This Thanksgiving I spent some time cleaning seeds I grew this year: gold-leaf feverfew, jasmine tobacco, wild tobacco, variegated nicandra, purple morning glory, Ocean Dawn Japanese morning glory, and wild white petunia. Unfortunately, the white petunias didn’t make many flowers this year and so I have very few seeds and will have to try again [...]
Datura outpacing black nightshade
After taking some time to think it over, I went out today and began uprooting black nightshade plants that had grown in places other than where I planted them. For one thing, I don’t want it taking over my entire yard. I have a lot of other herbs out there, and [...]
Today I spent some time getting more plants in. I got all the wild white petunias (Petunia axillaris) into large pots. I grew these two years ago and thought I had plenty of seed to last, but it sold out the first year. Last year I forgot to start it and grew Petunia integrifolia, the [...]