Mum's the Word
29 July 2009 23:38:11
Mum's the Word
Well, my giant chrysanthemums have flowered.
I bought the root stock by mail order back in spring. I potted them up, manured them, watered them copiously, reduced stalks to a max of four per plant, potted them on, fed them with tomato food, removed side shoots, staked them, cosseted them in the greenhouse and now they have finally flowered for me.
The moral of this story is - you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
In my amateur ignorance I did not know what to look out for when buying root stock and I have bought the wrong thing.
They are okay, as plants go, but do not deserve the kind of preferential treatment they have received. I will plant them in the garden forthwith - enough with the molly coddling. We live we learn.