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Plant round-up
30 July 2024 06:48 pmThe towel-tomatoes, now in full crop, are delicious, but when I wanted to start a new 'towel' for next year I had to open (and eat) three before I found one with any full-sized seeds in it, and even then there were only six, which is really not enough to ensure a new supply. Clearly I should have been examining the various tomatoes I have been previously eating at random more closely in order to save any seed they had in them...
( Tomato strings and washing line )
( Roma tomatoes and alyssum )
I acquired a new mystery plant in the form of a poor dried-up little pot that somebody put out for the rubbish (you can't do that! It's *alive*!) It seems to have turned the corner and looks as if it will survive, but I have as yet no idea what it is; I was hoping for some kind of cranesbill or similar, as it seems quite small-scale and delicate. The leaves and boles are actually a bit reminiscent of parsley, but don't seem to be parsley-scented.
The parsley is just about hanging on, but not thriving enough to harvest... as has been my more or less universal experience with parsley :-( The weedier of the two plants/seedlings is trying to flower, presumably a sign of stress.
( Coriander, poppies, rose, mesembryanthemums )
Both the honesty seedlings are looking pretty sick. I think the 'official' one is definitely on the way out, but the third, late-germinated one might possibly survive, although the Gypsophila vaccaria that was supposed to be in that seed compartment died on transplant -- not a problem as I have a healthy crop of it self-sown, which I have just harvested! We also have an unexpected self-sown Coreopsis turning up in one of the pots...
( Sorrel, kale, beetroot and rocket )
( Chillies )
( Cornflowers, marigolds, nasturtiums, limanthes and rudbeckia )
I have had far too many corn-marigolds all over the place, because I have been allowing them to develop to the flowering stage in the hopes that one of them might turn out to be a pink garden marguerite -- unfortunately none of them have :-p
( Swan River daisies and flax )
( Tomato strings and washing line )
( Roma tomatoes and alyssum )
I acquired a new mystery plant in the form of a poor dried-up little pot that somebody put out for the rubbish (you can't do that! It's *alive*!) It seems to have turned the corner and looks as if it will survive, but I have as yet no idea what it is; I was hoping for some kind of cranesbill or similar, as it seems quite small-scale and delicate. The leaves and boles are actually a bit reminiscent of parsley, but don't seem to be parsley-scented.
The parsley is just about hanging on, but not thriving enough to harvest... as has been my more or less universal experience with parsley :-( The weedier of the two plants/seedlings is trying to flower, presumably a sign of stress.
( Coriander, poppies, rose, mesembryanthemums )
Both the honesty seedlings are looking pretty sick. I think the 'official' one is definitely on the way out, but the third, late-germinated one might possibly survive, although the Gypsophila vaccaria that was supposed to be in that seed compartment died on transplant -- not a problem as I have a healthy crop of it self-sown, which I have just harvested! We also have an unexpected self-sown Coreopsis turning up in one of the pots...
( Sorrel, kale, beetroot and rocket )
( Chillies )
( Cornflowers, marigolds, nasturtiums, limanthes and rudbeckia )
I have had far too many corn-marigolds all over the place, because I have been allowing them to develop to the flowering stage in the hopes that one of them might turn out to be a pink garden marguerite -- unfortunately none of them have :-p
( Swan River daisies and flax )