Cosmos 🌿

 

                 Good morning my friends ! 

Here I am tidying up my Agaves yesterday . I still have a few more to repot , but I wanted to give you an update on my Cosmos seedlings .

I sowed these around the beginning of April .

They came up almost overnight !

     I probably sowed them a bit too thickly , but they were easy to prick out and pot on . 

They grow really fast after potting them on .

In previous years I have pinched them out and by doing this ,they put out side shoots and become sturdier and bushier plants .

Here's one I did earlier , you can see the two new side-shoots .

The other thing I have done is to gently stroke them . This also makes them grow stronger .

What I only recently learned , is that you can prepare the pinched out tops as cuttings ! 

 I didn't quite believe this as they seem so delicate and frail ....but I thought I'd give it a go .....nothing to lose !

I gently stuck them into two pots of compost and put them into this old washing up bowl standing in about a quarter of an inch of water .

 

I sprayed them with a mist and just kept an eye on them over the following week or two .

 I thought they would all pass out and that I'd find them all flopped over , dead .....but no .... 

I kept checking them and yesterday I could see some roots coming out of the bottom of the pot !  Yay !

So I pulled them all out  to have a proper look......wow !  🤩✨🎉🎈🥳

That feeling of being incredibly wealthy ! 🥳🎈🎉✨🤩 I suddenly have twice as many Cosmos plants !  🤩

 ( I wouldn't actually know how that would feel , but it is how I imagine I'd feel )

                             🌿🩷   I'm in love ! 🤍🌿

All potted up !  I will give them a few days to get their roots down into the compost . 

  It's forecast to be warm again over this coming weekend . 

I might plant them out after that .

                                    Very happy me !

Other happy news ......

                                 We have cucumbers !!  😃🌿

                                  Proper long cucumbers !

I have grown Merlin and Carmen this year , I think these long ones are Carmen .

I'm waiting for some string to arrive , so that I can fix up support for them . At the moment they are scrabbling happily around all over the place , but very healthy !

                              That's all fer today folks !

                             🌿🤍Peace and Love 🕊️🌿

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