Still hot and dry - tomatoes doing well.

[agoodwinsmith]

It is still hot, although not as hot as previously.  This may be due to acclimatization.  There has been no rain.  This is at least three weeks without rain, and things are beyond wilting to wilted.  Flat on the ground and crispy.  Which means our tomatoes on the deck are going completely nuts.
 

First we have both tomato plants.  The smaller one which will have the bigger tomatoes on the left and the bigger one which will have the smaller tomatoes on the right:



Next we have a close up of the small plant big tomatoes tomatoes:

Then we have the beautiful nasturtiums:

And a close-up of a dark red nasturtium blossom



These are Whirlybird Mix, from the Pacific Northwest Seeds, out of Vernon BC.

Hey, it says here that these guys should be fragrant.  It is not a noticeable fragrance.

EDIT - I give up.  The Livejournal cut function can rot in hell; I am not fiddling with it any more.

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[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

's why I use the HTML editing screen and put in the code myself (I have a cheat sheet prepared)

HTML cheat sheet

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

Errr, would you be inclined to share your sheet?

If so, I'm ATverizonDOTnet.

::: insert pleading look into icon :::

Naturtiums!

[ankhorite.livejournal.com]

EDIT - I give up. The Livejournal cut function can rot in hell; I am not fiddling with it any more.

LOL!!! Yes, dear. Meanwhile, your photos inspire me to get the heck off the computer and out in the yard.

I am pretty sure I murdered a beautiful brunnera by not getting it into the (well-shaded) ground quickly enough. :(

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Your tomatoes are doing much better than mine - mine just sulked and wouldn't germinate this year. [has tomato envy]

Hey, it says here that these guys should be fragrant. It is not a noticeable fragrance.

I've grown nasturtiums for two or three years now and never noticed any scent from them, although admittedly, my sense of smell is far from being the best in the world. Bees love 'em to pieces though.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

We cheated. We bought potted seedling that were each 10 inches high, and then we kept them indoors at night until the temperature was consistently above 10C at night. We sat them in a sunny window that gets direct sunlight for at least 6 to 10 hours a day (depending on the length of the days). They were three feet tall before they started spending the night outdoors on their own. :)

Sadly, we do not appear to have any pollinating bugs, and so we have resorted to a child's paintbrush for assisted reproduction technology. We haven't done the nasturtiums, so they may not develop seeds.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

That's not cheating, given the amount of snow you had earlier this year, it's just practical :-)

Sadly, we do not appear to have any pollinating bugs

:-(

You might find that the nasturtiums draw some in eventually if there are any to be had - the ones on my allotment are usually a-buzz with bumble bees which appear to love them greatly.