there's life in that vine yet
My pot plants haven't done well this season. Things started out okay, I began with clean tubs, new potting mix, but my seeds were old. Very old. In spite of that, quite a lot of them germinated, particularly tomatoes . Of course it would be the tomatoes....I eat so few of them , it's cheaper to buy a couple when i want them. Lettuces came up....and died. More were planted. They came up.....and died. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Who needs lettuce anyway? One capsicum seedling grew, (after three others had died); two miniature rockmelons , out of the four that germinated. Both developed flowers which died in the heatwave, although the plants survived. Damn heatwave! I moved all the pots around to the side of the house where they could get a little shade from the trees, but the air temperature was still way too hot. I have two surviving tomato plants which are nothing more than stalks with a few leaves. The capsicum is still hanging in there, about two feet tall, just a ...