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I got zero germination from the leftover 'commercial' rocket, although the saved seeds from last year's plants are doing well -- that seed packet is evidently completely date-expired. I have emptied out what remains into the pot and we'll see if any of them at all germinate. On the other hand, the pak choi has come up nicely.
I have also re-sown a fresh batch of Swan River daisy seed (the paper is definitely labelled '2023', though I have some seed saved from 2022 as well...) as there has been no sign of life there. I have also put in some more chilli seed -- into the existing pot, which is probably a mistake, but I have very little room on that windowsill -- as the first batch has just been damping off and/or not doing anything for over a month, and the re-sown towel-tomatoes are doing much better than the first attempt (three seedlings up, one with open leaves, and another with neck bent).
The pink poppy seed has germinated with embarrassing abandon, so thickly that it is almost impossible to thin it out -- all I can do is pull out huge clumps and hope the survivors will fight it out among themselves :-O I was assuming the germination rate was going to be a bit lower than that, as the seeds are tiny and produced in vast numbers...
I have been trying to harden off the one vigorous towel-tomato seedling, which is getting a bit tall for the very-mini-greenhouse. Unfortunately, while the weather has been a lot warmer over the last couple of days it has also been very windy, and a leggy indoor-grown seedling is not well suited to survival under those conditions :-( I have been surrounding the pot with a windbreak of all the herbs I could muster, and eventually gave up and put it back inside the mini-greenhouse for its own safety. The mesembryanthemums had to come out to make room, but while they are also leggier than they ought to be it is on a much smaller scale!
I have also re-sown a fresh batch of Swan River daisy seed (the paper is definitely labelled '2023', though I have some seed saved from 2022 as well...) as there has been no sign of life there. I have also put in some more chilli seed -- into the existing pot, which is probably a mistake, but I have very little room on that windowsill -- as the first batch has just been damping off and/or not doing anything for over a month, and the re-sown towel-tomatoes are doing much better than the first attempt (three seedlings up, one with open leaves, and another with neck bent).
The pink poppy seed has germinated with embarrassing abandon, so thickly that it is almost impossible to thin it out -- all I can do is pull out huge clumps and hope the survivors will fight it out among themselves :-O I was assuming the germination rate was going to be a bit lower than that, as the seeds are tiny and produced in vast numbers...
I have been trying to harden off the one vigorous towel-tomato seedling, which is getting a bit tall for the very-mini-greenhouse. Unfortunately, while the weather has been a lot warmer over the last couple of days it has also been very windy, and a leggy indoor-grown seedling is not well suited to survival under those conditions :-( I have been surrounding the pot with a windbreak of all the herbs I could muster, and eventually gave up and put it back inside the mini-greenhouse for its own safety. The mesembryanthemums had to come out to make room, but while they are also leggier than they ought to be it is on a much smaller scale!