They’re finally big enough to get a decent picture, too.
I re-sowed into the little flower bed at the end of the high raised bed, when nothing at all made it from the winter sowing experiment. Actually, some may have started to germinate, only to get killed off. Mostly by rolling cats. What did come up was massive amounts of tiny weeds.
Which happened her last year, and is starting to happen again now!
The pairs of roundish leaves are the nasturtiums. They have such large seeds, I was able to push them into the soil in two evenly space rows. They are very easy to identify. The other seedlings, not so much! There are asters and cosmos in here, but it’ll be a while before we’ll be able to know for sure what their germination rate is.
What I can identify, however, are the weeds. The darker green sprouts with the red stems. Those are the weeds that infested this bed, even with the gourds and pumpkins covering everything. When I started cleaning up the bed in preparation for sowing new flower seeds, these same weeds were already starting to take over, and now they’re back again!
I don’t know what it is about this particular bed. The garden soil is from the same pile we bought a few years bag and used to amend all the other beds, and none of them have it. These are a common weed for our area, and I remember pulling them when helping my mother weed her garden here, decades ago. Since we’ve started gardening here, I haven’t seen many of them, until they showed up in this bed, last year.
For them to come back again, in such numbers, several times in the same space really has me wondering how this particular patch of garden got infected with their seeds so badly!
I can’t even try and weed them right now, as at this stage, as there are so many, I’d be pulling up other seedlings, too. It’ll have to wait until everything gets bigger.
I know asters can grow here – we have them growing wild, even – and I remember my mother used to grow cosmos here, too. I’ve never grown nasturtiums, though.
It should be interesting to see how they do, here!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 