Mutant Tomato

My Costoluto Genovese tomato has a large mutant flower cluster where the growing tip of the main stem shoud be. I think this is called fasciation. There are conflicting views on what causes this, genetic mutation or a virus. Most views lean towards a mutation. I'm going to take a risk that it is a mutation, leave the plants in place and simply chop of the mutant, and hence to top of the main stem, to encourage the side shoots. Hopefully all will be well.



More Spuds

When I planted out the bed wth potatoes I put a couple of spare seed potatoes in a 40cm pot. I turned them out on the weekend and ended up with 2.8kgs. So the pot was a lot more productive than the entire bed which yielded 7kgs, mainly due to avoiding the slug attack that stopped the ones in the bed from growing to their potential.