(05-19-2023, 11:29 PM)Ninurta Wrote: It's a strain of poppy, what some folks call "breadseed poppy", from Afghanistan. But I don't think this one is going to bloom. It grew only to about 11 1/4 inches tall, popped out a flower bud, and that bud promptly died off. Now the leaves are dying from the ground up. It's trying to put out a couple side branches, but I doubt it will survive long enough to get that done.Well I hope some survive for you!
So my attempts to revive legacy poppies from Afghanistan may be at an end, I've still got about 10,000 seeds or so, so I may put every damned one of them in the ground this fall just to see if ANYTHING survives from them.
Poppy seeds only remain viable for about a year on average, so I'm not holding out much hope for them.
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I managed to get most of the garden in Sunday. I have 31+ tomato plants. LOL Now lets see if I can beat the blight this year.
Of course we are not supposed to get any rain for over a week, and now they are claiming a slight chance of frost Wed. Night. I swear, if it does, I will just give up the garden this year. I don't even have enough stuff to cover everything!!!
All I have left are a couple shade loving flowers, 2 white pines and mint I have to get planted. So I will be able to be pretty lazy this weekend, which is a 4 dayer for me! Super excited about that!