09 July 2010

seeding

Lots of plants in my garden are making seed right now. Some of them too much!

I've cut a lot of Basil down, removing all the seed stalks except for ones I want, on the healthiest-looking plants.
The shorter, second set of Cilantro plants got the same treatment, only two left with flowers (because I see the insects attracted to them)
and the rest cut shorter.
Two of my Chard plants have made flower stalks too. I know they can cross with Beets but I don't have any beets flowering now, so I'm going to let these grow on and see if I get any viable swiss chard seed form them.
 One has a funny long stalk that's grow horizontal with the flower stems standing up from it.

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