Up Date on the everlasting Tomato
I have talked about growing Tomatoes from cutting on a couple of occasions but I still get funny looks from people and I don't think they believe me so let my again show you what is happening right now in my grow house.

This Tomato has never been planted out, it has spent all its life on the capillary table and was grown from a cutting.

Here you can see the roots projecting from the bottom of this pot
this is another 1 of 3 more cuttings just carefully put into potting mix and nothing else and sitting on the capillary table.

Three more cuttings all different variety's happy on the capillary table ready to replace my current crop.
When I first plant them I give a couple of watering's from the top just to make sure the capillary action gets started.

GOING NUTS.

Some time back I mentioned I had planted a peanut and it has been a most interesting plant to watch grow.
Now the time has come to harvest and I am pleased to say we have plenty of nuts, I have them drying while still attached to the plant they suggest that this is the best way to dry them.

Peanuts Drying

Following the Sun.

Now that the days are shorter and the sun has lowered in the sky like most places you start to get a few shadier spots and of course with conventional gardening you are stuck with that until the season comes around. Well let me just show you how to take control of your lighting and sun requirements for the home garden.

Hydro Wall Garden

Here you can see I have moved my Hydro Wall Garden on to the fence facing the morning sun there is a collection of things growing lettuce,herbs, Giant pansy and in the bigger hydro tray I have sweet peas and cascading Pansy's totally independent to all my other systems in fact I have a few other thing out on the fence getting maximum light and Sun as you can see.

Wall Garden , egg plant, Mint, Ginger, Strawberry's, Malabar Spinach.

Snow peas

In the grow tunnel lots of things are racing along with this cooler weather example here is the snow peas growing in an Autopot hanging basket.

A New Medium Test.

Picked up a few Coir- Peat Bricks at half price so thought I would try it out I like the idea of bulking up my quality organic soil, plus its another experiment.
This time I have use it to plant a replacement Tomato a new one that I have not grown before call Tommy Toe, I will be interested to see how it goes compared to my Pink Pearl that I love so much.
My mix is first 5ml 50/50 Mix which I call my wick, then about a 50 /50 Coir- Peat and Organic Soil mix for the rest.
We will follow with interest.

Tommy Toe in Coir- Peat Mix

Have a few Sweet potato cuttings coming along, these are the Purple skinned variety with the white flesh the (Kumera) I on grow these in what I call my waist product, which is the medium that I have used once in the Autopot system, I put it into large cheap soft pots with holes in, and just hand water with the occasional feed.

Sweet Potato cuttings in container with a little rock wool for support .

This is how things are growing at the moment.

Savoy Cabbage

Broccoli

Brussels Sprouts

I have mentioned the Darwin Lettuce before and the more I grow it, the more I like it, and the other one called Salad Bowl Green which has a red tinge. These are picking lettuces and they are just wonderful for sandwhiches or a fresh roll, they just keep growing and are slow to boult.

Darwin and Salad Bowl Green lettuce.