It was not something I had in my mind to write about but I read this question in my stats and I think that is important to write a post about this.

The answer is no. No we don’t have genetically modified tomatoes in Greece. We have many tomato hybrids but not GM.

To be correct I will give you a link from Greek Greenpeace. You can translate it easily with google translate if you want.

As they wrote in their post, they found some experimental cultivation of GM tomatoes in Greece in 1997 and they start a campaign to stop it.

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I have months to write something here and the gardening season for 2011 just started for me. February was the month of seed madness. I send many heirloom seeds to friends in Greece and other countries so my desk it was full with seeds, stamps and envelopes.

I also search for my new needs. I found some interesting heirloom seeds from different people and organizations and I order some seed packets. Some of them are here already and I am waiting for the rest seeds to come.

The other thing I wanted except seeds  it was plant labels. Every year I sow more seeds and I need more labels. It’s not so easy to find here plant labels so I order from uk eBay usually. This time I order 200 plant labels and I hope I will not need other plant labels next year. It’s a big cost for me with package and posting from uk. The good part is that you can use these plant labels many years. I write the varieties and dates with a pen I had for cd’s and the autumn I clean my labels easily with cheap blue alcohol.

When I was in plot my tomato plants were bigger and some of them full of green tomatoes. I am sure I will eat tomatoes when I will go there again in July if the plants survive without watering.

Orange Banana tomato is one of my favorite varieties until now.

Silvery Fir tomato with its strange leaves had many tomatoes in every plant. The tomatoes are in the middle of the plant 10 cm above the soil. It was difficult to tie up the branches but ok this is my problem only because I late to tie up my tomato plants.

Yellow-Taxi tomato. This year I was lucky and I have 2 plants! It was my last seeds and this variety has its story in my garden because I had seen this tomato in Patrick’s blog 2 years before and he ask me if I wanted seeds. I said yes and after Patrick ask me if I wanted other seeds also and he send me 4-5 seeds from many colorful tomato varieties. So for me, it’s a special tomato for this reason.

Well that’s the photos I have this moment. The good part is that this year I grow some new heirloom varieties so I will grow my small seed bank also.

It’s so funny but when I come back to city from plot the weather change and we have a hot summer weather.  The days you can’t do anything, you just sit on a chair and swelter.

When I was in plot the sea was near but the weather was cold and rainy. Someone laugh with me…

I have many news for the plot but I can’t write about those news now, I must wait some months to see the outcome.  The news are good so far.

So much work to do and I didn’t find time to take a photo from plot. We had a strong rainstorm on Saturday and the road outside had problem because the last 350m it’s just soil road. The good news is that we harvest rainwater, we have 7200 litres now and this is very good for the summer.

This is the first time I have internet in plot, it’s funny because I didn’t have anything else but I have internet. For the moment I can work just 30 minutes every day with netbook. Next month I hope I will find a way to recharge it once.

These days I continue clean weeds. Well I can’t do anything else, the weather it’s cold for the sea. Some tourists swim but I think it’s hot for them if they live in cold countries. I need at least 32-36 celsius to swim.

My tomato plants are growing and for the moment they don’t need watering because of rain. I will take some photos the next days.