I cringed when tomato lady put a big knife through a tom with her hand underneath, please don't try that at home. What was the name she/they gave to the group (not the specific type) of toms she was growing? It's something I forgot and need to follow up.
An heirloom tomato is an open-pollinated, non-hybrid heirloom cultivar of tomato. They are classified as: family heirlooms, commercial heirlooms, mystery heirlooms, or created heirlooms. They usually have a shorter shelf life and are less disease resistant than hybrids.
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Seeing the canal/railway garden, amazing. I wonder if that also grows on clay soil where all plants grow higher than the label says because of the good condition. I would like to know what this garden looks now after the heat and drought. Please Gardeners World, can you ask the lady for pictures and tell us in the coming episodes? It would be interesting to know what alternatives we have, because from what I have seen around us, many wildflower meadows look brown once their season is over.
Once their season is over and they have set seed you cut widlfower meadows back and rake everything up. This keeps soil fertilty levels low, which wildflowers prefer. They'll look brown if you leave them and brown if cut and raked up but with the latter, they'll green up as soon as it rains.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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A bit annoyed with myself this morning. For some reason my tomatoes this year decided to stay the size of walnuts, despite all the watering and the feeding, and my Morning Glory just collapsed into a heap. I, obviously, failed to please them in some way. I wish I knew exactly how.
I really don't like finicky plants.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day..
will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their
character
Hi Zoe, I'm sorry about your disappointment with your plants. It happens occasionally without a very obvious reason to us; and don't forget this has been a rather difficult summer.
I think you should try again next spring, without any fear that history might repeat itself.
I, generally, grow smallish tomatoes and my Morning Glory self-seeds. Both are doing all right.
I first brought some seed of MG from Greece, if I remember correctly, in May 2013. It grows fine, blooms well and then self seeds very successfully. It has been growing itself in the same pot since then. I do water and feed it though.
This year, another plant appeared in another pot, not sown or planted by me; perhaps a gift from the wind or the birds? It's been stunning all summer long; much better than the first!
" As summer marches on, Monty gets stuck into more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Adam Frost revels in the range of produce growing in a Victorian walled kitchen garden in Somerset, Joe Swift visits a garden in West Sussex that has been completely redesigned to make the most of views over the South Downs, and The Repair Shop’s resident horologist Steve Fletcher shares his passion for gardening.
There's also a gardener from Lancashire who loves growing clematis, and Gardeners’ World viewers share what they have been getting up to in their gardens."
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It would be interesting to know what alternatives we have, because from what I have seen around us, many wildflower meadows look brown once their season is over.
I ♥ my garden.
I really don't like finicky plants.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther King" As summer marches on, Monty gets stuck into more seasonal jobs at Longmeadow. Adam Frost revels in the range of produce growing in a Victorian walled kitchen garden in Somerset, Joe Swift visits a garden in West Sussex that has been completely redesigned to make the most of views over the South Downs, and The Repair Shop’s resident horologist Steve Fletcher shares his passion for gardening.
There's also a gardener from Lancashire who loves growing clematis, and Gardeners’ World viewers share what they have been getting up to in their gardens."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11125455/Monty-Don-turned-mafia-audiences-watching-Gardeners-World.html