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TOMATOES IN DECEMBER

I thought I’d share the photo of my tomato plant, taken on January 6, 2021. I read in a summer edition of KG that new tomato plants can be grown from sideshoots, so I thought I’d experiment!

I put the shoot in a pot, added in the compost and for a while it was outside. As September/October came round I decided to bring the plant indoors and it’s joined me in my (since lockdown) office. To my delight, flowers began to appear, which in turn

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