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

We’re back on track this week.

After investing in some much needed trellis, the plants are looking very healthy indeed (and sturdy). Just need to have some scorching sunshine to squeeze the tommies out over the next few weeks… although to be honest, the foliage is so thick, we may already have some - we just haven’t found them yet! He he!

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 68.8cm (+10.6cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 93.7cm (+15.9cm)
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

This jumble of thick leaves are our tomato plants… the neighbour’s cat jumped from a fence and body slammed (WWE-stylee) one of our massive potato plants, which caused a bit of a domino reaction, thus squashing our beloved tomato plants.

There were some good things to come from such a traumatic experience… our plants have practically stopped growing, but thickened nicely, has also flowered and is ready to shoot out some juicy tommies. And with a bit of luck, the cat swallowed a few slug pellets…

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 58.2cm (-0.4cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 77.8cm (+5.5cm)
Tomatoes: 0

The new single from the Brighton based band Two Spot Gobi was released on Monday - nomar had the pleasure of designing the cover art for this release, and by downloading a copy of the single you get FREE entry to their single launch gig at the Bush Halls, Shepherds Bush tonight. The track can be downloaded from all the usual online record shops including iTunes and Play.com.

Alternatively you can watch the whole gig live from the comfort of your own living room as the band will be streaming the gig on Stickam from 9pm tonight.

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

Despite the slowing growth of ‘the crop’ in Poole, I have reverted to portrait photos!

We’re slightly concerned that the plants are no longer thinking about the competition and have gotten lazy and fat (they just wanna grow out and not up). This could be due to all the rain over the last few weeks, but I’m not so sure. You see, we introduced some late arrivals to the garden a few weeks ago (too late for TT entry date), and they may be catching the eye of my plants and distracting them from the job at hand!

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 58.6cm (+6cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 72.3cm (+10.4cm)
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)

What a week! Veggie corner is beginning to take over our little garden in Poole - but you can just make the tommie plants from the rest of the jungle!

Its practically just rained down in Poole… it stopped long enough for us to tie the plants to their tiny canes and give them some tomato feed (possibly organic?) as well as slug pellets to keep them safe from all the hungry little buggers that seem to like munching on the rest of the garden!

Italian “Stallion” Plum
Measures: 52.6cm (+11.8cm)
Tomatoes: 0

Gardener’s “Angel” Delight
Measures: 62.3cm (+15.1cm)
Tomatoes: 0