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Showing off the patch

Sara Cox | 12:35 UK time, Saturday, 22 August 2009

So, V-day came and went. V-day of course being veg day, when the Gardeners' World team came to film the patch.

The bottom of the garden was a hive of activity on the weekend before their Monday visit.聽I was furiously weeding and titivating the patch to make it a bit more presentable.聽

I could sense the carrots watching me fascinated, thinking, "Hmm... she looks familiar but we've not seen her for a LONG time."

I聽removed the sagging string that probably should've gone months ago and tried to wedge back together a bit of wonky fence. I just stopped short of polishing the tomatoes.

Sara's tomato plants, with lots of tomatoes, but also lots of blight. Speaking of which, despite the blight on the thick stems, the toms are coming along beautifully. It's a bit like a Hollywood action movie (albeit a slightly dull one) because its such a race against time. "Will the tomatoes ripen on the vine before the eeeviiiil blight monster catches them?"聽 So far, so good -聽Ann from the blog came to the filming day bearing organic blight buster and we gave the plants a thorough drenching in the stuff.

After my initial panic the filming went well and you can see the finished results (and my patch) in a couple of weeks on the show. It was nice to talk about the patch and kind of sum up what's been successful (carrots) and what's not (the lettuce incident).

The end of the experiment is nigh, and聽I only have a couple of blogs left to do, but I'm already thinking about winter planting possibilities (suggestions, anyone?)聽So, although I've not got fully green fingers, the tips are definitely tinged!

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