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Potting on
I have split up the seedling spring onions (plus one basil!) between planting some of them back into the original 'spring onion pot' alongside the two adult bulbs, and some of them into an equally crowded but deeper pot than the one they were in. The basil is now on its own in the shallower pot, which should suffice it for a while yet. I also split up the mutant pak choi, which as before bears no resemblance to the commercial parent stock but looks like a wild cabbage :-)
I have given away the 'spare' Roma tomato out of the two that I kept, and two more of the original batch of towel-tomatoes; I still have seven plants, which is one more than I need, but I'm reluctant to cut down the 'good' towel-tomatoes (all three of them that made it to adulthood!) to only two out of six, while I don't want to give away my large plants or pots... The first tomato fruits are just starting to set, and I had another picking of pea-pods this morning, and two small but properly ripe strawberries (which is going to be most of this year's crop, I'm afraid -- only two and a half plants have survived, and they're not exactly thriving).
We now have Gypsophila vaccaria, pink Linaria, cornflowers, Mesembryanthemums and flax in full bloom, along with the field and oriental poppies, and the white flowers from the 'purple mix' -- oddly enough none of the cornflowers in that mix seem to have come out the dark red colour this time round. None of the California poppies have produced white flowers this year, even though I didn't think any of the old plants had died, so I'm not sure what happened there...
The first of the sweet peas (from the saved seed) has just opened, and has come out dark purple, although it doesn't seem to be strongly scented -- that may of course be a result of drought. We shall see if the 'saved' plants are more scented or not when those mature.
The two chillies that I kept from the pot of six are still tiny, but have put on considerable growth. I have sowed some more basil seed, from the 2025 bag this time :-)
I have given away the 'spare' Roma tomato out of the two that I kept, and two more of the original batch of towel-tomatoes; I still have seven plants, which is one more than I need, but I'm reluctant to cut down the 'good' towel-tomatoes (all three of them that made it to adulthood!) to only two out of six, while I don't want to give away my large plants or pots... The first tomato fruits are just starting to set, and I had another picking of pea-pods this morning, and two small but properly ripe strawberries (which is going to be most of this year's crop, I'm afraid -- only two and a half plants have survived, and they're not exactly thriving).
We now have Gypsophila vaccaria, pink Linaria, cornflowers, Mesembryanthemums and flax in full bloom, along with the field and oriental poppies, and the white flowers from the 'purple mix' -- oddly enough none of the cornflowers in that mix seem to have come out the dark red colour this time round. None of the California poppies have produced white flowers this year, even though I didn't think any of the old plants had died, so I'm not sure what happened there...
The first of the sweet peas (from the saved seed) has just opened, and has come out dark purple, although it doesn't seem to be strongly scented -- that may of course be a result of drought. We shall see if the 'saved' plants are more scented or not when those mature.
The two chillies that I kept from the pot of six are still tiny, but have put on considerable growth. I have sowed some more basil seed, from the 2025 bag this time :-)
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