and more comfortable on Friday morning than it had been all week so I decided to carefully hand-weed through the flowers growing in front of one the sunflowers Holiday before they started flowering. I thought that I’d sowed a packet of dwarf snapdragons there but they’re the dwarf candytuft Fairy Mixed Colours. If I did sow the snapdragons elsewhere then they didn’t germinate, or it’s possible that the packet of seeds is still at home somewhere, although I haven’t looked.
Earlier in the year I sowed a few pot marigolds Flighty’s favourites in a very small area next to the shed. They’ve done surprisingly well and made this area rather colourful.
Over by the dog-rose, between the taller self-seeded cosmos and the path, are these good looking pot marigolds Snow Princess.
Take care, and have a good week!
The onions Sturon are doing well and it won’t be long before the leaves start to yellow then topple. When that happens I’ll start lifting them to sort, store and use.
Yesterday morning there was another envelope which was hand written and posted from Cornwall. I opened it to find this lovely card along with a nice message and some seeds from Debbie, who lives in Plymouth.
The three cosmos Sonata White have been flowering continuously since last month and presently have five flowers showing, with several more buds on the way. Given that the plants are only around 6 in/15 cm tall it’s not surprising that the flowers are small, ranging from less than 1 in/2.5 cm to 2.5 in/6 cm across.
The first pot marigold Oospy Daisy flower appeared over the weekend, and there are two more on the way. The plant is now around 15 in/38 cm tall but thankfully doesn’t look leggy as it has plenty of leaves all the way down the stem.
I planted out the first early potatoes Pentland Javelin thirteen weeks ago, and as they’re a non-flowering variety I’ve waited for the foliage to start dying back. During the week I had a dig round one plant using my fingers and found these, the bottom two being about the size of a large egg. Needless to say they cooked well and tasted really good. I will be lifting more through the month as I need them.
The unsettled, damp weather looks like continuing through next week so I guess that I won’t be doing much plotting.
I don’t know the variety for most of the ones I grow as I originally started out with some seeds I was given, which I mixed with a packet of Art Shades Mixed. Since then I’ve let them self-seed and collected seed to sow in the spring. I’ve occasionally bought a packet of a variety that has caught my eye, such as Playtime Mix and Canteloupe, to add to them. One variety that can be identified is Snow Princess which has very pale yellow, almost white, flowers. This one is perhaps the whitest of these I’ve grown.
Sadly it was a different story with the last two Ms Mars which got almost completely eaten. Never mind, I’ll probably try this variety again next year.
The pot marigold seeds I sowed on the main flower patch last week are already starting to show, and elsewhere there are plenty of flowers like these yellow ones under the cornus.
