George came round this morning. We took a close look at the sad clump of horizontal cosmos and noticed that while one stem was pretty smashed, the others are still whole, although looking a bit stressed (I planted several together). So oh, so carefiully, George cut back the damaged one and also carefully liften the others and tied them to a cane for support. He then staked up the other clumps, in case this storm hits the south east (unlikely, I gather, but you never know).
And as if that wasn't enough, DD turned up with her squirter thing and some Bordeaux solution and the tomatoes got a good spraying - just in time too - we spotted one titchy patch on a leaf stem (now off and disposed of) but apart from that everything was sound. I feel a bit more relaxed about them now. And they've now got the right idea and are ripening fast. Good-oh!
Finally, my amaryllis has surprised me by flowering in an unusual way. No long stalk, just a couple of flowers. I wonder why.
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