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igenlodeMoved the last of the dwarf peas into its probably-final pot -- they are all flowering now. At least one of the sweet peas will need potting on further, but none of those are in bloom yet; I now have three pots of 'saved' and one of 'shop' sweet peas, which was not a deliberate ratio but may reflect the viability of the older seed :-O We shall see whether the first-generation offspring are worth keeping...
Another of the 'good' (i.e. grown from a tomato that was bursting with seeds) towel-tomato seedlings has suddenly collapsed with a stem withered through at soil-level; I think I now only have three surviving plants out of a dozen from that batch, plus another one that is probably on the way out but is still apparently alive in a horizontal position.
They really should not be damping off when they have reached this stage of maturity -- this one already has flower buds on it! I can only assume that it is the result of non-sterilised compost, but everything else is growing in exactly the same compost. The tomato plants from the previous batch have their first flowers opening.
The two tiny chive seedlings were really not thriving in their (guaranteed sterile) coconut compost, so I have tried transplanting them into a small pot of general mix, where they may or may not survive -- they had almost no root. Ironically the original tuft of surviving chives has been thickening up quite nicely, although they are now dwarfed by self-seeded flax in that same pot! The pak choi/brassica has germinated, despite the age of the seed...
Another of the 'good' (i.e. grown from a tomato that was bursting with seeds) towel-tomato seedlings has suddenly collapsed with a stem withered through at soil-level; I think I now only have three surviving plants out of a dozen from that batch, plus another one that is probably on the way out but is still apparently alive in a horizontal position.They really should not be damping off when they have reached this stage of maturity -- this one already has flower buds on it! I can only assume that it is the result of non-sterilised compost, but everything else is growing in exactly the same compost. The tomato plants from the previous batch have their first flowers opening.
The two tiny chive seedlings were really not thriving in their (guaranteed sterile) coconut compost, so I have tried transplanting them into a small pot of general mix, where they may or may not survive -- they had almost no root. Ironically the original tuft of surviving chives has been thickening up quite nicely, although they are now dwarfed by self-seeded flax in that same pot! The pak choi/brassica has germinated, despite the age of the seed...
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Date: 2026-05-10 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-10 04:47 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have chosen to grow peas myself, but I was given the packet for free last year, and since they were labelled as 'dwarf' peas I thought it might at least be worth trying them out to see what happened. They did grow, and I got a crop of sorts. So I am using up the packet.
What I really ought to be doing is soaking and planting more of the peas to harvest as pea-shoot salad, which is a much more worthwhile use of space....
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Date: 2026-05-10 06:26 pm (UTC)