My Delphiniums are almost a foot high already, they are in a huge terracotta pot, so no doubt its storing heat from the weak sunlight we are getting atm. Should I just leave them to get on with it, or should I consider nipping out the tips?
@Johnjoe your delphinium are as high as my one used to be and it had lovely flower stems in May. If you take off the tips you’ll have no flowers this spring.
In other words, nothing wrong with your delphinium.
Thanks Simone, that means Slug duty starts early this year! They were decimated overnight last year, and the year before! This year I am determined to get a good show
I lost our beauty last year to these awful little black slugs after 6 years of joy. My last years new attempt failed. I got a new one bought in October which made it until now and is around 20cm high. It will stay in the greenhouse until April.
I gave up on delphiniums a very long time ago. Just slug fodder, and there are other plants which give a similar effect which are easier in that regard. It might be worth potting them up and waiting until they're bigger and stronger, before planting out @Johnjoe. I appreciate that it's a bit of a faff to do that, but it's easier to keep them slug free in a pot. If you have to, you can do the 'sitting the pots on a brick or two in a shallow container of water' method. It means the slugs are less likely to get across the 'moat'. You have to be sure there aren't any slugs, or eggs, already in the pots though I do that with lettuce and things like dahlias. It works very well.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think I'll raise the pot over some bricks I have, might help avid them going the way of last years Lupins which as looking very promising until the slugs got those too
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It might be worth potting them up and waiting until they're bigger and stronger, before planting out @Johnjoe. I appreciate that it's a bit of a faff to do that, but it's easier to keep them slug free in a pot. If you have to, you can do the 'sitting the pots on a brick or two in a shallow container of water' method. It means the slugs are less likely to get across the 'moat'. You have to be sure there aren't any slugs, or eggs, already in the pots though
I do that with lettuce and things like dahlias. It works very well.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...