Look! I grew a thing!

[mrsfran]

so missfran i take it you will be chowing down on mucho insalata caprese this summer?

I'll probably demand that they be eaten in silence and then praised reverentially with due deference to my growing skills.

Or at least, I will once my plant grows more than 6 tomatoes. The photographed plant is a cherry tomato one, I also have a proper tomato plant that has yet to ripen, so I should get a few off that too.

I expect a big fat fuss to be made of all tomato-related meals this year.

 

[berniedicters]

I learned last year that if it bolts (starts getting really tall and growing flowers), that's a bad thing and you have to pinch the flowers off. This is the kind of useful advice people don't normally tell you because they assume you'd know. But I didn't know that. Which is why I'm passing it on now. In case you didn't know.

With salad greens (and basil counts), the general implication of bolting is inadequate watering. Except for onions - there it usually means that the baby plants got too cold and entered the tertiary stage of development too soon.

 

[Santino]

I have been told to come on this thread and say how proud I am of missfran.

 

[Herbsman.]

I was actually scared of my lettuce when it bolted a couple of years back. Seriously, I was afraid to go near it.

It took a lot of bravery to snap the bolting bit off. For some reason, just thinking about it makes me feel sick.

Is there a name for the phobia of bolting lettuce?

 

[berniedicters]

I have been told to come on this thread and say how proud I am of missfran.

Feh, show some commitment, dammit!

 

[berniedicters]

I was actually scared of my lettuce when it bolted a couple of years back. Seriously, I was afraid to go near it.

It took a lot of bravery to snap the bolting bit off. For some reason, just thinking about it makes me feel sick.

Is there a name for the phobia of bolting lettuce?

Not exactly...

But seriously...sometimes I look at the growing tips of my plants, or the way a few spuds results in this fucking eruption of plants, and I add a little "triffid", and I can see easily how the fecundity of nature can actually feel quite sinister...

Because, frankly, if I drop dead tomorrow, those fucking potatoes are going to be sprouting for years after I'm just compost. And you can reckon that there'll be rather more than my bodymass in spuds before one or two of those years has passed...

 

[Herbsman.]

If all humans died today, plants and trees would actually break all the concrete and buildings and stuff in not much time at all

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

That's a very impressive thing Missfran

Are you going to grow more things?

How about trying some other things that look like tomatoes?

 

[fogbat]

The thread title promised so much more, missfran

Good stuff, though! Might post some photos of my chillies tomorrow

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

You're not going to upstage Missfran's thing are you fogbat?

 

[fogbat]

You're not going to upstage Missfran's thing are you fogbat?

My thing is longer, but has less girth

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

My thing is longer, but has less girth

Maybe a photo is needed?

 

[London_Calling]

self-sufficiency - in Basil

Hurrah!

 

[Lily]

If all humans died today, plants and trees would actually break all the concrete and buildings and stuff in not much time at all

I always find that a quite satisfying thought for some reason.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I don't have a garden or even a balcony but I still growed a thing:

I grew them tomatoes from seed, they're planted in an old stock pot. I've never grown food before. They just ripened over the last couple of days.

Gardening is addictive for this very reason. There are really few things quite as satisfying as eating food that you've grown. We'll have to start calling you "Farmer Fran."

 

[mrsfran]

Slightly disappointingly, they don't taste quite so astonishingly much more brilliant than the ones I buy. I was promised a practically orgasmic flavour sensation. They taste like tomatoes. Very nice tomatoes, yes, and I enjoy the smug feeling of having grown them myself. But in a blind taste test, I'm not convinced I could tell the difference between mine and good supermarket ones.

 

[The Groke]

Growing things to eat is probably one of the best things ever

the very basis of human society, in fact.

That, and SEX.

So logically, growing things to have sex with must be the absolute bestest thing ever.

 

[Idaho]

I have been told to come on this thread and say how proud I am of missfran.

One more time - with feeling please.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

Soon you will be able to have your own foodie television show rivalling Huge Furry-Whatsisname. You can call it 'Roadside Apartment'.

We call him huge furry whipping tool

 

[prunus]

Who wants to see my watermelon?

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[jontz01]

So logically, growing things to have sex with must be the absolute bestest thing ever.

Cucumbers ftw.