What's in your seed box?

LondonGranny no the seeds were for eating, super nutritious from whole food shops. It must be a relation of flax (linseed) but hemp is also grown for its fibre.

I am a bit confused still. I know you can buy flax oil and hemp oil which are different things.
Anyway the hemp flower is small and mauvy blue on a tall stem.

I have never grown Sweet William. I have no idea why.
I had never bought Penstemon until last year when a local guy had some spare and sold me some for very little.
These plants are lovely. How did I ever miss these.

Gramaretto, do you mean flax?

After I've harvested the runner beans there always some I've missed that have gone hard so I dry the seed from them and keep for next year.

If you don't have much room to grow things you don't want to have a loofer. I sent for some on the internet and they took ages to arrive so planting was rather late. Fruit didn't get a chance to mature but I will try again next year.

I haven't saved seed this year but have plenty of veg seeds for next.
I always buy far too many.
Our student grew hemp seeds in the greenhouse. Not the cannibis kind but the edible seeds. They took ages to sprout but grew very tall with tiny blue flowers. Is that the same as the crop grown for spinning?

I have trays of sweet william ready to plant out in the spring. They are slug resistent.

Definitely can't plant delphiniums as they a toxic to cats.
They are beautiful, though.

Thanks for those ideas, Bluebelle and LondonGranny
Now I don't have to buy a trellis.????

Dust! ?

...and my seed box has grown a bit...a friend has given me seeds from her mangetout on her allotment. They'd been given to her in a seed swap ages ago and she saves the seed each year. She has no idea what they're called but are an old variety and very delicious.

I have very little room so I shall try growing them through my climbers. Just one or two.

Last time I did Morning Glory I made a little 'forest' of twiggy prunings shoved in the earth (I often do this to deter cats from digging freshly sown flowerbeds and containers) and they twined around those.

What I did pageturner was I had some plastic squared wire and cut a piece and sort of bent it round to thalf the pot shape if you get me but also they can cascade downwards too so if you have something to put the pot on a shelf or tree stump etc that can look really pretty or hanging on the fence or wall

Hollyhocks, lupine and rambling nasturtiums - I’m going to do a bit of guerrilla gardening next spring!

*Bluebelle*. Growing the Morning Glory in pots may be a better idea. Thanks. Do you place a trellis in the pot?
I did see some thin bright green caterpillar-types about an inch long among the nasturtium so it might have been them eating the blossoms. I do think the grasshoppers were a contributing factor in the decimation.
One plant I always have is Petunias. I can always count on them to bloom all summer. So far there haven't been insects that eat them. Seems as though every summer that I've been gardening (7 years) I've had to contend with a different insect causing havoc.
I'm looking into getting some poly tunnels next summer.
It's only October and I'm already planning. It's going to be a loooong winter?

pageturner My nasturtiums were decimated by cabbage white caterpillars
I always grow morning glory in big pots or containers
My day lilies weren’t flowering at all until I split them all up then they have been brilliant this year

I've saved and dried seeds from the Honeydew Melons and Acorn Squash I grew this summer. They were exceptionally delicious and I hope the seeds grow next summer..
I've changed my mind about growing Morning Glory and Hollyhocks again. They are too invasive and I hate clearing up the fences they grown on.
This year, for the first time, I grew Nasturtiums. Very nice, but we had a plague of grasshoppers this summer and they ate all the blooms.
I will put bok choi and curly kale in my seed box when the 2020 seeds are available. I have a delicious recipe for kale salad that even DH likes.
I don't seem to have much luck with day lilies. They never have many blooms. I think since all the plants are from two original plants, they weren't very good in the first place.
I will start over with new plants next spring..

Big pansy seeds, violas, Spanish flag and verbena . I als bought a packet of pumpkin seeds as I've always wanted to grow one !

I bought some pansies from a local, family run nursery two years ago. The flowers were big and colourful so I gathered the seeds and planted them this spring. This was very successful so I am in the process of gathering the seed again for sowing next spring. I've bought other things from the nursery so don't feel too mean!

My main problem is fitting everything in!

I have 'Longfields Glory' which a friend gave me from her huge well-established clump....here's a pic off google.

Day lilies are brilliant aren’t they I ve got lots too but they don’t flower if they get too crowded I had to split a lot up last year as they were blind as bats this year flowered beautifully

That's really very kind of you but it really is slug central and I don't do slug pellets. Now I just grow things the slugs leave alone. I spent the first few years battling away and in the end I lost heart. Also plagued with lily beetle so I gave up on growing lilies. I grow day lilies instead now. I do love delphiniums so I go and see the National Collection in Regent's Park

If you want to try again I ll happily send you a few seeds Granny

Lovely!

londongranny for you

Bluebell, I'd love to grow delphiniums but they always get slugged. I have hollyhocks, climbing roses and foxgloves for height. Oh, and I planted a globe artichoke I bought at a local plant fair this summer but that won't get big until next summer. One time I did those giant blue echiums you get in the Canary Islands. They grow easily from seed, they take two years to flower. They self seeded all over the garden and became a bit of a pain in the end so I pullled them all up.