What’s going on here? I was clearing a hape of dogwood, rose bushes and ivy…these came up with the ivy. They’re about the size of a sliotar (or cricket ball @TheBird)
I reckon they’re some sort of subterranean truffle cauliflower hybrid
Looks like a fungus
Fungus
wasp nest
Truffles apparently…they can grow under dogwood.
The lad in the vegetable shop had these down as tulips, we agreed they weren’t and he threw them to me at 6 pots for a tenner. Would they be some sort of hyssop?
I have them years but I don’t know what they are. They flower early and the flower is “insignificant” as they term it. It never really opens fully. It might be a purple form of “lilly of the valley” but the white ones I have flower much later.
Google Grape Hyacinth if your flowers open.
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That’s a shame! I was hoping they were hyssop… one of the best bee flowers apparently
They are a type of lilly chief. I was told the name but I couldn’t pronounce it never mind spell it
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I’ve seen the Hyssop in some local gardens. And they look nice too. But haven’t seen them for sale. Been meaning to get one.
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There’s an app called Picture This
You download it, take a picture of any plant and it will tell you what it is.
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Some of these have started to appear today.
I moved them to a warmer (but higher risk of child damage) location yesterday.
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The virtue signal here seems to be that males are bad for the environment?
Nice. I didn’t regularly feed them last year, occasionally only, and I wonder if doing so more often will produce bigger chillies.
I’m having war with a ghost chilli plant which was doing terribly, then great, then terrible again, and I can’t figure out why.
The hotter ones require less water by the way.
What are you working with there faldo?
Onions and shallots chief
Very nice. A bit of digging always puts me in great fettle. A ‘root slayer’ spade is a great yoke to work with…I’d even go so far as to call it a game changer
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I’m bollixed now. Cut the grass. Finished digging out a vegetable bed and then prepared it and put down asparagus and artichokes. Then I potted a load of herbs and vegetables I’ve been propagating for a couple of weeks. I’m sore from head to toe.
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