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Plant reproduction
My myriad pak choi seedlings are growing their true leaves, which don't look anything like the adult plants (and do, on reflection, look rather like young winter cabbage!)
I wonder if they are reverting back towards the wild form?
They can scarcely have cross-bred with anything else, since I'm not growing any other form of brassica....
I also seem to have acquired a scattering of rocket seedlings, presumably self-sown at the point a few days ago when I cut down the parent plants and harvested the pods. They look identical but taste different :-p
One of this year's strawberries has managed to root a runner successfully in the neighbouring cornflower pot -- that second batch of cornflowers is still going. I have been taking off all the other runners since I want the young plants to concentrate on 'hearting up' rather than spreading themselves out, but that one has rooted itself firmly and may as well stay!
The grape hyacinth managed to *push up* the thick layer of moss growing in that pot by sending up fresh offshoots from underneath, which looked very odd -- like a head of beer toppling of a glass in ultra-slow motion! I have managed to pull an inch or so of moss off the top while detaching it from the shoots that were piercing through it, which means the soil level in that pot is considerably lower now and you can see how much the original bulb has fattened up. It has also produced a fresh crop of multiple offset bulbils, so may end up rather crowded in its efforts to be invasive :-p
I have some fresh poppies flowering in the pot in which I planted the initial batch of long-headed poppy seed, but so far as I can tell they are the perfectly ordinary sort growing in there anyway as weeds ;-) The other batch are displaying distinctively different leaves and badly need thinning out further and repotting from their shallow seed tray.
The Cumbrian yellow poppy, having been overshadowed by field poppies for months, hasn't been particularly vigorous this year and has shown no signs of flowering :-(
I wonder if they are reverting back towards the wild form?
They can scarcely have cross-bred with anything else, since I'm not growing any other form of brassica....
I also seem to have acquired a scattering of rocket seedlings, presumably self-sown at the point a few days ago when I cut down the parent plants and harvested the pods. They look identical but taste different :-p
One of this year's strawberries has managed to root a runner successfully in the neighbouring cornflower pot -- that second batch of cornflowers is still going. I have been taking off all the other runners since I want the young plants to concentrate on 'hearting up' rather than spreading themselves out, but that one has rooted itself firmly and may as well stay!
The grape hyacinth managed to *push up* the thick layer of moss growing in that pot by sending up fresh offshoots from underneath, which looked very odd -- like a head of beer toppling of a glass in ultra-slow motion! I have managed to pull an inch or so of moss off the top while detaching it from the shoots that were piercing through it, which means the soil level in that pot is considerably lower now and you can see how much the original bulb has fattened up. It has also produced a fresh crop of multiple offset bulbils, so may end up rather crowded in its efforts to be invasive :-p
I have some fresh poppies flowering in the pot in which I planted the initial batch of long-headed poppy seed, but so far as I can tell they are the perfectly ordinary sort growing in there anyway as weeds ;-) The other batch are displaying distinctively different leaves and badly need thinning out further and repotting from their shallow seed tray.
The Cumbrian yellow poppy, having been overshadowed by field poppies for months, hasn't been particularly vigorous this year and has shown no signs of flowering :-(