More Tomatoes

Both tomato plants are now in fruit. The first plant to fruit has stopped flowering but is still growing fruit, the second is still flowering. Water consumption has decreased substantially, they used to take 3 litre between them each day and they now seem to be taking about half that. This is the third week of harvest and there are tons of fruit (see photo). The previous two weeks summed to about this many also. There remains many more weeks of fruit on the vines.

Rhubarb?

After planting many rhubarb seeds, one sprouted after about 10 days and another after about twice that. Here's a photo of one. Its growing very slowly and it isn't obvious (yet) that it is rhubarb. Once it grows a bit it might be a lot more obvious what, exectly this plant is (rhubarb or not).

The outside rhubarb is doing very well. It seems to have branched several times with what look to be about 4 centeres. Over winter it will be necessary to seperate these out and re-plant them for next year.

Tomatoes for Dinner

The books all say that vine ripened tomatoes taste far better than artificially ripened tomatoes from the shop. These ones taste good. Normally we don't eat many, these were grown for our daughter - shame she turned out to have an tomato allergy!