Plant record
13 May 2023 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI sowed some more basil a couple of days ago; one of the two microscopic seedlings from last month damped off in the min-greenhouse, and the other one is probably going the same way (I moved it outside to see if that made any difference, but the true leaves are still tiny fragments and the seed leaves have gone).
I have split up a pot with two marigolds in it, and the one with the two largest Roma tomatoes (the small ones being in paper-bag pots with an eye to giving them away -- I should really give away one of the two large ones as well, rather than wasting pots and compost on them). I have also split the two largest towel-tomatoes and taken out the biggest of the smaller ones into an individual pot as well.
I repotted the flax, which is doing very nicely, and the cornflower that overwintered, which keeps wilting -- I assume because it has now grown much too tall for the tray in which it seeded itself, and can't get enough water up to its tips. It is on the point of flowering, as are the field poppies and the corn-camomile. The poached-egg plants are all in full yellow-and-white bloom :-)
The flowering pak choi is looking very ornamental, and appears to be setting seed satisfactorily -- I must remember to collect it before the pods split! The first of my bee-friendly seed has now come into bloom: the selection actually appears to be quite different from the photo on the packet, including flax(?), clover and other things I haven't identified yet. The one that is in flower has pale purple buds in a round ball that are just opening, and I think it *might* be fiddleneck -- the leaves are wrong for scabious.
[Edit: yes, it is fiddleneck -- I had a close look, and the flowerheads are not balls but tightly curled spikes like the scroll on the neck of a fiddle. Apparently it is an introduced American plant.]
I'm not convinced that the Flowers for Birds in the other half of the trough are doing anything at all, despite two thick sowings of the buckwheat; I suspect that everything which has germinated there was simply in the soil already :-(
I think the second batch of rudbeckia is germinating sporadically; no sign of life from the chives. The saved nasturtium seed has also produced two vigorous seedlings (can't remember how many seeds I sowed, but I think it was more than that!)
I have planted out the single Demon Red chilli that has reached a proper adult shape, with multiple true leaves (despite being only about an inch tall, with a corresponding inch of root); the others are still sitting around in their seed-leaves, and I should probably just throw them away since I only *need* one adult plant; I'm keeping them 'just in case'. Likewise the dark-leaf chilli has produced a single seedling that is showing some signs of development, and I have potted that up but been unable to bring myself to throw away the other two pathetic survivors.
I have split up a pot with two marigolds in it, and the one with the two largest Roma tomatoes (the small ones being in paper-bag pots with an eye to giving them away -- I should really give away one of the two large ones as well, rather than wasting pots and compost on them). I have also split the two largest towel-tomatoes and taken out the biggest of the smaller ones into an individual pot as well.
I repotted the flax, which is doing very nicely, and the cornflower that overwintered, which keeps wilting -- I assume because it has now grown much too tall for the tray in which it seeded itself, and can't get enough water up to its tips. It is on the point of flowering, as are the field poppies and the corn-camomile. The poached-egg plants are all in full yellow-and-white bloom :-)
The flowering pak choi is looking very ornamental, and appears to be setting seed satisfactorily -- I must remember to collect it before the pods split! The first of my bee-friendly seed has now come into bloom: the selection actually appears to be quite different from the photo on the packet, including flax(?), clover and other things I haven't identified yet. The one that is in flower has pale purple buds in a round ball that are just opening, and I think it *might* be fiddleneck -- the leaves are wrong for scabious.
[Edit: yes, it is fiddleneck -- I had a close look, and the flowerheads are not balls but tightly curled spikes like the scroll on the neck of a fiddle. Apparently it is an introduced American plant.]
I'm not convinced that the Flowers for Birds in the other half of the trough are doing anything at all, despite two thick sowings of the buckwheat; I suspect that everything which has germinated there was simply in the soil already :-(
I think the second batch of rudbeckia is germinating sporadically; no sign of life from the chives. The saved nasturtium seed has also produced two vigorous seedlings (can't remember how many seeds I sowed, but I think it was more than that!)
I have planted out the single Demon Red chilli that has reached a proper adult shape, with multiple true leaves (despite being only about an inch tall, with a corresponding inch of root); the others are still sitting around in their seed-leaves, and I should probably just throw them away since I only *need* one adult plant; I'm keeping them 'just in case'. Likewise the dark-leaf chilli has produced a single seedling that is showing some signs of development, and I have potted that up but been unable to bring myself to throw away the other two pathetic survivors.