So the Cultivation Station is looking extremely tidy now. I hadn’t realised just how untidy an unruly tomato plant can make a raised bed look. Rich very kindly created a pyramid of canes (of which he was very proud of) and tied up the tomato plant (thanks to advice from www.growingyourownveg.com). I meanwhile dutifully removed the excess leaves that were bearing no fruit in order to aid ripening (thanks Daisyboots). It was like Christmas as a curtain of tomatoes were lifted and we noticed lots of little ones growing that we didn’t even know were there. Joy!

Unfortunately however we have also found some more tomatoes along with their stalks which are going brown, and I’m concerned after mentioning it on Twitter that it could be ‘blight’. I had my suspicions and resigned myself to the fact that we would loose a few to bugs, but this ‘blight’ is something I knew very little about until I had advice (thanks to http://twitter.com/Plantpassion).

If anyone else has any ideas, please do let me know.

I would like to say that I am finding Twitter very helpful at the moment following some advice from some Twitter gardeners. I’m currently keeping an eye out for caterpillars on the pepper plant leaves, but I have still not seen anything so I’m still thinking slug. Additionally more advice has come in the form of removing the leaves

shading the peppers in order to aid ripening as our big pepper is still green. It sounds really obvious when I think about it now, but still hopefully it will help.

Anyway please see a birds eye view photo of the tidy Cultivation Station, well ok top floor view.