Nasturtium
Apr 28, 2020 18:49:38 #
Last fall as I was doing garden clean-up, I filled a five-gallon pail with stones and similar debris. That section of the garden was a rubbish heap in the distant past, so we find a lot of bits of glass, ceramics, old marbles, and unidentifiable rusty bits. Anyway, I put the pail to one side instead of disposing of its contents, and there it has sat ever since. I came across it the other day and a nasturtium has volunteered in the bucket. What it found to live on, I'll never know. Anyway, here it is.
Apr 28, 2020 19:07:02 #
If you feed nasturtium they make much foliage but no flowers. They love poor soil especially low nitrogen.
Apr 28, 2020 19:20:25 #
htbrown wrote:
Last fall as I was doing garden clean-up, I filled... (show quote)
HTBrown, beutiful.
Greg
Apr 28, 2020 20:59:39 #
bleirer wrote:
If you feed nasturtium they make much foliage but no flowers. They love poor soil especially low nitrogen.
You can't get much lower nitrogen than a bucket of rocks, so this thing should be bursting with flowers! Thanks for looking.
Apr 28, 2020 21:00:21 #
Apr 29, 2020 17:38:12 #
And what a beautiful nasturtium it is, Hugh! One of my favorite plants but will live only in the coolest months here.
Apr 29, 2020 17:57:33 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
And what a beautiful nasturtium it is, Hugh! One of my favorite plants but will live only in the coolest months here.
We never plant them, but they come up everywhere, particularly under the redwoods. If we like where they are, we let them be. If not... well nasturtium blossoms are tasty in a salad.
I liked this one in particular both because of its will to live, even in a bucket of rocks, and because it looks like it has teeth.
Thanks for looking, Dixiegirl.
Apr 29, 2020 18:45:30 #
htbrown wrote:
We never plant them, but they come up everywhere, particularly under the redwoods. If we like where they are, we let them be. If not... well nasturtium blossoms are tasty in a salad.
I liked this one in particular both because of its will to live, even in a bucket of rocks, and because it looks like it has teeth.
Thanks for looking, Dixiegirl.
I liked this one in particular both because of its will to live, even in a bucket of rocks, and because it looks like it has teeth.
Thanks for looking, Dixiegirl.
LOL That it does, and I love the colors inside the bloom. The climate there is perfect for nasturtiums. Just wish it was here.
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