'"Why Must it Always be Tomato Soup?"'

I've never been much of a gardener, and as is traditional, Gardener's Question Time is turned off faster than even sports coverage. Mostly it's been the lack of garden to do it in - and I don't believe in Blue Peter-style lifestyle porn. Someone, sometime, bought me some Stripey Tiger tomato seeds, which I grew in a large pot on my attic kitchen table in the Louis Street flat, and which was planted out when I moved back in with the Aged Ps. It was too late in the summer for them to ripen and so I was left with green tomato, fodder for chutney.

Last year, with a reasonable garden in Henry Court, I created myself a little patch of earth and grew a couple of tomato plants and some brussels. I got a few tomatoes off the tomato plants, but the brussels never quite took.

( It's so deeply true, don't you feel? Tomato soup is so dreadfully eternal. )

The Amateur Transplants

For those who like Tom Lehrer, check out The Amateur Transplants. (The rest of you can look him up when you get home.) Warning! Contains language!

If you dig around you can find videos of people lip-syncing to "London Underground", but this is the best. Warning! Also contains language! They also have a blog. Sometimes containing language! And a My-Space site. No doubt containing language!