Showing posts with label berries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label berries. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Berries and Currants!

Blackcurrant
This was also a Sainsbury's buy, bought alongside the Goji Berry plant (pictured behind).  Its not done much except have some exceptionally green leaves and get a tiny bit taller.


Blueberry!  I've started adding coffee grounds to the soil because I read it helps with acidity, and the blueberry is loving it so far.


I've also noticed these buds appear in just the last few days.

Redcurrant

Strawberries

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Goji Berry


I bought this as an itty bitty Goji plant around a year old from Sainsbury's.  I was impressed that they even stocked them!  Well, since my attempts to grow them from seed were unsuccessful this year I thought, "Why not?" even though I find it much more rewarding to eat from something I grew myself entirely from seed.

This has come along really well, it seemed to barely do anything over the summer, and now that Autumn has hit, it has shot side branches out all over the place AND its also grown super tall, way past the 1m canes I have for supports.  Hoping for some flowers and berries next year from this one.

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

What are these??



So, I planted a ton of seeds in February and many of them never germinated.  I recycled that old soil when I bought some dormant berry bushes, and so now I have some plants which eventually germinated alongside the berry bushes and I have no idea what they are.  Please let me know if you have any idea what these are!!


So this one is pretty small and weak seeming, but the stem is actually kind of woody, and the flowers are small and white like the picture below:



There's also this which was hiding beneath the blueberry plant.  On close inspection it looks like there are tiny berries growing on it, but there's been no flowers, so I'm not sure if that's what they are.


The stem is on its way to becoming woody, but its still very green, and since I moved this into its own pot away from the blueberry it seems to be suffering, so I'm thinking it maybe needs a more acidic approach to the soil, as I've not been treating it that way.

Does anyone have any ideas what either of these plants are and any growth tips?