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Update on tomato in hanging basket & Fuchsias

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The tomato plant in my hanging basket is still doing fine! it’s now about a foot high! The Fuchsias it is sharing the basket with are all flowering now. I’ve got a photo of it to post here!

This morning I noticed it now has some flowers as well! It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a cherry tomato after all but a normal one! It seems to be happy where it is so I’m leaving it there.

The Fuchsias I planted in the 5 baskets are doing very well & now most of the plants have some open flowers & all the plants are choc-a-bloc with buds! I’ve been taking some photos of the baskets & a few of the open flowers close up.

With the photo of one of the two standards & Dollar Princess, above, I see that the standard isn’t Dollar Princess as I thought a few weeks ago! The flowers of DP are bigger, fuller & fade in colour as they get older. The flowers on the standard are smaller & don’t fade as they get older.

I have lots of flowers still to open & they will look absolutely stunning over the next couple of months!

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All looking Super Balcony :)

7 Jul, 2009

 

Amazing. :~))

7 Jul, 2009

 

I love fuschia's and your's are great, I have three tomato plants growing in one my hanging baskets, they are about six to nine inches high and for the life of me I do not know where they came from as neither of us have sown them there.

7 Jul, 2009

 

Everything looks so colourful.
Well done. :o)

7 Jul, 2009

 

They all look lovely Balcony..........

7 Jul, 2009

 

looking good

7 Jul, 2009

 

Well done really pretty.

7 Jul, 2009

 

everything looks well.

7 Jul, 2009

 

Pretty!

8 Jul, 2009

 

Thanks everyone, pleased to see that so many of you like my balcony! :)

It's always surprising to see what plants pop up in the least likely places - like the tomato in my hanging basket!

8 Jul, 2009

 

What a beautiful blue the lobelia is.:0)

8 Jul, 2009

 

Yes, they are a lovely blue! Trouble is they self seed & even come up in the "lawn" (patch of grass in front of our block of flats) on more than one occasion! Even now they are coming up in several of the pots on the balcony. I've even seen them coming up in the cracks in the paving alongside the walls of the local pub when they had hanging baskets full of Lobelias! Now they've changed to baskets of plastic flowers - sacrilege! Lol!

18 Jul, 2009

 

There won't be any plastic flowers coming up through the pavement cracks :o(

18 Jul, 2009

 

An update on the tomatoes in the hanging basket.

I had to pick the biggest 3 tomatoes a couple of days ago as the very strong winds we have been having caused the poor plant to keel over. As I thought that he kink in the stem might stop the rest of the tomatoes from plumping up I removed the biggest.

I haven't tried to straighten the stem as this I'm sure will finish off the plant. I've left it to get on with its "business" of growing the few small tomatoes left.

For the moment the plant is still surviving but I don't know for how long.

29 Aug, 2009

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