my latest patch of Rocket have many small transparent patches which in some cases have become complete holes. There are no visible signs of insects on the leaves when looking through a lens of 15x magnification. What is this and are the leaves still OK to eat as a salad?
I also have aquilegias,foxgloves,honesty but the most prolific is the forget me not, although they look a mess when they finish flowering I have discovered that the Bull Finch loves the seeds and visits every day just to eat the seeds. What a fantastic bird. I have never seen one before I moved to Suffolk.
My very best self-seeders this year have been foxgloves. They seem to have arranged themselves more beautifully than ever, and in a wider range of shades. As for the telephone and blogging... a friend of ours used to say 'Every time I make a phone call, the bath starts running!'
I get self sown morning glories every year ever since I put in the original seeds and I can usually manage to lift some and put them in where I want them, and even to give to my friends.
I took my usual wander round the garden this morning and found a dozen or so sunflowers popping up that the birds missed out on....as a new garden I'm pretty chuffed hey
Reply to yertiz: this is flee beetle damage. It is common on brassicas seedlings and crops. Yes, you can eat the leaves. I'd prefer eating leaves with a few holes in them than spraying, as I try to grow fruit and veg organically if posible. I wonder how others control flee beetle?
You are sooo right! I had a patch of ground which had nothing in and after years of "trying" to grow hollyhocks, this year to my amazement I now how 6 fantastic yellow ones growing in the space designated for my dahlias! Trouble is now they are there I don't know how to keep them comming every year. Isn't gardening exciting - love it.
Benefits vary greatly in size, Jerusalem artichokes are hard to control if you dislike taking plants out once they have started to grow, holly seems to be spread greatly by birds, hellebores often are stronger than ones I deliberately plant, and salads benefit greatly from lamb's lettuce which seems impossible to control.
I found what could be a rosemary beetle the other day, but it looked all black with no stripes. Could it be something beneficial? (Hopeful!) I love self-seeding, particularly Welsh poppies, sweet williams and forgetmenots - had a white forgetmenot this year, first time ever.
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What is this and are the leaves still OK to eat as a salad?
I love self-seeding, particularly Welsh poppies, sweet williams and forgetmenots - had a white forgetmenot this year, first time ever.