Planting record
22 June 2023 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodePlanted more coriander (to replace the seed that totally failed) and pink Swan River daisy, since all the plants mysteriously wilted simultaneously. Also planted more poppy seed from some long seed-cases that I found -- probably Papaver dubium, which is boringly almost identical to the common field poppy apart from the shape of its seedheads :-p
My garlic had died down, so I pulled up the bulbs -- but although the original cloves *have* bulbed up, they haven't subdivided into fresh cloves, which is a common problem when you try to grow your own. Apparently caused by the plants not having overwintered!
It is looking very much as if the successful 'rocket' seedlings were in fact the pak choi, and that it was the rocket that failed entirely ;-p (In my defence, the seed leaves of the two species really are bizarrely similar -- or perhaps not so bizarre, when you consider that both are, in fact, varieties of cabbage!)
To be honest I'd rather have it that way round :-)
My garlic had died down, so I pulled up the bulbs -- but although the original cloves *have* bulbed up, they haven't subdivided into fresh cloves, which is a common problem when you try to grow your own. Apparently caused by the plants not having overwintered!
It is looking very much as if the successful 'rocket' seedlings were in fact the pak choi, and that it was the rocket that failed entirely ;-p (In my defence, the seed leaves of the two species really are bizarrely similar -- or perhaps not so bizarre, when you consider that both are, in fact, varieties of cabbage!)
To be honest I'd rather have it that way round :-)