My flower field experiment this year has mostly failed, due to the April drought, leading to very stunted plants in most of the field except where I watered consistently.
The result is an OK patch in the middle, but my hope was the whole field would look like that.
The result is an OK patch in the middle, but my hope was the whole field would look like that.
This is what the good part looks like. Even here the flowers are a tad stunted, and the goal was poppies, chamomile, and bachelors buttons for a display of red white and blue. The bachelors buttons (some say cornflower) did the best, and they are coming up elsewhere too.
The chamomile on the other hand are about 4 inches high with puny little flowers, and very few poppies (compared to the millions planted) took off. Some poppies are just a few inches high also.
CERTAIN CHICKENS may be responsible for some areas where nothing came up at all
CERTAIN CHICKENS may be responsible for some areas where nothing came up at all
On the other hand I tossed a few poppy and California poppy seeds into the voids and open spaces left by wall and patio construction. These ones seemed to have right conditions to keep water in morning and get sun during day. They make even half built patio look nice.
how it started / how its going
so much more to do
so much more to do
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