Had some fun planting tonight. Such an enjoyable experience to sow seeds, and I managed some thinning too on my vigorous nicandra seedlings, all the fruits, and the Limoncello basil. The pile of basil cuttings smelled like absolute heaven when I was done, lemon verbena meets...well I'm not sure. But I think I may just pile the thinnings in a dish and put in on the nightstand tonight so I can dream in Limoncello.
Navajo Sunset Hummingbird Mint, Oklahoma Salmon Zinnias, Cherry Brandy Rudbekia (annual type), Celway Terracotta Amaranth (what a rip this one was, barely 10 seeds in the pack for $5 and some of them had this yellow powdery coating, some kind of clay I think) Oakleaf Red lettuce and Tzimbalo.
I decided to regrow it, even though I still have seeds to see what it's like as an outdoor plant. It's the funniest thing, I always grow it in the greenhouse in a window box where it grows to a foot high. But I sent some seed saver friends seeds and they grew it in their garden where they said it got to 5 or 6 feet! And it also never matured fruit that way either. So, in a bigger pot outdoors it's going to go and we'll see what it does. Amazing though how variable it can be in size depending on how big the root system can get!
Until I dug up the photos for this post I had no idea that these were all similar in color.
Another funny coincidence, one of my tomato transplants for some reason is WAY bigger than the others, by a long shot. I keep doubles or triples of each tomato seedling variety until planting time just in case there is an accident of some kind, since I may have only 2 or 3 seeds left of any variety. And the only tomato in this years lot that is my last seed is Damskie Palchiki, that seedling is all have left of that variety. And wouldn't ya know it's that seedling which is towering above the others.
my daughters would love that!
