Did my ears deceive me on the cuttings allotment-growing chocolate cosmos from root...They are self-sterile apparently. Guess I learned something completely unexpected.
I think she meant those dried up packs ( like dahlias ) you can buy in garden centres . If I remember rightly she said something along the lines of " I buy dried roots from supermarkets"
Chocolate cosmos is indeed sterile so has to be propagated from cuttings. I have found it to be a fussy plant so gave up on it some years ago. There are better performing plants with that colour of flower.
It's a bit late for pumpkins to be forming now so a small one will be no real loss. You want to be doing what's needed to make the bigger ones ripen ready for storage and eating.
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It's a bit late for pumpkins to be forming now so a small one will be no real loss. You want to be doing what's needed to make the bigger ones ripen ready for storage and eating.