![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Flax
I just wish to place on record how extremely pleased I am with my flax crop this year :-)
The individual flowers are very short-lived, but the plants keep on putting out more and more blooms on a daily basis, and they are very pretty -- I love the dainty blue-striped flowers. I've had an almost constant display for what feels like weeks [edit: since circa May 26th] out of half a dozen plants in the space of a six-inch pot and there is clearly going to be a decent harvest of seed afterwards.
Once I stopped feeding them they stopped flopping (I note that excessively fertile soil was originally noted as a problem, but I'd forgotten that!) and are now very happy, sturdy plants. Definitely worth growing again just for the sake of the floral display -- and we know they breed true, because this was from last year's seed!
The individual flowers are very short-lived, but the plants keep on putting out more and more blooms on a daily basis, and they are very pretty -- I love the dainty blue-striped flowers. I've had an almost constant display for what feels like weeks [edit: since circa May 26th] out of half a dozen plants in the space of a six-inch pot and there is clearly going to be a decent harvest of seed afterwards.
Once I stopped feeding them they stopped flopping (I note that excessively fertile soil was originally noted as a problem, but I'd forgotten that!) and are now very happy, sturdy plants. Definitely worth growing again just for the sake of the floral display -- and we know they breed true, because this was from last year's seed!