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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Mrs Ava on April 07, 2007, 18:28:18
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Is it still to chilly to plant these out??
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I just have to share with you our name for nasturtiums ~ nastyurchins! I think it depends where you are and whereabouts you plant them, i would probably wait a week or two and that's on the sunny south coast!!!!!!!!!!
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There are quite a few self set ones up on the lotty, about 2cm tall now 8)
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They self-seed in my garden too and are quite tough little so and sos so they should be okay if you have hardened them off. I sowed a few 'milkmaid' outside today.
G x
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Super. I shall harden them off over the next week, and then get them out and about in the garden. Lovely!
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i thought nasturtiums were fully hardy?
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I have the trailing variety, self sown all over the garden.
They seem to be very hardy and certainly can stand a little Frost.
One plant is in full flower in the unheated Greenhouse, has been for about 3 weeks, self sown from last year when I used Nasturtiums, Tagetes and Feverfew as companions with my GH Toms ... worked ace, never saw a Green/Black/White fly.
take a chance ... put them out
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Yes, nasturtiuums are hardy. But if they have been started off early undercover rather that sown directly where they are to flower in April then I think it's worth hardening them off for a week or so if you can, just to be on the safe side.
G x
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Well they are enjoying being out in the wilds, growing fast.
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I grow the trailers, and they'll be going in this week. A little late, but I haven't been very organised. I get the occasional one self-set, but it's very much the exception.
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I sowed mine yesterday, Tom Thumb variety. I have planted them along the paths at the allotment. I thought I would go for the minature version, because I had trailing ones at the last house, and they just took over everthing!
Must get round to getting some Calendula as well, but everytime I visit somewhere that sells seed I am draw to the veg section, looking for interesting squashes!! Rather than looking at the flowers!
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Take over is exactly what I want them to do. I've got a big pile of rotten wood in front of a tumbledown shed, and the better covered they are, the more I like it. they were a disappointment last year, as they did nothing in the drought, but most years it's been a success.
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Nasturtiums thrive in poor soil conditions. So don't feed them and just leave them too it and they should be fine.
G x
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we planted them in manured ground last year, we got huge plants with very little flower, made good green manure and the cabbage whites loved them ;D
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....and the leaves can go in salads & the dried seeds used as peppercorns 8)
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I,ve grown Nasturtiums before ,and they are indeed tough little beauties. ..but this year I thought I,d try the climbing ones . But ,just how good are they at climbing ,will they be able to climb the side wall of our cottage ? Or would they need fixing up some how,say on a net trellis? I
They are already coming up at the foot of the wall. Even the leaves are beautiful I think . :) Rohaise x
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I grew them last year in my flower garden. They became sacrificial plants against sawfly caterpillers which was a happy accident, but they looked terrible. Might try them down the allotment on that basis.
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Eeeeoooo! :o Rohaise
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Mmmmmm,, yes, but I held off ripping them up to provide food for the young Thrushs, Blackies and Robins that were all hatching nearby. It's tough feeling responsible for all those mouths.....
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The climbing variety climb by twisting their leaf stems around supports such as canes or other plants. They wouldn't be able to climb a wall unless you provided wires or similar.
G x
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Mmmmmm,, yes, but I held off ripping them up to provide food for the young Thrushs, Blackies and Robins that were all hatching nearby. It's tough feeling responsible for all those mouths.....
I agree, I'm like that with Pub Landlords, so many and oh so little time! LOL
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My nasturtiums keep coming back year after year.. they're like a weed and I've had to get rid of some of them.... problem is, they only flowered the first year I had them. For several years now, they're just leafy but I don't see a single flower on them. I have them growing in narrow plastic troughs.
vw
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I had freshly laid, boiled egg & nasturtium leaf sandwiches at the allotment today. BOOOTIFUL ;D