The New Generation
24 August 2025 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI have been trying to harvest the seed from my marigolds, where the first plants are now starting to die off, mainly in order to stop random marigolds from sprouting up in inaccessible gutters etc. if the seeds spread around, but inevitably some gets away. I now have single marigold seedlings showing up underneath several of the parent plants ;-)
They may or may not overwinter, and may or may not flower before the winter -- probably not in the latter case, I think, although I have had second-generation marigolds before.
I have picked the first ripe fruit from my catch-up towel-tomatoes, which should give me an idea as to how long it will take any fruit from the new, healthy spurs on the old plants (which are now in flower) to ripen. Maybe a month at this time of year, if I am lucky?
I have an incredibly tenacious self-sown Swan River Daisy growing in what was intended to be the shallow, broad mesembryanthemum pot and which has somehow managed to survive and flower while suppressing the surrounding succulents, despite the complete disproportion between its rootball and the size of the plant! Those things really are as tough as weeds, which is of course how they initially managed to establish themselves as self-sown arrivals. The second batch of mesembryanthemums are doing well, though I think they are a long way from flowering, and I have the usual batch of late-summer self-sown mesembryanthemums cropping up in the tomato pots.
At the moment my 'garden' is dominated by rudbeckias, blue Swan River Daisies (no sign of any more pink ones), the last of the marigolds and some self-sown alyssum opposite the original pot (now going over).
They may or may not overwinter, and may or may not flower before the winter -- probably not in the latter case, I think, although I have had second-generation marigolds before.
I have picked the first ripe fruit from my catch-up towel-tomatoes, which should give me an idea as to how long it will take any fruit from the new, healthy spurs on the old plants (which are now in flower) to ripen. Maybe a month at this time of year, if I am lucky?
I have an incredibly tenacious self-sown Swan River Daisy growing in what was intended to be the shallow, broad mesembryanthemum pot and which has somehow managed to survive and flower while suppressing the surrounding succulents, despite the complete disproportion between its rootball and the size of the plant! Those things really are as tough as weeds, which is of course how they initially managed to establish themselves as self-sown arrivals. The second batch of mesembryanthemums are doing well, though I think they are a long way from flowering, and I have the usual batch of late-summer self-sown mesembryanthemums cropping up in the tomato pots.
At the moment my 'garden' is dominated by rudbeckias, blue Swan River Daisies (no sign of any more pink ones), the last of the marigolds and some self-sown alyssum opposite the original pot (now going over).