I sowed these as Lettuce Tom Thumb - Mr Fothergill's seeds. I have an entire tray of these, any idea what they might be before I ditch the lot and try again? Thanks
Yes I did, but i have a hot composter and really let it cook, so I didnt imagine any annuals or other seeds would ever be viable. Dont have stachys in the garden so I dont believe it is that, but it must be something else which has rogued its way in. I did think that one seedling might be a tomato as they are all round the garden but I think he's a one-off. Well, if whatever it is isn't edible I will compost them. And to think I spent hours putting them into plugs..... If anyone has any ideas further let me know! Thanks Dove
could be bonariensis, I do have that in the garden. Cant eat it though! And where on earth did all those thousands and thousands of seeds come from?! My tray is thick with them. If it's from the hot composter I will be most cross. It's got up over 40 degrees sometimes. Maybe that's just not hot enough.
Sorry, but 40 degrees is nowhere near hot enough. you have beautifully demonstrated, why we should use sterile sowing media.
He calls her the chocolate girl Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her She knows she's the chocolate girl Cause she's broken up and swallowed And wrapped in bits of silver
oh well there you go. How hot should the composter get to kill off seeds do you think? It does get up to 50 sometimes but that's not a constant temperature
Tomato seeds often survive being cooked, transit through the human gut and then the municipal sewage system ... think it'll take more than the occasional 40C to stop them germinating ... and it's doubtful that they're the only ones ...
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Compost that you make is a soil improver, you dig it into your ground to enrich the structure and texture so that your soil can absorb other trace elements of what it needs, it’s not a growing medium, as you’ve found out.
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The compost I added to the garden this year resulted in a fine crop of tomato seedlings, as well as something that is probably a squash. My compost got too hot to stick a hand in, so it might cook some things, but as you have seen, not enough.
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Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
Cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver