A closer look at the garden in July and August.
First year Hollyhock plants grown from seeds, on a fresh summer morning. These plants only flower starting in their second year.
Pink and White Dwarf Godetia:
A wild star-shaped flower:
Floor covering Five Spot Nemophila:
Plants in our staircase garden:
Delicate, silky Ipomoea flowers growing through our Star Jasmine terrace railing:
Double African Marigold:
Hi everyone,
I hope your garden is doing well!
My tomato plants have grown so much, I thought you might want an update.
I find growing plants from seeds, the most satisfying way of gardening; having seen the plants develop out of tiny seeds, with a bit of soil and little water, makes one feel much more responsible for them then for plants bought already fully grown.
Last winter I won a package of tomato seeds in an online competition run by Woolly Green. The package arrived in the post just before Christmas and, as I had never grown tomatoes before, I followed their development every step along the way. Here is how the seeds turned into tomatoes:
28th of April 2013:
Grown from a package, the tomato seedlings indoors:
12th of May 2013:
Seedlings moved onto the window ledge
31st of May 2013:
6th of June 2013:
Seedlings re-potted into tomato cage pots
As their new position was less protected than the window ledge, a transparent plastic sheet at the back helps to keep draughts away:
And wow, look how much they’ve grown since then:
23rd of June 2013:
29th of June 2013:
10th of July 2013:
10th of July 2013, the first flowers started to appear:
14th of July 2013:
16th of July 2013, I bought some organic seaweed tomato fertilizer:
As I’m hoping to eat the tomatoes, I didn’t want any chemical fertilizer. I asked around, and the best one to me seemed this Maxicrop organic fertilizer, made from plant extracts and seaweed. I mix half a cup of Maxicrop with two liters of water every seven days.
20 July 2013:
21st of July 2013:
21st of July 2013, the first tomato fruit:
11th of August 2013:
31st of August 2013:
2nd of September 2013:
If you haven’t grown tomatoes before, I hope the pictures encourage you to try it yourself.
It would be nice hearing about your success stories!
Thanks for watching
And p.s. compared to July 2013:
this is what remains of the tomato plants, now in October 2013:
Time to clear up the garden…
Red Darter 