Plant record
2 May 2023 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI have potted on the coriander and split up the rocket into the various pots previously occupied by the bolted pak choi. (I should probably sow some more pak choi but I'm running out of pots and out of space!) I kept one pak choi in the hopes of getting some fresh seed, and it is just coming into pretty yellow flower :)
Another nasturtium belatedly germinated out of the first batch I planted, making three -- no signs of germination from the second batch so far. The first batch took about 14 days.
The mesembryanthemums are now doing very nicely (the biggest ones actually flopped the other day, which I now know to be a rite of passage!) although I am still taking them in at night for fear of a repeat of the slug decimation of my original attempt at growing them in 2021.
I don't think the narcissus bulbs are going to flower this year (they are currently almost buried beneath masses of subsequently-germinated poppies!), but the grape hyacinth didn't flower in its first year either. It does leave me with the problem of what I am going to do with the bulbs over a probably-scorching summer...
The garlic, on the other hand, is doing extremely well. The chives and rudbeckia have shown no signs of life in three weeks, so I sowed some more. I also planted out the stump of one of the greengrocer's spring onions into the pot with my steadily-dwindling spring onion bulbs (now down to only two this year), and it seems to have 'taken' and is now growing vigorous alongside the others :-)
Another nasturtium belatedly germinated out of the first batch I planted, making three -- no signs of germination from the second batch so far. The first batch took about 14 days.
The mesembryanthemums are now doing very nicely (the biggest ones actually flopped the other day, which I now know to be a rite of passage!) although I am still taking them in at night for fear of a repeat of the slug decimation of my original attempt at growing them in 2021.
I don't think the narcissus bulbs are going to flower this year (they are currently almost buried beneath masses of subsequently-germinated poppies!), but the grape hyacinth didn't flower in its first year either. It does leave me with the problem of what I am going to do with the bulbs over a probably-scorching summer...
The garlic, on the other hand, is doing extremely well. The chives and rudbeckia have shown no signs of life in three weeks, so I sowed some more. I also planted out the stump of one of the greengrocer's spring onions into the pot with my steadily-dwindling spring onion bulbs (now down to only two this year), and it seems to have 'taken' and is now growing vigorous alongside the others :-)