Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Alyssum - Snow Carpet - potting on

KiliKili Posts: 1,104
edited April 2018 in Plants
Hi guys, can you advise please?

I sowed (is that the right word) some Alyssum - Snow Carpet seed in two single trays and there quite big now. I need to pot them on but not having grown these before I'm not sure how to handle them.

Should I treat them like Lobelia and just dig out small clumps and pot on or would one take out a single stem and put this in its own pot. I estimate I have about 300 single stems ( in clumps) in two trays .

I have a 30 foot raised bed I want to trail the Alyssum over at the front.

How would you pot on?

Many thanks

Kili

'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw'

Posts

  • DimWitDimWit Posts: 553
    In my garden, alyssum grows quite large (about 10" x 10"), so working with clumps is not a good idea, wait till others advise you better. Maybe next time you could be sowing them in cells...
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Whoops!!  thanks Dimwit, cells might be the way to go. Lets see what the rest of these lovely people think.

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I grew some of these last year after finding the seed packet a little chewed at the corners by mice or rats, now dealt with.   I sowed in cells and potted on each cell as a clump and then planted out the little clumps.  They grew well, flowered for months and were still sporadically flowering thru winter until the Beast from the East clobbered them.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Thanks Obelixx. I've got so many in two trays at the moment it would take me a week to pot on to individual cells singly so will go with potting on in small clumps and try cells next time if I use Alyssum again.  :)

    'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.

    George Bernard Shaw'

Sign In or Register to comment.