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igenlodeI have been given half a dozen tulips ("Plant from August onwards") which need to go into the ground as soon as possible and be planted 4 inches deep, which rules out most of my available pots, especially since I still have tomatoes in seven of the biggest of them. So I decided to empty out the wildflower trough as previously planned, even though the feathery thing there was still green and growing despite having been taken indoors last week to dry out -- it was definitely the right decision to start all over again with this, since after I had cut down all the top growth the remainder came out of the pot as a single tightly-packed ball of roots with almost no earth left between them! I ended up putting the whole mass into an empty compost bag to dry out and ideally break down a bit over the next few months, and then emptying all sorts of other pots as a result in order to put their earth (and the accompanying wildly jerking worms) into the now-empty trough around the tulip bulbs.
I have pulled up a lot of Swan River daisies, which seem to have finished putting out new flowers for the year. The rudbeckias are mostly still in bloom, apart from a couple of this year's seedlings that never got as far as flowering... one of which turned out to be clearly an evening primrose rosette instead! After a moment's heart-searchig I decided to discard that one (the parent plant is still busy setting seed), as although it was thriving manfully in a pot that was far too small for it I don't really need a second clump of evening primroses.
I also turned out two fairly large old pots of rocket that had been retained in the hopes of setting seed; the pods on them were tiny and probably didn't have anything in them anyway, and they were taking up too much space. I do currently have several thriving new pots of rocket from which I have been able to harvest regularly.
I have a number of successful pots of kale in addition to the original parent plant, which is now reinvigorated despite having flowered -- although I discovered a fresh batch of tiny caterpillars devouring them this morning, alas. Very odd that the caterpillars go preferentially for something as tough and serrated as kale... I still need to pot up or discard the remaining seedlings in the original windowsill-tub-without-drainage-holes, which are still alive and relatively thriving and from which I have likewise been harvesting!
The basil is still doing pretty well, and I'm still hanging on to the last moment to try to ripen some seed from the one that got away, so didn't want to empty any of those pots yet...
I have pulled up a lot of Swan River daisies, which seem to have finished putting out new flowers for the year. The rudbeckias are mostly still in bloom, apart from a couple of this year's seedlings that never got as far as flowering... one of which turned out to be clearly an evening primrose rosette instead! After a moment's heart-searchig I decided to discard that one (the parent plant is still busy setting seed), as although it was thriving manfully in a pot that was far too small for it I don't really need a second clump of evening primroses.
I also turned out two fairly large old pots of rocket that had been retained in the hopes of setting seed; the pods on them were tiny and probably didn't have anything in them anyway, and they were taking up too much space. I do currently have several thriving new pots of rocket from which I have been able to harvest regularly.
I have a number of successful pots of kale in addition to the original parent plant, which is now reinvigorated despite having flowered -- although I discovered a fresh batch of tiny caterpillars devouring them this morning, alas. Very odd that the caterpillars go preferentially for something as tough and serrated as kale... I still need to pot up or discard the remaining seedlings in the original windowsill-tub-without-drainage-holes, which are still alive and relatively thriving and from which I have likewise been harvesting!
The basil is still doing pretty well, and I'm still hanging on to the last moment to try to ripen some seed from the one that got away, so didn't want to empty any of those pots yet...