Seeds 2023

Seeds sown 2023

Blessed Thistle

Echium Blue Bedder

Edible Flowers from Sainsburys

Houndstongue, sown 7-6-2023

Liquorice, sown 6-8-2023

Plant World Seeds, sown 8-5-2023

Safflower, sown 6-8-2023

Blessed Thistle seeds sown 6-8-2023

I added the blessed thistle seeds to this seed tray as a number of the cells are free.

Echium Blue Bedder

I'm not sure exactly when I sowed the seeds but by 9-6-2023, the seedlings were ready to be repotted

only the bright sunshine made these look lighter, they're the same as the ones above

24-6-2023

couple weeks later, lots of flowers 7-7-2023

Edible Flowers by Sainsbury's seeds sown 9-7-2023

I do buy more seeds than I can plant, including this year Edible Flowers from Sainsbury's.

I only managed to sow the seeds on July 9th - much too late but I figure I might get some late summer / early autumn flowers, maybe even some next year if they are hardy.

a number of seedlings, I added the foxglove from another pot (nothing to do with these edible flowers)

Houndstongue seeds sown beginning of June 2023

a few weeks later

I think the two seedlings on the top row in the middle might be the houndstongue I planted

the other possible houndstongue seedling

I potted those two houndstongue seedlings in small pots, 12-7-2023

two weeks later 28-7-2023, sadly the slugs have gotten to them, I'll have to keep an eye on them

23-9-2023 the larger of the two houndstongue is looking good

a few days later, the slugs have gotten to it

Glycyrrhiza glabra (Liquorice) seeds sown 6-8-2023

I'm not sure if this is one of the liquorice seedlings but it does look a bit different from the common vetch I have in the garden which is a similar plant.

A few days later and new growth, polemonium has been suggested, no idea how that would have gotten into my seed pots, haven't had one in my garden for years and even then, it was only briefly. Another wait and see.

closer view

Plant World Seeds

I haven't been able to do too many seeds this year but I did plant a few. I planted this tray with seeds from Plant World Seeds (Eryngium Leavenworthii, Aethionema saxatile, Umbilicus rupestris). I would not recommend them as I had zero germination. I think they are a scam. I thought I'd try them and only wasted money on 3 packets of seeds. And now I know.

a month later, all the usual self-seeded "weeds" I get in all my pots, green alkanet, annual mercury, shoofly, etc but NONE of the seeds I sowed

and a month after that, June 2023

Sept 2023 I checked the seed tray as I'd added other seeds to it. I was surprised to see what looks like navelwort seedlings.

closer view of the cells with the navelwort (top left, bottom right and bottom row 1 cell from the left)

Safflower seeds sown 6-8-2023

planting advice I found was to have the seeds on top of the compost

after a couple days, I see the seeds sprouting

safflower seedlings 28-9-2023

I'm not sure what these are but there are at least 8 the same and in the pots so feel sure they must be the same thing. Similar to willowherb but don't think it's that and would be quite coincidental to have the same self-seeder in these two pots. Will have to wait and see.