's neat, that's neat.. I really love those tiger.... tomatoes

A quick run up to the allotment to dig out the swiss chard which had gone completely rampant. The tops filled a rather large bag and went to the bunny sanctuary for them to nibble on, while the roots have gone on the compost heap. While digging the roots out I found a load of what looked like small plastic beads. A quick search on the web shows thes are slug eggs, which are now in a bed with no plants in it for them to eat. Hah !

The tomato plants are still doing well, but the tomatoes are staying green. With a bit of luck we'll get enough sun to ripen them up, but if not, green tomatoes chutney here we come. The picture below shows the tigerella ones which if you look closely have stripes on them and little bowls of Frosties at the roots. They're Grrreeeaaatttt !!!



The wood chips I put down on the rest of the plot have some weeds coming through, but 10 mins sorted those out which is a lot less than it used to be.

Too windy for custard creams today so I made a tactical retreat for a bacon butty :-)

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