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igenlodePotted on most of the dwarf peas and sweet peas, and some of the most crowded of the kale. I also split up the single pot of towel-tomatoes that has actually thrived and thickened up, as opposed to damping off -- I have lost another four tomato seedlings over the last two days, plus one that is leaning but *may* be showing signs of reorienting itself, suggesting that it is still actively growing and may just have been shoved over at an angle. :-(
Although one of the three tomatoes in the pot I just split lost most of its root to its neighbours in the splitting-up process, so I don't know if that will survive either...
We definitely now have a large number of basil seedlings, which will also need splitting. The Cumbrian yellow poppy is in bloom, along with the California poppies, and flower-buds have dropped on the sole overwintered orange long-headed poppy and one of the overwintered field poppies. The overwintered pot marigolds are also back in full bloom after having their flower-heads eaten off earlier, but the rudbeckias from last year are still at the stage of putting on leaf growth. I haven't sown any rudbeckia seed at all this year, since I still have three or so overwintered adult plants; possibly I should, since I'll get flowers later on into the autumn that way. The pot-marigolds are already starting to set seed (in April!)
I think the two not-tomato seedlings, which have survived and thrived, are actually cornflowers and not pot-marigolds. Which is good, because I like cornflowers and haven't sown any this year, owing to the 'wildflower trough' being still taken up by tulips (finally starting to show signs of dying back...).
I sowed another tub of lettuce/mixed salad a few days ago, and that is already germinating nicely. Perhaps I should be sowing some more rocket; I have been harvesting from the rather large number of plants that I have already, but they are all showing signs of trying to flower, although that may be stress from being in too-small pots :-( I did repot the two that are in the largest pot, ironically, because the soil level was pretty low in there. (I decided that the third, self-sown, plant in there was possibly not rocket after all, since the leaves were a different shape though the seed-leaves were brassica-identical, and removed it-- though I had been eating it, and the leaves did taste somewhat savoury as opposed to tasting of generic green weed!)
I showed Olga my completed translation of the Song of the Jester, since I'd been asking her about idiom in that during a previous rehearsal -- which was slightly embarrassing because she thought I wanted her to correct it and I had thought (hoped) that it *was* finished and correct :-O
But apparently it actually was (phew). At any rate, she was self-evidently very surprised at the quality of the verse/translation, and said so repeatedly and unguardedly. Which in one way is flattering, and in another way unflattering, because whatever she was expecting from me it clearly was not competence, let alone talent! (Given that I'd managed to *misspell* the phrase from the song that I'd previously jotted down in my notebook from memory to ask her about, this is possibly not surprising...)
My Russian is lame even in terms of comprehension (my compositional abilities are still pathetic), but my English *is* good.
Although one of the three tomatoes in the pot I just split lost most of its root to its neighbours in the splitting-up process, so I don't know if that will survive either...
We definitely now have a large number of basil seedlings, which will also need splitting. The Cumbrian yellow poppy is in bloom, along with the California poppies, and flower-buds have dropped on the sole overwintered orange long-headed poppy and one of the overwintered field poppies. The overwintered pot marigolds are also back in full bloom after having their flower-heads eaten off earlier, but the rudbeckias from last year are still at the stage of putting on leaf growth. I haven't sown any rudbeckia seed at all this year, since I still have three or so overwintered adult plants; possibly I should, since I'll get flowers later on into the autumn that way. The pot-marigolds are already starting to set seed (in April!)
I think the two not-tomato seedlings, which have survived and thrived, are actually cornflowers and not pot-marigolds. Which is good, because I like cornflowers and haven't sown any this year, owing to the 'wildflower trough' being still taken up by tulips (finally starting to show signs of dying back...).
I sowed another tub of lettuce/mixed salad a few days ago, and that is already germinating nicely. Perhaps I should be sowing some more rocket; I have been harvesting from the rather large number of plants that I have already, but they are all showing signs of trying to flower, although that may be stress from being in too-small pots :-( I did repot the two that are in the largest pot, ironically, because the soil level was pretty low in there. (I decided that the third, self-sown, plant in there was possibly not rocket after all, since the leaves were a different shape though the seed-leaves were brassica-identical, and removed it-- though I had been eating it, and the leaves did taste somewhat savoury as opposed to tasting of generic green weed!)
I showed Olga my completed translation of the Song of the Jester, since I'd been asking her about idiom in that during a previous rehearsal -- which was slightly embarrassing because she thought I wanted her to correct it and I had thought (hoped) that it *was* finished and correct :-O
But apparently it actually was (phew). At any rate, she was self-evidently very surprised at the quality of the verse/translation, and said so repeatedly and unguardedly. Which in one way is flattering, and in another way unflattering, because whatever she was expecting from me it clearly was not competence, let alone talent! (Given that I'd managed to *misspell* the phrase from the song that I'd previously jotted down in my notebook from memory to ask her about, this is possibly not surprising...)
My Russian is lame even in terms of comprehension (my compositional abilities are still pathetic), but my English *is* good.
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Date: 2026-04-26 06:21 pm (UTC)