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Nasturtiums

Don my TonDon my Ton Posts: 78
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Has everybody else's nasturtiums gone wild growing lately?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's the rain😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Nasturtiums here were doing great up to a few days back after being slow in summer due to lack of rain but since the frosts arrived they are struggling and probably on the way out.

    Happy gardening!
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  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I have a patch on the allotment which were sown in 2021, last spring I found some seed in my pocket and recognising them to be nasturtium seed sowed them into the bare patch where they had grown the summer before, as the plants emerged I thought to myself, I'm sure that I didn't sow that many, no obviously as I know now they self seed like crazy. They were still growing the last time that I visited the plot although not showing much flower, I have been waiting for them to go over as I have a few spring bulbs left over to plant in the space.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You can eat the seeds, leaves and flowers in salads. That should shift some of them😏
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    edited November 2022
    I had to rip some of mine out, I let them go nuts and get in the way as I'm quite fond of them. However I have bulbs to plant and stuff to do and despite a decent frost none of them showed any sign of melting back.  Editing to say that was a week ago and they are still alive chucked on top of the wildlife stick heap.
    Wearside, England.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Yes, mine are going great guns after just about hanging on all summer. They're loving the moisture and mild temperatures. 
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Yes I had to pull some up too yesterday to get the bulbs planted. These were seeds from the springtime ones which have self seeded everywhere, even between paving stones.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    edited November 2022
    Yes here to. I pulled my nasturtiums 5 years ago but, they have seeded everywhere and there all over my garden. I just appreciate them now and pull the odd one I don't want in a certain place.

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

    George Bernard Shaw'

  • hernorrieshiphernorrieship Posts: 4
    I made nasturtium pesto today which can be frozen. I am harvesting my autumn nasturtium leaves (which are running riot) as there are no black fly which has prevented me from cooking with them until now.
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