Potting on
13 April 2025 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeSplit up the four nasturtiums, and the coriander, of which of course we now have far too much (four pots of multiple seedlings; you get a pair of seedlings from the two halves of each viable seed, but even so there was clearly a high viability rate!)
Pricked out the 'old' chillies (sown at the start of March), although they have almost no root on them even now; they were growing in clumps and did need splitting up. But all the chilli seedlings are really still barely developed, despite all the warm weather, with just a couple just starting to put out true leaves.
I took off several inches of thick moss from one corner of the original tray of California poppies and inserted some of the various self-sown seedling California poppies from other pots in there. My long-established pots all seem to end up developing a covering of moss, which does help to stop them drying out but eventually makes it very hard to water the pot effectively in the first place! I end up stripping it off and storing it indoors to dry out, with the vague thought that in a dry powdered form it may serve as an analogue for peat (I stick it in the bottom of pots before filling them up with compost, in the hope of helping retain water down there without allowing the moss access to reanimate on the surface...)
Also transplanted the possible-corn-camomile from the sage pot into the so-called wildflower seed pot :-p
Pricked out the 'old' chillies (sown at the start of March), although they have almost no root on them even now; they were growing in clumps and did need splitting up. But all the chilli seedlings are really still barely developed, despite all the warm weather, with just a couple just starting to put out true leaves.
I took off several inches of thick moss from one corner of the original tray of California poppies and inserted some of the various self-sown seedling California poppies from other pots in there. My long-established pots all seem to end up developing a covering of moss, which does help to stop them drying out but eventually makes it very hard to water the pot effectively in the first place! I end up stripping it off and storing it indoors to dry out, with the vague thought that in a dry powdered form it may serve as an analogue for peat (I stick it in the bottom of pots before filling them up with compost, in the hope of helping retain water down there without allowing the moss access to reanimate on the surface...)
Also transplanted the possible-corn-camomile from the sage pot into the so-called wildflower seed pot :-p