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".
We have had quite a few over the past month or so. I planted lots of crocus and spring flowering bulbs and I had some winter erysmium to keep them busy. They have been loving the comfrey. Ive been reminded i need to leave some water out for them. I'm sure they'll be very happy with your borage!
There's still time. I spotted my first cinnabar moth if the year thr other day.
out_of_step said:You dark horse
Wtf! Debbie has come in as an outsider! You dark horse. I think that's a stock image off the tinterweb!
We have an awfully worrying dearth of bees this year.
By now our lavenders and wildflowers are usually smothered in all types of bees but I actually saw our first honey bee only today and have only seen a couple of buff tailed bees at all this year.
Also, very very few butterflies.
I took this one of ours this evening.
However, these were grown from very small plants that were purchased as the under gardener failed to sow the seeds.
Yes very exciting.....really need some rainfall here though as there hasn't been any for about a month
Ooooh it's exciting isn't it! Mine have come on a treat these past few days. I'm hoping they'll grow tall to shade my lettuces from the sun
How are your soldiers doing? Rambo looks like he could flower soon.....
Bee nirvana beckons!
The borage beckons! What I lack in stature I make up for with a (potential) bloom! I do find the freely seeded ones are doing better than the transplanted ones. And they are popping up EVERYWHERE.
Damn......booooyyy....that is a mighty fine lookin' beastie that y'all got there !
(I hope you like my blended dialect spasm there !)
I also (optimistically) put 5 plants in a single 330 diameter pot.....one of my jobs this weekend to sort that out.
I do love the "strength" of the leaves apparent from the photo. Borage is not to be messed with.
Impressive, sir.
He's still going strong.....and i've named him Rambo :)
No sign of any flowers yet however....
Baby triffids! Mine don't look nearly as healthy. The self seeded ones are doing well though. I'm slightly concerned that you will be cursing me this time next year when they start sprouting up everywhere. I hold no responsibility.
Here's a couple more:
Haha hopefully it won't devour me!
FEEED ME!!
You might have to send them this way!
It's a frigging TRIFFID......RUN JAMIE, RUN ! !
I have a reserve army too....
So have mine and they're looking rather pale and puny by comparison. But It isn't over yet!