I would like a place I can talk about the random happenings in my garden that don’t justify a stand alone post. Exciting things like my tomato plant finally growing, or the sadness that my snow peas seem to be dying off prematurely.
Would anyone else like to share their gardening snippits? If there is enough interest I can set up a regularly weekly thread (@[email protected] I presume that will be ok?)
Pic is just for interest - this is the collection of gardening pictures I put together to illustrate my garden design goals for a recent assignment.
I was nursemaiding my seedlings a lot at the beginning but am kind of letting them do their own thing now they’re a bit bigger. I’m still letting the damping off spinach sink or swim as I haven’t yet got more potting mix to dump out and restart that pot
I don’t have a lot of success with spinach - the seeds don’t sprout well, if they do the seedlings don’t grow well, and the few I manage to get to the stage to go into the garden tend not to grow well either. I keep persisting, and hope to work out what conditions they prefer. I have managed to get a couple growing ok in the garden at the moment, but a lot of their comrades died along the way.
My previous lot were doing fantastic over lockdown in cheap windowboxes (continuous sow baby spinach, Lazio F1) until they died in the heat (I forgot to water).
This lot (Viking?) were doing well until the continuous heavy rains flooded their self watering window boxes, and I didn’t remember to go pour the excess out of the bottoms. So they began dying off from fungal rot