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Plant progress
8 November 2025 02:15 pmI have a bulb-shoot in the trough! Almost certainly the garlic, I think, rather than the tulips, but given that when it went in it was bone dry and had been out of the ground for months, and we're currently only in November, that was unexpected speed!
I repotted what was left of the chives, since the surface of the pot was looking waterlogged -- I thnk the drainage holes were entirely blocked by dead roots. There were a lot of what looked like rotted stems, and a few green shoots in the middle, so we'll see how the latter respond to being put into some drier compost. I also potted up four more spring onion stubs from the greengrocer, since only two of the old ones still survive, and put them into a new pot rather than trying to insert them into the existing one.
I have also harvested, or at least cut down, the basil seed spike during a dry day this week, and put it into a fresh brown paper bag labelled 'Basil 2025'; there is still some seed in the bottom of last year's bag and I don't quite like to throw it away.
The first of the towel-tomato plants has now entirely died, so I have been able to clear that pot. The others still have some live foliage on them, although it has mainly been a question of picking the unripe tomatoes for their own safety as the tendrils supporting them wither away. The Roma tomato, oddly enough, still has two vigorous branches with one decent-sized green fruit on each.
I repotted what was left of the chives, since the surface of the pot was looking waterlogged -- I thnk the drainage holes were entirely blocked by dead roots. There were a lot of what looked like rotted stems, and a few green shoots in the middle, so we'll see how the latter respond to being put into some drier compost. I also potted up four more spring onion stubs from the greengrocer, since only two of the old ones still survive, and put them into a new pot rather than trying to insert them into the existing one.
I have also harvested, or at least cut down, the basil seed spike during a dry day this week, and put it into a fresh brown paper bag labelled 'Basil 2025'; there is still some seed in the bottom of last year's bag and I don't quite like to throw it away.
The first of the towel-tomato plants has now entirely died, so I have been able to clear that pot. The others still have some live foliage on them, although it has mainly been a question of picking the unripe tomatoes for their own safety as the tendrils supporting them wither away. The Roma tomato, oddly enough, still has two vigorous branches with one decent-sized green fruit on each.