Ok .... so anyone who knows me knows I'm completely lost when it comes to plants. All plants that arrive in my apartment with their lush green foliage soon turn brown or go bald under my care. So, it was indeed lofty aspirations that possessed me to attempt growing tomato plants from seeds. I had salvaged the seeds from some black cherry tomatoes that my aunt in London gave me to try ... and once I munched on one, I was sold! Black cherry tomatoes taste like balsamic vinegar - with their vinegar sweetness!
This was my cherry tomato plant a few weeks ago ... I'll post some more recent pics later ....
Given that I'd not had any hopes of any tomato seeds taking root, when I saw the little seedlings appear, I was absolutely thrilled! And that motivated me to finally take out the seeds for "cosmos bipinnatus" which a friend had given to me last Christmas (yes ... it took me a whole year to get round to planting them), and look what happened in less than a week after sowing the seeds ...
I took all the above growth as encouragement to sow more seeds, so during the Floral Expo in Taipei (to which we had managed to get a special invitation to preview), I bought some seeds for Marigold ...
Some more marigold and viola. which at this point - a couple of weeks ago - had not grown much ...
I also planted some Mealy sage as I have always admired the beautiful purplish hues of the flowers ... but these took the longest to grow...
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