On the menu: chives, two types of basil (sweet and cinnamon) and chicory. Now there's a salad mix screaming for tomatoes: cherry, plum and orange are delish. A border of marigolds keeps the slugs away (a top tip from mum).
My tomatoes are sun-bathing and each one stands in a special green pot. It is these doughnut pots, the label assures me, that will help my fruits grow big, strong and tasty enough for a home-made salsa...
1 week later...
Tomatoes are blooming! Think the drizzly weather is helping...but must keep a lookout for peckish slugs. When it's dry, I water the inner-doughnut every other day, sometimes with a tad of tommy fertiliser too.Aside from a teeny tiny snail on my chicory (now relocated), all is peachy in the herb garden. Used chives for the first time - mixed with cream cheese and pepper to stuff a
breadcrumb-topped mushroom, yumski.
BIG news: if you squint and focus real hard on the centre of the photo, you may just spot a little yellow flower...the timid beginnings of a blossoming cherry tomato plant.
Far left-hand plant is lagging behind: I reckon it's lack of sunshine, so have shifted soil bag to the the right, away from the shade of our washing line.
2 weeks later...
Teeney yellow flower count is up to two, hurrah! I think after two weeks, I have to start watering the outer-ring of my doughnut...I wonder if that will make a difference?
Alas the slugs and snails have a taste for my cinnamon basil and so, regrettably, I put some of those fluorescent blue pellets down at the weekend - the Marigolds, it seems, just aren't enough to keep slimy pests at bay. Total frazzled so far: six snails and two slugs...R.I.P fellas.
4 weeks later...
