Is it still to chilly to plant these out??
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!!!!!!!!!!
There are quite a few self set ones up on the lotty, about 2cm tall now 8)
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
Super. I shall harden them off over the next week, and then get them out and about in the garden. Lovely!
i thought nasturtiums were fully hardy?
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
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
Well they are enjoying being out in the wilds, growing fast.
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.
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!
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.
Nasturtiums thrive in poor soil conditions. So don't feed them and just leave them too it and they should be fine.
G x
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
....and the leaves can go in salads & the dried seeds used as peppercorns 8)
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
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.
Eeeeoooo! :o Rohaise
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.....
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
Quote from: froglets on April 24, 2007, 12:22:28
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
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
I had freshly laid, boiled egg & nasturtium leaf sandwiches at the allotment today. BOOOTIFUL ;D