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23-06-19, 07:10 AM
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Re: Smile of the day - What is yours?
We've got self seeded poppies around our garden. Huge plants. They flowered yesterday.. very suddenly!
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23-06-19, 07:37 AM
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don't get too excited but they may be opium poppies (papaver somniferum). They have a long, dull green leaf. If it is that genus they are legal to grow but illegal to process (duh). Mine just appeared in the front garden and I thought (initially) they were a weird cabbage until they kept on growing upwards. I am unsure why I suspected a cabbage since I hadn't planted any vegetables but growing things is like witchcraft anyway (to me). I suppose this implies that as a witch or wizard I'd be most like Rincewind (for Discworld fans). |
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23-06-19, 12:30 PM
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Re: Smile of the day - What is yours?
Out early this morning for a paddle
 Step one of BPW prep 
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23-06-19, 01:13 PM
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23-06-19, 02:37 PM
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they don't look like opium poppy leaves, they look too "green", too shiny and too fat.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sveine...en/16324090564 you have another mutant.  albeit a pretty one.Once they've flowered the remaining pod will have thousands of seeds which, in theory, you can sow next year. (I'm still waiting). I may have Paraquat fingers. Many years ago I heard some gardening lore but I've been unable to recall the exact expression and cannot find a reference to it... but it basically said if you let a poppy plant go to seed it it will take 7 years of digging to rid yourself of it. edit: finally found the saying only it's for weeds/prolific plants generally not just poppies. "One years seeding makes seven years' weeding." Last edited by Seeker; 23-06-19 at 02:47 PM. |
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23-06-19, 04:20 PM
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23-06-19, 04:22 PM
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