Plant progress
23 May 2026 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAll but three of my dozen basil seedlings -- two in one tub and one in the other -- have now died, and only one of those is putting on decent-sized adult leaves (ironically I appear to have a self-sown basil seedling in the midst of the spring onions -- which are doing well -- that is looking much more vigorous!) I didn't *want* a dozen basil plants all of the same age, but the incredibly high mortality rate definitely makes me more than ever suspicious of the compost, even though these plants didn't 'damp off' at the base but just went brown all over...
Went and bought a new bag of compost (and lugged it over my shoulder all the way up the long and winding staircase, which is one reason why I don't buy compost until I have to!)
After which I proceeded to use *old* compost to repot the sweet peas, on the grounds that they are adult plants and should be well beyond any danger of damping-off (although so was the most recent towel-tomato to go...) The sweet peas are now ending up going into the large pots that I would normally be using for the tomatoes later on, which is rather worrying, but they were clearly outgrowing the pots that they were in. I compromised by combining two of the smaller ones into a single large pot, then realised from the left-over labels that I had inadvertently combined one of the (shop) sweet peas with one of the (saved) sweet peas and no longer had any idea which had been which -- so much for the idea of doing a scientific test on the next generation :-p
Picked the first two pods off the dwarf peas, and promptly ate them raw :-)
I managed to split up two pots of Swan River daisies and prick out the new rocket seedlings from their undrained tray, and then ran out of steam. The pak choi seedlings badly need potting up. The seed labelled "love-in-a-mist" has now germinated, as has the Limanthes, but the former doesn't look at all feathery, so I wonder if I had mislabelled the seedheads!
Went and bought a new bag of compost (and lugged it over my shoulder all the way up the long and winding staircase, which is one reason why I don't buy compost until I have to!)
After which I proceeded to use *old* compost to repot the sweet peas, on the grounds that they are adult plants and should be well beyond any danger of damping-off (although so was the most recent towel-tomato to go...) The sweet peas are now ending up going into the large pots that I would normally be using for the tomatoes later on, which is rather worrying, but they were clearly outgrowing the pots that they were in. I compromised by combining two of the smaller ones into a single large pot, then realised from the left-over labels that I had inadvertently combined one of the (shop) sweet peas with one of the (saved) sweet peas and no longer had any idea which had been which -- so much for the idea of doing a scientific test on the next generation :-p
Picked the first two pods off the dwarf peas, and promptly ate them raw :-)
I managed to split up two pots of Swan River daisies and prick out the new rocket seedlings from their undrained tray, and then ran out of steam. The pak choi seedlings badly need potting up. The seed labelled "love-in-a-mist" has now germinated, as has the Limanthes, but the former doesn't look at all feathery, so I wonder if I had mislabelled the seedheads!
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Date: 2026-05-23 07:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-05-23 10:40 pm (UTC)I did have some unexpected pink Swan River daisies that appeared one year and produced pink offspring the following year, but the only ones that I have left now are all of the more common blue/purple sort.