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Things that didn't germinate
I'm really not convinced that anything in the rudbeckia pot (after a month) is actually rudbeckias. Nor am I confident that much of the black stuff in the bottom of the bag is actually seed... Sowed some more, very thickly, using some of my surviving compressed commercial coconut compost, which is at least pretty much guaranteed sterile. I note that the saved seed completely failed last year, so this variety may simply not be capable of self-reproduction.
I think I have about one genuine mesembryanthemum seedling in that tray, though I suspect that quite a lot of other pots now have self-seeded mesembryanthemums in them, which I am keeping an eye on!
The coreopsis doesn't seem to be germinating at all either. There was very little left in the bottom of the packet of saved seed (and I think it was all petals), so I have emptied in the lot, thrown away the twist of paper, and metaphorically shrugged my shoulders. It didn't set a lot of seed and apparently none of it worked. Nor has the spring onion seed sown at the same time done anything (baby spring onions look like grass, and there is none of that in the pot), and I'm not convinced that the 'wildflower seed' from the same source has germinated anything but the standard compost weeds: corn-marigold, poppy, speedwell, chickweed, shoo-fly. The two pink Swan River daisy seeds have not germinated yet, although a whole batch of other seed-leaves that I don't actually recognise have come up in the pot -- far too many of them to be Swan River daisies!
More to my surprise, the second batch of rocket appears to have almost completely failed, with only one unenthusiastic-looking seedling, although the lettuce planted at the same time is flourishing. Put in some more of the saved rocket seed, which normally germinates with abandon.
Ironically enough I think I have a self-sown corn-camomile germinated in the sage pot, although no sage as such! And another one that got transplanted alongside the sweet peas some weeks ago, although that is now looking so feathery that I wonder if it might not actually be love-in-the-mist or something similar instead.
The very leggy sweet peas from the jar are finally opening actual leaves, as opposed to just having incredibly long shoots sticking up, which is a relief. Interestingly, the first batch seem much slower to put out climbing tendrils than the 'eating' peas, which were started later but are now clutching onto things around them. The biggest of the sweet peas are at a similar size and stage of development, but are only just starting to show their first signs of tendrils, whereas their counterparts are already hooked on in several places each.
I sowed a tray of basil; when I opened up the buds from last year's flower-spikes they had quite a lot of plump black seed inside them, so if all that germinates we shall, as usual, have far too much :-p
(There wasn't much to see in the bottom of the bag, so I started breaking up the buds with rather more abandon than was perhaps wise... I have saved back quite a few, though.)
I also pricked out/potted up the flourishing flax, or at least separated it into one larger pot and one slightly larger (but now with fewer plants in it than the original!) pot...
I think I have about one genuine mesembryanthemum seedling in that tray, though I suspect that quite a lot of other pots now have self-seeded mesembryanthemums in them, which I am keeping an eye on!
The coreopsis doesn't seem to be germinating at all either. There was very little left in the bottom of the packet of saved seed (and I think it was all petals), so I have emptied in the lot, thrown away the twist of paper, and metaphorically shrugged my shoulders. It didn't set a lot of seed and apparently none of it worked. Nor has the spring onion seed sown at the same time done anything (baby spring onions look like grass, and there is none of that in the pot), and I'm not convinced that the 'wildflower seed' from the same source has germinated anything but the standard compost weeds: corn-marigold, poppy, speedwell, chickweed, shoo-fly. The two pink Swan River daisy seeds have not germinated yet, although a whole batch of other seed-leaves that I don't actually recognise have come up in the pot -- far too many of them to be Swan River daisies!
More to my surprise, the second batch of rocket appears to have almost completely failed, with only one unenthusiastic-looking seedling, although the lettuce planted at the same time is flourishing. Put in some more of the saved rocket seed, which normally germinates with abandon.
Ironically enough I think I have a self-sown corn-camomile germinated in the sage pot, although no sage as such! And another one that got transplanted alongside the sweet peas some weeks ago, although that is now looking so feathery that I wonder if it might not actually be love-in-the-mist or something similar instead.
The very leggy sweet peas from the jar are finally opening actual leaves, as opposed to just having incredibly long shoots sticking up, which is a relief. Interestingly, the first batch seem much slower to put out climbing tendrils than the 'eating' peas, which were started later but are now clutching onto things around them. The biggest of the sweet peas are at a similar size and stage of development, but are only just starting to show their first signs of tendrils, whereas their counterparts are already hooked on in several places each.
I sowed a tray of basil; when I opened up the buds from last year's flower-spikes they had quite a lot of plump black seed inside them, so if all that germinates we shall, as usual, have far too much :-p
(There wasn't much to see in the bottom of the bag, so I started breaking up the buds with rather more abandon than was perhaps wise... I have saved back quite a few, though.)
I also pricked out/potted up the flourishing flax, or at least separated it into one larger pot and one slightly larger (but now with fewer plants in it than the original!) pot...