Busy Bee, Mel is ranting about a whole packet, not one stray plant. I should imagine most of us have found a stranger in a seed tray, or in compost, once in a while.
Has to be the compost then, cos the little seed trays that went into the propagator were brand new cellophane packed and opened and filled in the kitchen and planted up, so never even saw a garden. Nor did the compost. Funny thing is, I am almost more interested in that one plant than anything else in the garden!
Has to be the compost then BB - at least it was a plant seed and not a lump of wood, glass or worse that others seem to be finding in their compost these days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Crikey! I have picked out woody bits, but compost has been worse in previous years. No glass, but I get enough of that in the paddock soil, and rifle shells, which tells you a lot about the nature lovers round these parts. The first love lies bleeding flower has flopped in the traditional stylee. (You guys are all going to get so sick of me going on about it!!)
Welshonion, I do believe you misread both this post and the original post where she showed us the afore mentioned salad leaves. Sure salad leaves are done far earlier, but they also stated what the packet was supposed to contain which was by far no mention of any brassica's whatsoever, in fact it was all lettuces. So this packet containing nothing but brassica's is not her fault but does in fact lie with the seed company.
Some brassicas are eaten as salad leaves, when they are young. Nowhere does the OP say the seeds were supposed to be all lettuces. Nowhere does she state the contents - by botanical or common name - of the seed packet. She simply said they were mixed. She may find the leaves are now unpalatable, but they will not harm her.
All I can say is my original thought is that the OP has left the salad leaves too long before cropping them.
When you say I misread this post, do you mean your post?
Perhaps Mel will come back and tell us what her thought are now.
No I mean if you refer back to the original post of this labelled 'supposed to be salad...'nutcutlet asks Mel if it lists what is supposed to be in the packet to which she replied 'Yes Nut it does. There's a few: lollos rossa, biondi and black seeded simpson. There's quite a difference between them and mine.' Now maybe she missed the brassica's that were in the packet but those 3 are all lettuce. Thjat is to what I was referring.
Edit: To post something more relevant to the topic, I consitently get plants that are not what they say on the packet, but I usually strike that up to the fact I use poundlands 6 in 1 packets, My yellow pear tomatoes are roma tomatoes, my mustard greens are calabrese and my habenero's were jalapenos.
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Busy Bee, Mel is ranting about a whole packet, not one stray plant. I should imagine most of us have found a stranger in a seed tray, or in compost, once in a while.
Has to be the compost then, cos the little seed trays that went into the propagator were brand new cellophane packed and opened and filled in the kitchen and planted up, so never even saw a garden. Nor did the compost. Funny thing is, I am almost more interested in that one plant than anything else in the garden!
Has to be the compost then BB - at least it was a plant seed and not a lump of wood, glass or worse that others seem to be finding in their compost these days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Crikey! I have picked out woody bits, but compost has been worse in previous years. No glass, but I get enough of that in the paddock soil, and rifle shells, which tells you a lot about the nature lovers round these parts. The first love lies bleeding flower has flopped in the traditional stylee. (You guys are all going to get so sick of me going on about it!!)
Pic?
Yep - tomorrow I will take one!!!
Welshonion, I do believe you misread both this post and the original post where she showed us the afore mentioned salad leaves. Sure salad leaves are done far earlier, but they also stated what the packet was supposed to contain which was by far no mention of any brassica's whatsoever, in fact it was all lettuces. So this packet containing nothing but brassica's is not her fault but does in fact lie with the seed company.
Some brassicas are eaten as salad leaves, when they are young. Nowhere does the OP say the seeds were supposed to be all lettuces. Nowhere does she state the contents - by botanical or common name - of the seed packet. She simply said they were mixed. She may find the leaves are now unpalatable, but they will not harm her.
All I can say is my original thought is that the OP has left the salad leaves too long before cropping them.
When you say I misread this post, do you mean your post?
Perhaps Mel will come back and tell us what her thought are now.
A typical pack of 'Mixed Salad Leaves ' including several brassicas
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/salad-seeds/salad-leaves-speedy-mix/4790TM
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
No I mean if you refer back to the original post of this labelled 'supposed to be salad...'nutcutlet asks Mel if it lists what is supposed to be in the packet to which she replied 'Yes Nut it does. There's a few: lollos rossa, biondi and black seeded simpson. There's quite a difference between them and mine.' Now maybe she missed the brassica's that were in the packet but those 3 are all lettuce. Thjat is to what I was referring.
Edit: To post something more relevant to the topic, I consitently get plants that are not what they say on the packet, but I usually strike that up to the fact I use poundlands 6 in 1 packets, My yellow pear tomatoes are roma tomatoes, my mustard greens are calabrese and my habenero's were jalapenos.