Plant progress
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igenlodeSplit my three pink Swan River daisies up into individual pots. I also split the two blue ones that were sharing a pot (and terribly dry), which may have been a mistake, as they really are on the point of flowering; however, I have at least one more in an undisturbed pot on its own! I have also spotted some seedlings in another pot that do look rather like self-sown Swan River daisies :-p
Disappointingly, one of the self-sown mesembryanthemums has come to flower and turned out to be exactly the same dark pink as all the plants in the 'official' pot, so maybe I have simply lost the genetic variety in those :-(
The dark-leaf chillies really do have purple flowers :-)
The self-seeded buddleia managed to escape and put out a shoot that didn't get suppressed by the usual pinching-out process, which now has an unmistakable flower bud on it. So the dwarfed shrub has succeeded in reaching sexual maturity, which was the original aim of keeping it! Apparently they can flower when only two years old or even earlier, so it's possible that I was inadvertently pinching out the flowering shoots along with the rest of them, as I realised I had been doing with the sweetbriar, which likewise needs to be kept suppressed for the sake of my washing (as it is, I can't hang anything larger than socks in that corner!) when that first came into blooom.
In addition to the alyssum that I very carefully saved, and which is now merrily in flower, another alyssum popped up of its own accord in the fresh pot of coriander that I sowed (and which is still in dire need of thinning out...), and that is now flowering as well! So I shall have plenty to sniff, even if it is all at ankle-level.
I have tried sowing some of the seed from the laboriously-acquired pak choi pods, but I am not at all confident that it is either ripe or viable; however, if it is, I might get another crop this year. I have one plant remaining which has as yet neither bolted nor been consumed by caterpillars -- the rest I did manage to eat!
I also remembered to save some of the seed from the Roma tomatoes I cooked up last night; unfortunately the first ones I picked appeared to have have got frosted in the back of the fridge, which was rather a waste, but probably didn't matter all that much for cooking purposes.
Disappointingly, one of the self-sown mesembryanthemums has come to flower and turned out to be exactly the same dark pink as all the plants in the 'official' pot, so maybe I have simply lost the genetic variety in those :-(
The dark-leaf chillies really do have purple flowers :-)
The self-seeded buddleia managed to escape and put out a shoot that didn't get suppressed by the usual pinching-out process, which now has an unmistakable flower bud on it. So the dwarfed shrub has succeeded in reaching sexual maturity, which was the original aim of keeping it! Apparently they can flower when only two years old or even earlier, so it's possible that I was inadvertently pinching out the flowering shoots along with the rest of them, as I realised I had been doing with the sweetbriar, which likewise needs to be kept suppressed for the sake of my washing (as it is, I can't hang anything larger than socks in that corner!) when that first came into blooom.
In addition to the alyssum that I very carefully saved, and which is now merrily in flower, another alyssum popped up of its own accord in the fresh pot of coriander that I sowed (and which is still in dire need of thinning out...), and that is now flowering as well! So I shall have plenty to sniff, even if it is all at ankle-level.
I have tried sowing some of the seed from the laboriously-acquired pak choi pods, but I am not at all confident that it is either ripe or viable; however, if it is, I might get another crop this year. I have one plant remaining which has as yet neither bolted nor been consumed by caterpillars -- the rest I did manage to eat!
I also remembered to save some of the seed from the Roma tomatoes I cooked up last night; unfortunately the first ones I picked appeared to have have got frosted in the back of the fridge, which was rather a waste, but probably didn't matter all that much for cooking purposes.
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