Garden Catmint Nepeta racemosa Germinated well
English sage Salvia officinalis Germinated well
Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum A few germinated
Japanese catmint schizonepesa tenuifolia No sign of germination
Chinese liquorice Glycyrrhiza Uralensis (Gan Cao) No sign of germination (I do have a few plants from last year though)
Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium No sign of germination (But I have more and the ones in the herb garden seem to have germinated)
Russian Tarragon Artemisia dracunculoides Germinated well
Artichoke Imperial Star Cynara scolymus Germinated well Nearly time to put these out. I'll leave them a couple more weeks just in case of frost
Giant cape gooseberry Physalis peruviana Germinated well but most were eaten by a slug or snail
Dwarf cape gooseberry Physalis pruinosa Germinated well
Tomatillo Verde Physalis Ixocarpa A few germinated
Aubergine Snowy F1 (One that slipped through) Solanum melongena A few germinated
East Indian Lemongrass Cymbopogon flexuosus Germinated well but quite a few seem to have been eaten I really need to get some nematodes
West Indian Lemongrass Cymbopogon citratus Germinated well but quite a few seem to have been eaten
Chilli Numex bailey piquin Capsicum annuum A few germinated
Chilli Bhut Jolokia A few germinated
Pepper Red Cheese Capsicum annuum A few germinated
Chinese milk vetch (Huang Qi) Astragalus membranaceus Germinated well
Asparagus Conover's collossal Asparagus officinalis
Shamanic tobacco Nicotiana Rustica Germinated very well
Tobacco Havana Nicotiana tabacum Germinated very well
Tobacco Virginia Germinated very well
Grain Amaranth No sign of germination.These seeds may have been collected too early I was in a rush to leave my last project. I reseeded with some of the original packet from last year
Quinoa Chenopodium quinoa No sign of germination.These seeds may have been collected too early I was in a rush to leave my last project. I reseeded with some of the original packet from last year
Water melon Blacktail mountain (Got the name wrong in the original post short season) Citrullus lanatus Germinated but got eaten replanted
Dyers greenweed Genista Tinctoria No sign of this but then it was allowed to dry out completely just after planting. I'll try again.
Peppermint Mentha Piperita Germinated well
Celery tall Utah Apium graveolens dulce Germinated well
Pepper Italian pepperoncini Capsicum annuum Germinated well
Tomato box car Willie Lycopersicon esculentum Germinated well
Chilli Navaho
Chilli Serrano tampequino A few germinated
Aubergine Early long purple 2 Solanum melongena Germinated well
Indian pot chilli A few germinated
Pepper Santa Fe Grande A few germinated
Tomato Ailsa Craig Germinated well
Chilli Numex Espanhola A few germinated
Chilli Delhi hot A few germinated
Pepper Anaheim A few germinated
Tomatillo purple Physalis ixocarpa Germinated well
False Saffron Kinko (Safflower) Carthamnus tinctorius Germinated well
Tomato Black Russian Germinated well
Pepper D-asti Giallo Germinated well
Echinacea angustifolia Germinated well
Celery Red Soup Germinated well
Lemon Coriander Coriandrum sativum Germinated well
Celery Green soup Germinated well
Okra Hill country heirloom red Abelmoschus esculentus Germinated well
Oysterleaf Mertensia maritima May have germinated (Might be a weed seed can't tell yet never seen this plant before)
passiflora edulis No sign yet
passiflora edulis No sign yet
and in the top of the bed in 4 places Melon Collective farm woman Cucumis melo inodorus Germinated well
None of the pots put outside to stratify have germinated yet. Nor the big pots on the floor in the bender (These may have been eaten by rats we're using eradibait to reduce their numbers. It's a substance made of corn cellulose wheat flower and molasses it coats their gut and prevents the signal that makes them drink from reaching their brain. They die of thirst horrible for the rat but safe for everything else. Unfortunately they are competing for our food and present a risk of disease so they have to go).
All the plants in trays in the bender have germinated except the papaya but it hasn't been warm enough in here for that one. If I put it in the hotbed it may germinate.
Forgot to say the passiflora caerulea germinated (Two of them)
Pretty much everything in vegetable beds one and two have germinated but in the polytunnel only the thyme, sage and radish have come up. Most of the beetroot seedlings were eaten so I replanted them.
I planted 19 pieces of ginger Zingiber officinale in three rows at the Eastern end of the polytunnel in between the rows of sage and thyme. (They'll be coming out before the ginger gets large)
That's it for the moment The herb beds are germinating but they're a bit small to see what's what yet.
None of the pots put outside to stratify have germinated yet. Nor the big pots on the floor in the bender (These may have been eaten by rats we're using eradibait to reduce their numbers. It's a substance made of corn cellulose wheat flower and molasses it coats their gut and prevents the signal that makes them drink from reaching their brain. They die of thirst horrible for the rat but safe for everything else. Unfortunately they are competing for our food and present a risk of disease so they have to go).
All the plants in trays in the bender have germinated except the papaya but it hasn't been warm enough in here for that one. If I put it in the hotbed it may germinate.
Pretty much everything in vegetable beds one and two have germinated but in the polytunnel only the thyme, sage and radish have come up. Most of the beetroot seedlings were eaten so I replanted them.
I planted 19 pieces of ginger Zingiber officinale in three rows at the Eastern end of the polytunnel in between the rows of sage and thyme. (They'll be coming out before the ginger gets large)
That's it for the moment The herb beds are germinating but they're a bit small to see what's what yet.
Hello
ReplyDeleteYou have a lot of land there. I was wondering if your tomatoes and squash get a white fungus on them and die. Mine do except the chery tomatoes. They seem to do fine.
Hi Joe, Ann here. Did send you this info through email, but looks like it didn't get through, so thought adding a comment to the blog might be safer.
ReplyDeleteSo, the driplines can be ordered from this webpage - http://www.watermate.co.uk/dripline.html
it's the bottom right hand corner item, "extra lines of soaker dripline" and it's £25 per 100 ft (which is more than I remembered). 100ft should easily do your bit. That's just the thin pipe with the drippers in it, you also get a load of connectors and stops. In total we can probably put another 200ft in the polytunnel, plus I think I'll run a bit of spaghetti line into the corner where we were going to put the vines too to irrigate them, any more and the water pressure is likely to be to low to run the system properly.
Poss see you this w/e, may even put some aubergines in!
Ann
Thanks Anne
ReplyDeleteDublin Mick Are these seedlings or growm plants? If it's seedlings they could be damping off http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping_off which could mean too much moisture in your growing area.
If grown plants it could be late potato blight which affects both the potato/tomato family and also the cucurbits. The same case applies, too much moisture/humidity in your growing area.
Joe
Damping off
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