This month I’m following Carol from May Dreams Gardens who on the 15th of each month posts photos of what’s blooming in her garden for “Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day”. Here’s a collage of what’s flowering here today:

top: Lagerstromia Indica “Lipan”, Nepeta Fasenii “Six Hills Giant”, unk David Austin rose, Rosa Floribunda “Friesia” (“Sunsprite”);
2nd row: Zinnias (mixed) x 2, Salvia “Black & Blue”, Salvia buchananii;
3rd row: Rosa Floribunda “Burgundy Iceberg”, Oriental Lillium “Optimist”, Rosa Floribunda “Europeana”, mint;
4th row: unknown tree, sweet basil, fuschia, tomato flowers

Great idea Carol!

Yes, it is a big call but I hereby throw down the gauntlet and challenge everyone to match your favourite home-grown veg against this stunner.

Its aroma and taste is delicious. Its incredibly versatile and now a staple of many countries around the world. I’ve always found the plants easy to grow and producing masses of vegies. Better still, eating them has some great health benefits.

However, there is one winning factor for me that makes them stand above the rest of my vegie patch (also literally) and it is this; I can think of no other vegetable which, when home-grown, demonstrates such a *huge* difference in taste from the supermarket variety.

I’m talking of course about the tomato. Continue reading »