Bagging Tomato Blossoms - My Hobby

 I love growing tomatoes and I have a task I do on them that people think I'm made for doing, but it is what it is.

I place organza bags over my unopened blossoms, so that they can't get cross pollinated - see I told you.

Here's what my plot looks like.

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We Have Roots

 The tomato seedling chewed off by birds has now started getting roots while in a glass of water.

Growing Well

 A few quick snaps of what's growing well in the vegetable garden. Most things are loving the rain, well except for tomatoes and strawberries.

Local Rain and Flooding

Well, we're wet here again after 65mm of rain and as you can guess we've had some local flooding too, which is a regular thing this year.

Having been laid up with a crook back for two weeks, we went out today to have a look around, with our first stop at Weirs Crossing where the Avon River is running very high after Friday's rain.

From the Stratford side.

We then decided to take the Llowalong Rd to Briagolong, but water over the road had us unsure on its depth, so we went back a little to the Startford Briagolong Road, back to Boisdale, then up to the crossing at Valencia Creek, where the river was high, but lower than the flattened grass and trees on the river bank shows a drop in the river of probably 1.5m to 2.0m.

 

 

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Jan's taken over this bed.

 First came the Sweet Corn, then came the Potatoes, so the garden bed is overflowing with growing plants.

Tomatoes are in.

 The picture doesn't show te true story, as I had room for 8x small plants when this shot was taken, so I planted them and the first night, two plants were attacked by birds, one went, the other chewed off at the ground. I'm trying to strike the chewed off plant in water..