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Discarding plants
The not-a-strawberry plant completely failed to set any fruit at all; the flowers simply dried up and went brown. Since it was growing enormous leaves and sending out runners I uprooted it :-p
About half of my real strawberry plants have set fruit, albeit an average of two fruits each, and one of them is going red.
The apparently biennial 'wildflowers' of unknown species that I sowed a couple of years ago have finally opened, and turned out to be white campion; they are not worth keeping, as the small flowers only live a few hours before wilting and leaving behind their huge seed-cases. I have uprooted the two smaller pots, which were the result of an accidental second sowing of what turned out to be the same batch of seed, and discarded the remaining seed, keeping the single large tray for the moment. (Apparently campion is night-scented, although I'm not sure how it manages that unless it opens fresh flowers after dark; they just don't last long enough!)
Edit: I've just been out (10:45pm) to see, and there are in fact two newly-opened flowers. No discernable scent at all, though.
I also cut down the fiddlenecks, which had finished flowering and which I didn't want to wait to set seed from; they were getting in the way of the washing.
I have potted up the few struggling seedings that may be rudbeckia (they are still a fraction the size of the overwintered one -- assuming it actually is rudbeckia, as it hasn't flowered yet!), and sowed yet more chives, very thickly, along with more rocket, coriander and pak choi for a second generation. The basil is doing very nicely; I have potted up six seedlings, given away half a dozen spares, and now need to give away the remainder of the tray.
The Demon Red chilli is still only an inch tall, which means that it hasn't grown at all in the three weeks since it was repotted -- I suppose I can hope that it has been expanding its root system, but I'm far from confident of that! The dark-leaf chilli seedling (also a dwarf variety), which I have been keeping in the mini-greenhouse, is actually larger now, although it has fewer side-leaves...
About half of my real strawberry plants have set fruit, albeit an average of two fruits each, and one of them is going red.
The apparently biennial 'wildflowers' of unknown species that I sowed a couple of years ago have finally opened, and turned out to be white campion; they are not worth keeping, as the small flowers only live a few hours before wilting and leaving behind their huge seed-cases. I have uprooted the two smaller pots, which were the result of an accidental second sowing of what turned out to be the same batch of seed, and discarded the remaining seed, keeping the single large tray for the moment. (Apparently campion is night-scented, although I'm not sure how it manages that unless it opens fresh flowers after dark; they just don't last long enough!)
Edit: I've just been out (10:45pm) to see, and there are in fact two newly-opened flowers. No discernable scent at all, though.
I also cut down the fiddlenecks, which had finished flowering and which I didn't want to wait to set seed from; they were getting in the way of the washing.
I have potted up the few struggling seedings that may be rudbeckia (they are still a fraction the size of the overwintered one -- assuming it actually is rudbeckia, as it hasn't flowered yet!), and sowed yet more chives, very thickly, along with more rocket, coriander and pak choi for a second generation. The basil is doing very nicely; I have potted up six seedlings, given away half a dozen spares, and now need to give away the remainder of the tray.
The Demon Red chilli is still only an inch tall, which means that it hasn't grown at all in the three weeks since it was repotted -- I suppose I can hope that it has been expanding its root system, but I'm far from confident of that! The dark-leaf chilli seedling (also a dwarf variety), which I have been keeping in the mini-greenhouse, is actually larger now, although it has fewer side-leaves...