Welcome to my new blog "The Unfortunate Gardener". Why unfortunate? Well I took a video to track my tomato growth and I heard myself say "unfortunately" too many times. This is the first time I have tried growing vegetables and I am learning through my mistakes (and the internet).
This is not a "teaching" blog.... This is more a learning blog. Maybe you can learn something from my mistakes but I am hoping to learn more from everyone else. This is my gardening journal.
I am mainly gardening in pots as I find it too hard to get down on the ground and weed so I am keeping it all easy and contained so to speak.
I started with some herbs that my sister planted for me and have added to the pot garden with the following:
Tomatoes:
This is not a "teaching" blog.... This is more a learning blog. Maybe you can learn something from my mistakes but I am hoping to learn more from everyone else. This is my gardening journal.
I am mainly gardening in pots as I find it too hard to get down on the ground and weed so I am keeping it all easy and contained so to speak.
I started with some herbs that my sister planted for me and have added to the pot garden with the following:
Tomatoes:
- Tommy Toe
- Wild Sweetie
- Blueberry
- Black Cherry
- Ananas Noir
- Wapsipinicon Peach
- Jaune Flammee
- Yellow Ripple
- Red and Black (otherwise known as Indigo Apple)
- Tigerella
- Beefsteak
I don't know if it is too late in the season but I have also just planted seeds for Tiny Tim, Sunrise Bumblebee and Pink Bumblebee. (Will there be another unfortunately here ..... unfortunately I planted the seeds too late.......)
I will be tasting these to see what will be planted next year.
Chilies
- Jalapeno
- Thai Demon
- Trinidad Scorpion
- Habanero
- Yellow 7 Pot
Now I know that is a lotta heat - these are mainly planted for sauces except for the Jalapenos.
Lettuce
- Crispmint
- Mignonette
- Celtuce
- Baby Cos
- Red Flame
As well as carrots, radish, Baby Broccoli, Mini Muncher cucumbers, sugar snap peas, capsicum, strawberries, parsnips and cucamelons. I have also planted a finger lime tree.
I am having varied success so I am going to post and see if I can get some help.
Things I have learnt so far:
- Pots aren't pots. Size does matter - in the area of pots that is. I have planted some tomatoes in hanging pots and this may have been a huge mistake...
- On the same note - just because you plant something in a hanging pot doesn't necessarily mean it is going to "hang". Beautiful mind images of trailing tomatoes don't work in reality with Tommy Toe "sigh".
- You can love too much.. Stalking your tomatoes should be a crime. I think I may have over-watered at first. It is so hard not to....
- To be a gardener you need PATIENCE.... Who knew you didn't plant a seed and then eat a tomato a month later. Just getting them to planting out time took longer than I thought the whole process would take 😁😲.
- Don't they look so cute when the do start to sprout and even cuter when the tiny little baby fruit come through..... 💓
Here is my back garden in video. I will show you the front garden in the next post. The "forgotten" tomato type is Wapsipinicon Peach. No wonder I forgot it - I can't pronounce it! 🙁. Apparently it has a slight fuzz like a peach - hence the second part of the name. Also the red and black tomato is known as Indigo Apple - not Indigo rose as stated on the video. Here is a You Tube link. The actual video was too big to upload here.
Here is my first harvest of tomatoes - 2 little Tommy Toes.. How cute.
The little green caterpillars got the first couple - DOH!
