hoping to avoid buying so much seed next year, particularly for flowers, so I've been going round today to see how many plants have properly set seed. a long spell of warm,dry weather has allowed the seed to ripen and dry out well on the plants. the nasturtiums have grown wildly this summer, flowered profusely and set a lot of seed - some is so ripe it's fallen from the plant but I've picked this up as well. grew calendulas and tagetes for the first time in a long while and both of these have set seed. these 3 seed-types I've brought inside to dry, then later I'll store in envelopes or used film canisters. plants such as nigella (love-in-a-mist), aquilegia and foxgloves generally just grow wherever the seed spreads to. as I've cut back the old dried stems of these flowers I've shaken any seed still in the pods in areas where I would like them to grow next year.
also started taking the seed beans from the runner bean row. they are starting to turn yellow and although not totally dried out I'm bringing them in while the weather is warm and dry rather than risking them getting wet.
Showing posts with label tagetes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tagetes. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
tomatoes
I am trying out a new variety of tomato this year - gartenperle, a very small plant suitable for baskets. I have 2 semi-circular baskets,each with 2 tomato plants, nasturtiums and tagetes-which should help keep whitefly at bay- fastened to a trellis support. in the very hot weather last week they were drying out and flagging, but since the rains have come they are looking much better and full of flower
baskets full of tomatoes,nasturtiums and tagetesmost of the other tomatoes are doing well though one, a small unstaked bush variety, got very battered by the rain- now tied up, it is improving. I have started to remove some of the leaves, all sideshoots on tall varieties and some side shoots of bush varieties to encourage early cropping and also to reduce the possibility of blight.
a shirley tomatothe shirley tomatoes are the most advanced as they were originally planted inside a small plastic greenhouse which has now been removed.
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