{"id":139095,"date":"2023-09-07T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-have-created-a-monster-can-nothing-save-me-from-the-tomato-plant-from-hell-adrian-chiles\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T06:19:58","slug":"i-have-created-a-monster-can-nothing-save-me-from-the-tomato-plant-from-hell-adrian-chiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-have-created-a-monster-can-nothing-save-me-from-the-tomato-plant-from-hell-adrian-chiles\/","title":{"rendered":"I have created a monster. Can nothing save me from the tomato plant from hell? | Adrian Chiles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAll I wanted was some delicious homegrown produce. Now I\u2019m the one who\u2019s likely to end up as dinnerBack in the spring, I was given two tiny tomato plants. Unpromising as they looked, I felt I had to be a good father to them. They grew very slowly at first but, thrillingly, a scratch of a leaf yielded a tomatoey smell. I went away for a week or two and they were bigger and better and now the leaves barely needed scratching to yield that scent. Summer had come, on paper at least, so I decided it was time for these babies of mine to strike out on their own. Their safe windowsill perch was, I sensed, breeding complacency. Outside they went, together, looking lost and vulnerable planted in a big plastic bucket. They looked in at me sadly, drooping in reproach. I feared the worst. Glancing at them as I packed to go away again, I felt sure their end was nigh.Imagine my delight when I returned to find they\u2019d gone completely nuts. We\u2019ll show that cruel man what we\u2019re really made of, they seemed to have decided. This ain\u2019t over. And the growing wouldn\u2019t stop. Two plants seemed to have turned into countless plants, which had then morphed into a kind of mega-bush. I bunged in some bamboo canes but they lost the battle with the plant, which was now sprawling everywhere. I went and bought some sturdy supporting thingies from the garden centre but they soon disappeared into it too, swallowed up by the billowing green mass, which had developed a decidedly threatening aura. What it hadn\u2019t developed was much in the way of tomatoes, just lots of tiny green ball bearings amid the flowers.Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster, writer and Guardian columnist Continue reading…
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