#minibel

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

[ID: A small tomato plant with a handful of yellow flowers has 3 tiny tomatoes starting to grow]

Our indoor garden experiment is starting to bear fruit: the minibel tomatoes have started to produce.

[kerrysgardenadventure]

Early morning harvest! Finally getting some beautiful pink Brandywine tomatoes! Yum 😋🍅😋 . . . #pink #Brandywine #minibel #purplebumblebeetomato #tomato #tomatoes🍅 #tomatoes #natsufushinari #cucumbers #cucumber #harvest #veg #veggies #vegtables #backyardgarden #vegetablegarden #veggiepatch #growyourownfood #growyourown #longislandgarden (at Suffolk County, New York)

[twinleeks-blog]

Sunday June 24th 2012

Plot Time: 12.00 to 16.30 

Weather: Warm and cloudy in the morning breaking into blue skies and the odd light shower later in the evening

Jobs completed:

Planted out the butternut squash and last of the courgettes

Planted an area of lazio spinach seed

Weeded the garlic bed

Weeded the raspberries

Dug compost into the beds where the leeks are going to go

Chopped and agitated the compost heap. Added the old rocket that had gone to flower, the end of one of our troughs of lettuce and the remains of the spring cabbage

Bought more tomato growbags from the allotment shop. This year we have decided to try planting our tomatoes in the same way a fellow plot holder has advised us to. He uses tomato growbags but instead of laying them flat he folds them in half and cuts them in two and then uses each half as a ‘pot’ to plant each tomato plant in. You only get two plants per bag this way but each pot has much more intrinsic support. He also tought us to gaffer tape around the outside of each bag to prevent it from splitting when well watered. We have done this today and now have about ten plants sitting happily inside the greenhouse. They are a mixture of Big Red and Teton De Venus and Black Russian. We have also planted about eight Minibel dwarf pot tomato plants. We have potted ours in to punctured florist buckets and they are adding support to our other tomatoes in the greenhouse. We have a Tumbler too which we have potted up. It’s fully in flower and is showing our only tomato at present. The Red Alert plants we planted outside a few weeks back are flowering on their first trusses now but look slightly bashed from the recent weather and stunted by the cold. I am sure they will perk up with a bit of prolonged sunshine.

We still have some vegetables to plant out from the greenhouse. We have some calabrese and some purple sprouting broccoli which we plan to put in when our first early potatoes come out. We have some Aster plants which are looking very healthy. We are looking forward to seeing their heavy purple blooms in late summer.  We have leeks which are getting towards a pencil thickness in size which means they can be put out at any time. We have prepared the beds for these this weekend. We have some Mina Lobata seedlings which are now getting towards a foot and a half tall which will go out and be planted amongst our sweetpeas as soon as the threat of the cold wet weather subsides. 

Everything else in the greenhouse will stay in there - we have some chillis, lots of basil, lots of tomatoes, some cucumbers and some celery in pots which are looking great and doing much better than their al fresco counterparts.