Plant progress
11 April 2026 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodePricked out the Gypsophila vaccaria from its brown-paper pot, where the compost was worryingly dry despite the fact that I'd watered it only about ten minutes before; the other paper pots should probably be disposed of too.
I think we have dill germination, though I still can't be sure if any of the other seedlings in there are winter purslane or not. The double-fronded seedling was definitely a California poppy (and a fairly unhealthy-looking one) so I have disposed of it.
Winnowed the last of the 2024 basil in its brown paper bag, and sowed it. My previous attempt using commercial seed has clearly failed; the timing was over-optimistic. (I should, of course, be winnowing the 2025 basil seed and using that for preference, rather than trying to 'use up' the old bag first...)
I have been thinning/harvesting the lettuce, and probably ought to be sowing some more in order to have a progression; I harvested my first real crop of rocket today, and the kale has been yielding well (although it is now being afflicted by some kind of sap-suckers on the young growth).
I think we have dill germination, though I still can't be sure if any of the other seedlings in there are winter purslane or not. The double-fronded seedling was definitely a California poppy (and a fairly unhealthy-looking one) so I have disposed of it.
Winnowed the last of the 2024 basil in its brown paper bag, and sowed it. My previous attempt using commercial seed has clearly failed; the timing was over-optimistic. (I should, of course, be winnowing the 2025 basil seed and using that for preference, rather than trying to 'use up' the old bag first...)
I have been thinning/harvesting the lettuce, and probably ought to be sowing some more in order to have a progression; I harvested my first real crop of rocket today, and the kale has been yielding well (although it is now being afflicted by some kind of sap-suckers on the young growth).