Published on 12, July, 2020
....aka Battle Of The Borage
There have been rumblings for the past week or so but I thought now would be as good a time as any to get the show started. Today I sowed between 16 and 20 seeds.
I thought it might be nice for any members who want to join in to sow borage seeds and chat about it. We all know bees and pollinators need a helping hand and this is a lovely plant we can have in our gardens to help. The flowers are pretty star shaped blue, sometimes pink or purple. You can eat the flowers or put in ice cubes and you can use the leaves to make borage fertiliser for the garden.
I thought it might be a nice way to unite online friends by doing something remote in real life.
It does self seed so I take no responsibility if you end up with more next year! The more the merrier. Apologies if you have no outdoor space. Maybe do a bit of guerilla gardening if you can
This post was inspired by Jamie (who I cannot tag for some reason) and Number
So lets help our wildlife!
"No-one can do everything but everyone can do something".
OK.
So I'll co-sponsor this post so that, when no one does anything much, (conceivably apart from Jamie and out_of_step), the desolate loneliness of having no responses to a post, can be shared between us.
I reckon there is a good chance that the MODS will jump in - perhaps in 48 hours or so - with something like "I'm pleased that you are trying to grow Borage together, yet apart, and thought other people might be interested - but they are not - so here are a selection of gardening related helplines for you."
[meanwhile, Number is secretly preparing the side meadow lands whilst a team of crack geneticists are engineering the first Trifid/Borage/Fifi Flowertot hybrid seed, designed to levitate, cure cancer and grow to the moon.]