I've done it. The bastard Ox Heart tomato plant is no more. What once looked like this.
Now looks like this...
To be honest I still don't think I have the dreaded blight. No other tomato plants on the patio have shown any signs of it, but I wasn't about to risk cross infection. Even so, it's mid-august and the problem plant still only had flowers on it, and no baby tomatoes. There was very little chance it was going to produce any ripe tomatoes before Christmas so I killed it and shoved it in the communal waste bin just case. Land fill. Best place for it. It's not going on my compost bin and anyway my flame-thrower has no fuel in it.
Thanks to everyone who threw advice at me. Sorry I ignored all of you! You all know who you are! For those who don't know who they are, here are their blogs or twitter ID, should you feel the need to know them better. You should cos I do. They're in no particular order.
[Blog links have been deleted due to spamming bastards]
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| Should be called Giraffe Heart. |
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| Notice the Ear-Buzz (Patent Pending) |
To be honest I still don't think I have the dreaded blight. No other tomato plants on the patio have shown any signs of it, but I wasn't about to risk cross infection. Even so, it's mid-august and the problem plant still only had flowers on it, and no baby tomatoes. There was very little chance it was going to produce any ripe tomatoes before Christmas so I killed it and shoved it in the communal waste bin just case. Land fill. Best place for it. It's not going on my compost bin and anyway my flame-thrower has no fuel in it.
In other news the terrible attack from caterpillars seems to be halted. In total I found 4 of the bastards yesterday and none today. I should probably get up the the allotment if I'm honest and see how they're all doing up there. (The brassicas I mean, not the caterpillars.)
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| These probably need planting out. Under a net. |
Thanks to everyone who threw advice at me. Sorry I ignored all of you! You all know who you are! For those who don't know who they are, here are their blogs or twitter ID, should you feel the need to know them better. You should cos I do. They're in no particular order.
[Blog links have been deleted due to spamming bastards]
If the links don't work, you all know how to cut and paste. Blogger hates the cut & paste. It also hates keeping a consistant font size. Bet it loves AIDS though. :-(
You are a braver man than me. If I was a man, that is. But you are anyway. Braver, I mean. Not that you're not a man. Er, anyhoo I am just keeping up my daily foliage editing. I have an eye on a couple of possible culls but my greed will probably get the better of me and they'll all succumb to 'virus' or whatever they've got...
ReplyDeleteI had a friend who desperately wanted a German Shepherd. He hunted around for a puppy, but all the kennels wanted silly money for one. Eventually he met a bloke who had a puppy for sale at a reasonable cost. The explanation behind the low price was that it didn't have any papers, because the bloke had forgotten to register it and since then he'd lost touch with the breeder.
ReplyDeleteMy friend went to see it, and it looked just like a German Shepherd, so he bought it. As it grew, it continued to look like a German Shepherd ... all except for its legs. They remained short and stumpy, like a sausage dog. A German Sausage dog. A Wurst Hund, as they say in the Fatherland.
Eventually he realised that he'd bought a ringer. He didn't admit as much to most people. Instad he told them that the dog was standing in a hole.
The moral of the story is this: if blight is going to get you, it's going to get you!