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igenlodeA warm day, so I got round to putting compost (my saved compost from the pots emptied last year, since I have no means of disposing of it) in some more pots and attempting to split some of my seedlings and plant out some of the more delicate seed, since it's now almost April. Indoor planting is fairly pointless, as I don't have either a warm dark area or a well-lit windowsill.
I split up the rocket seedlings (germinated from the gone-to seed rocket of last summer, which is very satisfying) which had come up all in a bunch, moved some of them to the other end of the tray, and potted some up separately. I excavated one of the three (? or four) marigold seedlings to put it in a separate pot, but I think I damaged the root :-( So I put some more seed in with it, again sown thickly because the germination from the last batch was so limited.
I removed all the coriander seedlings from one compartment of the seed-tray (so much for the ancient and worm-eaten coriander seed!, split them between a couple of larger pots, and planted some chrysanthemum seed in their place. The dill seeds turn out not to have died after all, and I now seem to have two-and-a-half dill seedlings -- although last year's experience shows that they can die suddenly and all at once. The adult dill plants successfully overwintered, rather to my surprise, and are putting out tufts of feathery green growth from their stem centres.
I tried sowing my tomato-seeds-on-a-towel (towel and all), although I'm very dubious about the viability of those, since they were left on top of the radiator upstairs for a protracted period when the central heating came on. My poached-egg plants are coming up nicely, and I should probably be thinking about planting some basil. The pot full of poppy seedlings are putting out frilled leaves, which means they are definitely Oriental poppies and not field poppies — I can't remember if I sowed any of the red poppy seed or not and shan't be able to tell until some of the numerous other seedling poppies develop large enough to be able to distinguish! I suspect I strewed some of the yellow poppy seed around rather desperately, but so far as I know I've never managed to get that to germinate; it may have been an infertile seedhead. The only pot I definitely sowed it in has never germinated anything bar a little frill of lichen (sign of unpolluted air, allegedly).
I still haven't identified what the little slow-growing red seedlings are, although it's clearly some very fine seed that I scattered in various well-defined places without labelling it. I thought they were probably phlox, but the photos on the Web don't look anything like.
Edit: the plumber rang back while I was in the middle of typing. It's going to cost about two hundred pounds to get the blocked sink fixed, by the sound of it — but all my DIY attempts have failed, and the energetic hand-pumping has just made the existing leak on the overflow pipe much worse, as it forces the water up there under high pressure instead.
I split up the rocket seedlings (germinated from the gone-to seed rocket of last summer, which is very satisfying) which had come up all in a bunch, moved some of them to the other end of the tray, and potted some up separately. I excavated one of the three (? or four) marigold seedlings to put it in a separate pot, but I think I damaged the root :-( So I put some more seed in with it, again sown thickly because the germination from the last batch was so limited.
I removed all the coriander seedlings from one compartment of the seed-tray (so much for the ancient and worm-eaten coriander seed!, split them between a couple of larger pots, and planted some chrysanthemum seed in their place. The dill seeds turn out not to have died after all, and I now seem to have two-and-a-half dill seedlings -- although last year's experience shows that they can die suddenly and all at once. The adult dill plants successfully overwintered, rather to my surprise, and are putting out tufts of feathery green growth from their stem centres.
I tried sowing my tomato-seeds-on-a-towel (towel and all), although I'm very dubious about the viability of those, since they were left on top of the radiator upstairs for a protracted period when the central heating came on. My poached-egg plants are coming up nicely, and I should probably be thinking about planting some basil. The pot full of poppy seedlings are putting out frilled leaves, which means they are definitely Oriental poppies and not field poppies — I can't remember if I sowed any of the red poppy seed or not and shan't be able to tell until some of the numerous other seedling poppies develop large enough to be able to distinguish! I suspect I strewed some of the yellow poppy seed around rather desperately, but so far as I know I've never managed to get that to germinate; it may have been an infertile seedhead. The only pot I definitely sowed it in has never germinated anything bar a little frill of lichen (sign of unpolluted air, allegedly).
I still haven't identified what the little slow-growing red seedlings are, although it's clearly some very fine seed that I scattered in various well-defined places without labelling it. I thought they were probably phlox, but the photos on the Web don't look anything like.
Edit: the plumber rang back while I was in the middle of typing. It's going to cost about two hundred pounds to get the blocked sink fixed, by the sound of it — but all my DIY attempts have failed, and the energetic hand-pumping has just made the existing leak on the overflow pipe much worse, as it forces the water up there under high pressure instead.
