The corn salad (Valerianella P. Mill.) has been sitting in a seed tray for ages. I can't seem to get the darn things to move beyond this stage so potted them up in a bigger pot this morning.
I've been waiting for the lollo rosso letuce to get a move on as well—I think they're not getting enough sunlight, might plant them outside under a dome (a pyrex salad bowl actually)
Planted Greek oregano (Oreganum vulgare L.), mixed Italian lettuce leaves 1, rocket (Diplotaxis erucoides) and a lemon variety of sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum var citriodorum) in a seed tray in the kitchen two Saturdays ago (18 September 2004).
Of course, continuing my gardener ingenu thing, I planted four rows of seed and forgot to mark which is which;-) Anyway, one row now looks like a bushy lawn and the other three are satisfyingly sprouty. My guess is that it's way too late in the year to be planting soft fleshy things, but I'll see how far I get with pots on the windowsill…
1 Mixed Italian (the packet is in Italian)
cicoria a foglie
grumolo verde
cicoria a foglie mantovana
pan di zucchero
cicoria a foglie rossa di verona
cicoria a foglie zuccherna di Trieste
crescione dei jardini
indivia riccia pancalieri a costa bianca
lattuga bionda a foglia lisca
lattuga bionda ricciolina
lattuga verde ricciolina da taglia
lattuga quattro stagioni
lattuga bionda degli ortolani
indivia scalia cornetto di Bordeaux
minutina herba stella
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