It’s the final week of Tomato Tuesday and the competition has been fierce, the last few weeks have seen some massive tomato growth both in London and Poole. The jury are currently counting and the results will be published tomorrow, so check back then to find out the final points and who wins.

Although we still haven’t got any ripe tommies our late developing plants have increased by 60 tomatoes in just two weeks, so I think Stew may have been wise not to extend the deadline.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 160.2cm (+11.7cm)
Tomatoes: 35 (+23)

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 151.6cm (-10.7cm)
Tomatoes: 39 (+32)

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 176.4cm (+9.9cm)
Tomatoes: 63 (+60)

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 174.0cm (+24.3cm)
Tomatoes: 53 (+48)

Glad to say we have a few more tommies and the plants are still strong, although the plants all seem to have shrunk again this week. Not sure if that is my measuring skills or the wait of all those tomatoes. The tomato figures are the same as last week, as my official tomato counter has been away for a week - the figures will be posted as soon as possible.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 148.5cm (-1.2cm)
Tomatoes: 12

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 162.3cm (-7.2cm)
Tomatoes: 7

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 166.5cm (-2.5cm)
Tomatoes: 3

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 149.7cm (-4.8cm)
Tomatoes: 5

I know, I know i’ve been really slack updating you on how the London tomatoes are doing, but I want to make sure the suspense keeps you on the edge of your seat. So today on this Tomato Thursday I would like to announce this weeks stats are very impressive, well I think they are anyway.

As you will see it seems that our plants are shrinking, well they are in away as we are pruning them to help the tomato growth, although it pains me to cut them apparently according to Stew it helps… although he may be lying so we cut them.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 149.7cm (+9.9cm)
Tomatoes: 12

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 169.3cm (+5.1cm)
Tomatoes: 7

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 169.0cm (+0.5cm)
Tomatoes: 3

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 154.5cm (-15.7cm)
Tomatoes: 5

Yeah yeah yeah we have tommies, they’re not big but they are tommies.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 139.8cm (-14.1cm)
Tomatoes: 8

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 162.2cm (+21.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 168.5cm (+23.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 170.2cm (+27.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Slowly we are getting over last week and the plants are showing their metal by popping out a few tommies, they are only tiny but there are a couple dotted about so hoping more to report next week.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 125.7cm (-18.3cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 141.1cm (+20.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 145.1cm (+19.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 142.8cm (+17.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

I went for a jaunt down the South Bank on Saturday and after popping into the Tate i ended up at Design Museum. It has got to be one of the best design shops in London and i just couldn’t help buy myself a dog, so say hi to Boris.

Im hurting, i’m hurting real bad…. The team took a hit this week when they were ravaged by the same tomato hating cat that attacked stewart’s plants. The big boy on the left was the worst affected and we had to take quite a few centimetres off after he got bent double. The figures aren’t a pretty sight, but we are not giving up….. yet!

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 107.4cm (-15.6cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 121cm (+17.5cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 126cm (+22.2cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 125.4cm (+24.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Oh yes folk it is that time of the week again and I hope you are all eager to see how things are shaping up. With the summer ‘seeming’ so close you can touch it my London plants are lapping it up and using all of the suns life giving powers to grow mighty.

Still sadly no tomatoes to talk of but there are plenty of flowers now and before next tuesday we are hiring a crane to come and put some girders in the help support these monsterous beasts.

I am pleased to announce that the whole team have worked extremely hard this week and have managed to break the 1metre mark, so well done boys big pat on the back.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 123cm (+24.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 103.5cm (+19.8cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 103.8cm (+19.7cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 101.0cm (+21.3cm)
Tomatoes: 0

If size matters then London is King-Ding-A-Ling, the bizarre English weather of rain or shine does not seem to be having any ill effects on our plants. If anything it is having the opposite effect as they are growing strong and tall, with the “Yellow Yorker” nearly outgrowing the ruler used to measure it - 1 metre here we come!!!

The London plants aren’t as bushy as the Poole contestants but we will find out soon when it comes to producing tommies which is more productive. But I am hoping with both London and Pool flowering it won’t be long before one starts to bear fruit.

Im not sure if Stewart’s plants lack of growth over the last few weeks is a good sign of if they are saving all their energy for the tomatoes.

Yellow “Yorker”
Measures: 98.6cm (+25.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Alicante “Assassin”
Measures: 83.7cm (+23.3cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Money Maker “AKA The City Boy”
Measures: 84.1cm (+24.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

“The Perilous” Plum
Measures: 79.7cm (+19.3cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Forget the question what is nomar, what is Blackle? - well as the name kind of suggests it is a black version of your favourite search engine Google. I would imagine your next question is why bother, well the reason is to make your web searching more environmentally friendly.

By making the background of Google black not white it is suggested it could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year as it takes more energy to render a white screen than a black screen.

So for you eco-warriors out there, once you have finished your recycling and digging tunnels why not use blackle instead of google (it still uses google search just in a more economic way)