It's actually quieter than a normal Monday here.......very odd!
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12boy
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Here's today's tomatoes to be picked. Also have carrots and a bunch of zucchini and yellow summer squash. I need a bunch of manure to till in this fall when the gardens done for next spring. I've found shallots do very well next to tomatoes and they do much better here than onions for some reason.
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Shame you binned the plants. Many a good tomato was grown at sewage plants.
. That will be rejected.
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I got back about half one having ridden 56 miles, Earlswood and back, it was more like a winter ride than an end of summer ride, I was wearing a winter jacket and gloves on the way out and only put my gloves in my back pocket when I came out the cafe to ride home, and I had cold arms for most of the ride. It was a deceptive ride, it appeared to be calm but it was a slow hard ride so I recon there was a bit of a breeze about, it was also grey and cloudy for most of the ride. I did the shorter route out and the longer route back, I rode out through Balsall Common, past Badesley Clinton, Packwood House and Henley In Arden. I rode back through Henley In Arden, past Danzey Green, up Pig Trot lane, through Lowsenford, Hatton and on to Balsall Common and home. It turned out to be a good morning on the bike, but a bit more warmth and a bit more pace would have been nice.
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classic33
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What colour are they though?Mine are in a tin
Without opening the tin!
Here's my tomatoes
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PaulSB
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- Chorley, Lancashire
Have to tell you this looks like a watering issue. Tomatoes respond well to a regular amount of water. Mine get two litres per day, four in hot weather.
If the watering is erratic, flood followed by drought, varying amounts every day, overwatering will all give a variety of leaf symptoms.
Shouldn't stop them ripening though.
oldwheels
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Some of the ones I used to grow did not turn red till well into October.
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In the days before mains water and sewage systems a lot of people had a toilet down the bottom of the garden consisting of a bucket and a plank of wood with a hole in it, it was common practice for the contents of the bucket to be dug into the veg patch.
Funny things tinned tomatoes. They behave the opposite to vine ones. When you open the can they are red but if you you leave them in the can... in the kitchen for a few weeks.... they turn green
oldwheels
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Sewage was used in the grand estates as tomato fertiliser. Certainly this happened into the 1900's. My father was a gardener and served as apprentice and journeyman on these estates in the Scottish/English border and passed this information on to me.
PaulSB
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Yep, that would be unusual. Most years we are still picking toms in late November.
oldwheels
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Just been reminded { thank you mo } about the Tour of France so turned the telly on. I am not particularly interested in the racing but mainly watch the background scenery. Never been in the area where they are currently racing but last years's tour covered some areas we cycled in many years ago and nothing much seems to have changed. Very nostalgic.
classic33
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I said without opening the tin.Funny things tinned tomatoes. They behave the opposite to vine ones. When you open the can they are red but if you you leave them in the can... in the kitchen for a few weeks.... they turn green
