HOMEGROWN FRUIT & VEG IN AUGUST 2020
Aside from the Covid-19 turning the whole world topsy turvy since December 2019, my West Yorkshire garden has been unpredictable. I'm referring to the success and lack of success of seed grown fruit and vegetables. I thought we might have supermarket shortages but, thankfully, we have not. The weather too has been mercurial with long spells of heavy rain, and then long spells of sunshine. What a year! But August has brought gardening happiness and despite failures of the lettuce seeds (never germinated) and the Tumbling Tom tomato seeds (accidentally killed them off), I have a little kind of bounty going on now. Sugarsnap peas 12 August 2020 I grew the Sugarsnaps in a single pot, up a few canes, strung together with twine. I should have planted more seeds but hindsight and all that. It's too late now to plant more, I think. One success, I think, maybe, is the tomatoes grown from a supermarket tomato, Arlinta. Just one tomato at a fraction of the cost of the packet of Tom see...