Well, that's how I think the Tomato plant grew on the beach It's been there all summer where the beach meets the road. It probably didn't get watered apart from when it rained. It would have had to put up with salt spray every time there was wind or a storm, but it's done well and produced some lovely tomatoes It had been touched by the frost when we visited a few days ago so I took these for seed. I don't have a pic of the plant but this gives you an idea of where it was growing...
Are you going to have a go planting the seeds in your garden this coming spring ? I'd like to see that !! . I want a play by play account of it.
Yep, that's the plan Annie They grew so well and set full trusses of plums that I just had to give it a go
If the plants do well can I get some seed for 2027? I have very sandy soil and if that plant can grow on the beavch, it'll love it in my yard !!
I'll do better than that, I'll do a germination test tomorrow and if they're viable I'll lob some out to you
Thanks Ziggy !! Very generous of you !! I hope you have enough seed in those two to do so. If not, I will gladly wait until next year.
No worries Annie, have to go to plan b as there were only a few seeds in the both of them. If I can get any of them to grow I'll lob you some as soon as we've got more. We can name it as a variety, maybe Oldstairs Bay Beach Plums or something
That's what I thought. Considering they were growing in harsh conditions, it was probably all the poor thing could do to keep roots and stems together, nevermind make a slew of seeds too !! Next year's seeds would be terrific !! . Thanks Zigs !!
Probably the case Annie, quite impressed it's hung on all summer I've lobbed the whole lot in a pot, see if any come up
I see there may b some confucion here but I am going to suggest at least one thing one might do with such green tomaters. We fry them! Kinda sad, last of the celebrity for this year. Some that did not turn when plucked because of the first frost.
So do you have the asian jumping worm? We are now 8b from 7b and surely you are living on a tropical isle by now? They called them Alabama Jumpers and sold them as bait worms for fishing here forever and now its a problem. And they sold white crickets. I remember in school the boys putting several hundred of those white bait crickets in a particular hottie's car. Tetters never let you do anything so brass-so if it was, it was early. How did it go? Satisfaction sending messages with bugs? They have made movies about such themes. With the interplanetary matter between your eardrums I suspect mischief occured.
No worms in our jumpers yet Mr Mechanic Tetters only lets me pick tomatoes from the beach, won't let me go fishing. We just keep an eye on what's coming across the channel now “This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
