Tag: tomatoes

potting tomatoes and peppers

Potted tomato and pepper seeds, splitting pots between the greenhouse and the back porch to see whether can detect difference in germination time/seedling health… Labeled each pot carefully then watered, washing off all the ink. So had to reconstruct from memory and have doubtless got it wrong. Dick.
Anyway, varieties are:

  • Roma tomato (1 porch, 1 gh)
  • San Marzano tomato (1 porch, 1 gh)
  • Smadar tomato (1 porch, 1 gh)
  • Sweet Mixed Pepper (1 porch, 1 gh)
  • Mavras Pepper (1 porch)
  • Demon Red Pepper (1 gh)

Need to sow more of all remaining in a couple of weeks.

planting out

Poppies, beans

Planted tomatoes in greenhouse borders: 5 San Marzano on the right (Ali’s side), 4 F1 Incas down the left. Should bung a bit of my compost around them; nice foody mulch.

This morning, planted 6 of the Incas in the allotment. The beans, courgettes and cucumber are looking healthier, greener. I put a general food in their water; also sprinkled some blood, fish and bone on them yesterday. Beans are starting to throw out climbers, though they have yet to find the canes.

What is that weed that I am pulling out every day only to find it reappearing by the next morning? Oh, it appears to be Field Bindweed. So I’ve got Hedge Bindweed down with the potatoes, and Field Bindweed up the top with the squashes. Super.