
Time to eat one of these babies!
The experiment: to grow tomatoes on my balcony during a Sydney winter using seeds scraped from a store-bought tomato. (Although we’re well into spring now.)
I wasn’t sure if this was ripe enough, but only one way to find out!
It was not quite ripe enough — slightly bitter, and not exactly full of flavour. There are 81 more on the plants, sized from marbles to small plums, so no doubt I’ll eventually get the timing right.
Tune in later for Tomato Diary 11.
How disappointing! It looked so perfect.
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Ah well, there are many more!
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It must smell lovely in your apartment. Nothing better than freshly picked warm tomato π
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No smell at all. One smallish, not-quite-ripe tomato is not very fragrant.
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Oh? I always find the leaves are very tomatoey!
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The leaves have a distinctive smell, yes, but the plants are 1.5m from the windows/balcony door, and it’s generally pretty breezy out there. Not much scent comes in — what I’m smelling these days is the mock orange shrub next door, which is flowering away. π
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Oh, well that’s a very nice scent too!
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The photography is a work of art π π
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Thanks Jo!
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You’re welcome π
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