AmateurInAwe's Garden

[Shule]

@Shule I know the blackbirds stole some of the labels but I am certain it's not a grapefruit.....it didn't come with a glace cherry so it definitely wasn't.

I was saying that because the word resembles the French word for grapefruit, and grapefruit are about 12oz.

[Amateurinawe]

Pamplemousse = grapefruit

I didn't even think @Shule !

[Amateurinawe]

It is currently green and looks nothing like a grapefruit, but I am hoping it will soon. Grandfather's grapefruit.

[Amateurinawe]

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So, I just made a herb, garlic and cheesy bread. One slice toasted with lashings of butter, and added sliced Dolly. Delicious.

There are four more ripening on the vine in the greenhouse.

[MissS]

Oh no you ate those seeds!

I'm glad to know that she was good.

[Amateurinawe]

An 11 oz Dolly. She has produced lovely tomatoes, but not many, but then she was fashionably late to the party..

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[Amateurinawe]

Sadness as this is the last haul of tomatoes, and the greenhouse needs to be tidied (won't take long cos it's tiny)

The front beds need clearing soon but still have carrots, leaks, chillies and celeriac growing - feel some kind of soup coming on soon.

One or two odd yellow cherries with antho on my f2 growout, not sure what happened there..... (got-it, think it might have crossed with the plant next to it, Dr Carolyn white) That would make it an F1 again

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[worth1]

I have another wild tomato plant coming up.
Plus the store bought green onions i planted 2 years ago are coming on strong.
A perpetual source of green onion tops.
I don't even take care of them.
Just a weed pulled ever now and then.

[Amateurinawe]

Orange minsk, one more uniform than the other but in general most were pretty much like the one on the right.

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[Amateurinawe]

A selection from the F2 growout...(I managed to get two grow outs this year with using the greenhouse)

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[Amateurinawe]

From the top, four more orange minsk...then left my only Kellogg breakfast and then the last of the dolly parton...

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[Amateurinawe]

So no pics yet, but an interesting selection for me this year and the run down is: (and the biggest thanks to @Nico )

Rosa de barbastro x2
Rosao de averbe x2
Verde de las landas
Black Russian x2
Ramalet 100 de colgar x2
Heidi
Seek no further (love apple)
Timpurii x2
Fred Limbaugh x2
Garotte bicolor x2
Caspian pink
Copper river x2
Smfl x2
Red indigo f3 x2
Yellow indigo f3 x2
Old brooks
Oxycan jewel
Fish lake x2
Ramalet bombeta x2
Zenas gift
Tasmanian chocolate x2 (the one with their stripes)
Delicious
True colours
Early orange stripe
Tomato b (don't ask)
Cherokee purple x2
Dolly parton x2
San marzanno x2
Tiny Tim x2
Venus x2

Fingers crossed for a good year and gonna do some crosses this year

[GoDawgs]

Good to see you! I see that Dolly Parton made your list again.

[bower]

Yeah that Dolly was very pretty!
I am also glad to see you, Emsworth, I was beginning to worry about you. All hale, back to the garden!

[worth1]

Yeah that Dolly was very pretty!
I am also glad to see you, Emsworth, I was beginning to worry about you. All hale, back to the garden!

Meeeee tooooo.

[rossomendblot]

Welcome back!

[MissS]

Yes, we missed you. Welcome Home!

[Amateurinawe]

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One or two I did photograph

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[Amateurinawe]

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SMFL is beginning to really bloom, curious to see how this turns out.

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Black Russian coming on nicely

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Free Limbaugh were so delicious last year, not the prettiest fruit but hopefully it was the bad weather and this year is kinder

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Red Indigo F3 likely to be a good producer again. Love the antho showing on the stem.

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This is hopefully going to be my first green Spanish tomato, this ain't Spanish weather, hope she is not too homesick

[Amateurinawe]

So the roots discussion made me start thinking whether I needed to adjust the height of my beds and would it be worth it. I can't do lateral root encouragement without cutting down on the number in a bed, and sadly I can't do more beds - I think my neighbour might have something to say about that.

But is a deeper bed worth the expense.

I have two neighbouring plants, two black russian and two fred linbaugh. Similar size, same seed source, both so close the soil composition is identical.

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Black Russian

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Free Limbaugh

So they are established so I shall encourage further root growth on the stem.

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Cut my bucket (I showed this one to liza)

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Place around the stem and secure bucket to ground

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And fill.

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I am sure the potted one will do better, with the hilling up of more soil. But will it make much of a difference to warrant raising the depth of my beds next year.

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