Now I know that most of you good folk have perfectly maintained gardens where everything is nicely staked and all your plants are dead headed when they finish, but ours is not quite like that. So I wondered what, when you miss that insignificant seed pod and it sprays its contents over your pristine weed free mulch, and they all grow, do you do with the baby plants?
I hate throwing good things away. Example. Yesterday when clearing out under the bench in the Gazebo I found s bundle of plants growing in the gravel. they have to be moved they will not survive long. So now what do I do with 50 or so Anthericum lilago? Or, ditto 10,000 Galtonia candida, or 1,000 Galtonia viridiflora or Viola corsica, Viola sororia alba, rubra, Freckles. I could go on.
So, go on then, what do YOU do with these things?
Pot up a few if they are reasonably rare or just need replacing, compost the rest! It is aquilegia and Salsify here!
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What about offering them up in the Swap Shop?
We usually let them grow if it is a suitable place or replant them. Below is an example of what has happened to our garden wall. All of the top are seeds that have germinated from the stuff in the garden below. On one of our other walls you would see antirhinum, grasses and a variety of other things whose seeds have got trapped in the wall. Isn't nature a wonderful thing? :D busy_lizzie
So did we , but I have just spent a week removing Anemone japonica from one border where it has self seeded and killed everything which was there.
It don't half make hoeing the borders hard!
I pot them up, then I used to plant them in the front garden as I removed the square of lawn and used it for 'spare' plants. Now that is full I am thinking of digging up the long rectangle of grass that divides our drive and our neighbours and planting there. :-\
I do give plantlets to my sis, mum, neighbours and chums.....but inevitably some end up on the compost heap. :-[
I will always take some Anthericum lilago of your hands Eric. ;) ;) ;D
My reply was going to be that EJ would make them into a soup or a chutney, but then saw that she came up with an alternative ;D
Bring the sidecar with you next time you are up this way EJ and we can fill it for you.
I keep what I want and weed out the rest. on my plot it's opium poppy, evening primrose, borage and great mullein.
I try to move them to a more suitable spot where they're wanted. But if there's no space then they go into the compost bin. I don't see it as wasting the plants because they get used up in a positive way.
Give them away Eric, i am sure you would have plenty takers. ;D
Hurrah!. This afternoon we went to a Nursery, high up in the hills above Welshpool. The drive up there was stupendously beautiful. The setting for the nursery magnificent. We bought a few plants (it is getting harder to find things we like which we have not already got), chatted to the owner and discovered that many of the self seeding things we have are on her wants list. She can have them with pleasure!