I am growing Salad Burnet! Who knew? I thought it was something else.

The first wildflowers seed mix had some and they were prolific(!) in the Other Garden and were the most lovely plant. I took the seeds and sowed them in a drawer and they came up (I think that’s them). Lessons

1 Label stuff

2 If you cut SB back, it comes again. The flowers are really beautiful.

3. Apparently you can use it in salad and it tastes of cucumber according to the Woodland Trust

4. I potted it on 27th December!. The drawer I planted them in was quite shallow and the roots were very widely spread. If you scooped straight down with a spoon, that still didn’t get them. Maybe this is true of a lot of wild plants that grow in places that aren’t very rich – they spread a lot.

QUESTION: how will they adapt to better soil? The soil in the Other Garden is very poor because it’s under a tree and no-one has fed it for decades. How will they do in my richer garden? Maybe plant some in pots and some in old crap soil

6, QUESTION: how good is the soil in MY garden? (and does it matter/ is it better if it’s not great?)

January 2021

Here they are in the greenhouse…