Re: Very off topic: gardening: specifically nasturshims

[Guest guest]

Same thing exactly,here, Jeani....new raised bed, great soil and

amendments....lots of nasturtiom leaves!

Ah well....hopefully the moonflowers witl like it better than the

nasturtioms!

Gayle

Very off topic: gardening: specifically nasturshims

> After building up our topsoil with organic nutrients, and planting

> nasturshims thinking wow these nasturshims will be so well nourished,

> they will bloom like crazy! After reading online that they like very

> poor soil, we have LOTS of BEAUTIFUL leaves, and NO flowers! Does

> anyone have any ideas as to how I can " degrade " the soil, and get some

> flowers from my well fed leaves? Jeani

[Guest guest]

I don't know how to make them bloom, but I do know that they are very yummy! 

The leaves (and blooms, but that's not a problem here....   ) are spicy, kind

of like radishes.  So if they don't bloom (and even if they do), maybe you can

add them to your salad! 

Blessings,

Tabitha

[Guest guest]

I've heard that nasturtiums are good for companion planting in one's

garden because they lure away the garden pests from veggies.

Steering this conversation back to kombucha...wonder how they'd taste

as a kombucha flavoring. I've seen a recipe for nasturtium vinegar on

the Internet.

-Patty

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> I do know that they are very yummy!  The leaves (and blooms...) are

spicy, kind of like radishes.

[Guest guest]

Nasturtiums did quite well in nothing but DG in CA had to keep them shaded

out there. Bloomed like crazy. Not tried them here.

zoe

G wrote

> Same thing exactly,here, Jeani....new raised bed, great soil and

> amendments....lots of nasturtiom leaves!

> Ah well....hopefully the moonflowers witl like it better than the

> nasturtioms!

> Gayle

> Very off topic: gardening: specifically nasturshims

>> After building up our topsoil with organic nutrients, and planting

>> nasturshims thinking wow these nasturshims will be so well nourished,

>> they will bloom like crazy! After reading online that they like very

>> poor soil, we have LOTS of BEAUTIFUL leaves, and NO flowers! Does

>> anyone have any ideas as to how I can " degrade " the soil, and get some

>> flowers from my well fed leaves? Jeani

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>

[Guest guest]

Even if a flower is said to take to poor soil that doesn't mean that

they will languish in healthy soil.

Most likely you are high in nitrogen which can make a plant more leafy

than flowery.

If you stress the plant it may flower for you, stress to a plan means

keeping it on the dry side, (as in: dry until you see a slight wilt

before watering) and no fertilizer. After you dried them out a little

then return to a weekly watering schedule.

Also Nasturtiums need full sun to bloom best.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Jeani

<countryrose_ak@...> wrote:

> Does

> anyone have any ideas as to how I can " degrade " the soil, and get some

> flowers from my well fed leaves? Jeani

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It's not easy being a locavore

[Guest guest]

Last time I had any 1st hand knowledge of them was about 50+ years ago

and they flowered like mad. In retrospect they probably were on poorish

soil. The eatability runs to the seeds/berries as well, apparently you

can pickle them, Gran used to call them " Poor man's capers "

I've just joined a gardening group, so if you get no joy I can throw it

at them. Meantime, even if you can't impoverish the soil what about

something like a tomato fertiliser to promote flowers?

(This is the sort of O.T. thing I visualised with the concept of " ABALTAT "

.

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Any advance on 11?

Patty T wrote:

> I've heard that nasturtiums are good for companion planting in one's

> garden because they lure away the garden pests from veggies.

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> -Patty

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>> I do know that they are very yummy! The leaves (and blooms...) are spicy,

kind of like radishes.

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