--Nasturtiums tropaeolum majus
Beautiful, bright easy to grow.
I expect you will recognise a nasturtium flower. I have seen them brightening up many a hanging basket, edging garden paths, climbing and rambling in gardens.
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...expect you will recognise a nasturtium flower. I have seen them brightening up many a hanging basket, edging garden paths, climbing and rambling in gardens.
There are many varieties of nasturtiums, they. Are a native of South America and have been in our country for many a year.
Nasturtiums have beautiful bright green round leaves and the flowers are a trumpet or bell like shape. The flower colours are red, or orange, ... ...from you cabbages to the nasturtium leaves.
You could always eat the nasturtium leaves (caterpillar free) in a salad or decorate a dish with the flower.
The leaf tastes peppery spicy I personally do not like it but I have sometimes added it to salad for guests when I am trying to impress. (Mixed reactions)
There are several sites on nasturtiums on the internet with recipes I have not reproduced them as I have not tried ... more
--Nasturtiums tropaeolum majus Beautiful, bright easy to grow.
I expect you will recognise a nasturtium flower. I have seen them brightening up many a hanging basket, edging garden paths, climbing and rambling in gardens.
There are many varieties of nasturtiums, they. Are a native of South America and have been in our country for many a year.
Nasturtiums have beautiful bright green round leaves and the flowers are a trumpet or bell like shape. The flower colours are red, or orange, peach, yellow, gold, cream, or white they are bright cheerful and vibrant.
They grow as a bush plant 12 to 18 inches or a semi trailing plant, trailing 6 or 7 feet or as a trailing plant trailing 10 or 11 feet across the garden, or along walls over trellises and pots. The flowers measure up to about 4 inches across.
They are a very easy annual to grow brilliant for kids. The seed is quite large very easy to handle. When they have finished flowering the seeds are easy to collect and save successfully for sowing next year.
Time for planting the seeds is April. They can be sown where they are to flower or in a seed tray and planted out later into their flowering position. Nasturtiums like it sunny and a moist but well drained soil they will flower late spring/ early summer until autumn There are many varieties of Nasturtiums a bush variety growing 12, 15 inches. Semi trailing variety growing 4 or 5 feet or a trailing variety growing up to 10 feet.
Nasturtiums, not just a pretty face!
If you grow them around your vegetable garden black fly will be attracted to them and not your vegetables also caterpillars of the Large and small white butterfly eat their leaves grow them near your cabbages and transfer any caterpillars from you cabbages to the nasturtium leaves.
You could always eat the nasturtium leaves (caterpillar free) in a salad or decorate a dish with the flower. The leaf tastes peppery spicy I personally do not like it but I have sometimes added it to salad for guests when I am trying to impress. (Mixed reactions) There are several sites on nasturtiums on the internet with recipes I have not reproduced them as I have not tried them, but there is one where the flowers which are bell shaped are stuffed with a cream cheese and herb mix I might give that a try Think I have one or two flowers left in the garden. Thank you for reading. Happy gardening……. Mary
Advantages: easy to grow Disadvantages: attracts caterpillars
...I'm always surprised how expensive nasturtium seeds are in the shops: I've seen them pricedup to £3.90 for 10 seeds.
I'll let you into my secret: I bought one packet of seeds ten years ago - and never purchased another one. Instead, I let my plants produce the seeds.
Every flower, if visited by pollinating insects, will produce about three seeds - unless of course you eat the flower first. Since each plant produces dozens or hundreds of flowers ... ...So if you collect your nasturtium seeds, you can also provide your friends and neighbours with seed.
If you sow your own-harvest seed, you may find that the number of colours and varieties increases every year, because the bees have been visiting other gardens, too. TROUBLE SHOOTING
1. Caterpillars! These are the nasturtium's enemies. It's the pretty cabbage white butterflies that lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves. The eggs hatch caterpillars, ...
queen_rain 05.01.2005
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Advantages: Tasty, attractive, beneficial to health Disadvantages: none
...if you did loose your nasturtium seeds because of a bad winter the price of a pack of 25 seeds will not break the bank. Prices start from £1 upwards. You can buy them from most garden centres. Planting time. Plant the seeds after the last frost; plant them in the ground or suitable containers as mentioned earlier on. Plant the seeds half an inch down. It does not matter if you have got poor soil, nasturtiums aren't fussy about that. They do prefer ... ...than if placed in shady places. If you have not got a sunny garden the leaves are quite attractive and tasty.
The large roundish leaves have a pepperish taste, not unlike watercress and they give a welcome zing to the salad, or you can use them on sandwiches just as you would use general salad stuff. The trumpet shaped flowers are rather bland in taste but very colourful and make any dish attractive, float a flower on a pale soup or garnish a prawn ...
gill1960 01.08.2003
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Advantages: good in hanging baskets Disadvantages: annual plant so need to get more each year
My father and I like growing Nasturtiums in our hanging baskets, as they trail quite nicely and are extremely brightly coloured, with mainly oranges, reds and yellows. The leaves can be quite large and look rather like a water lily. They can grow quite tall - my father has some soil in old chimney pots and the plants are almost the same height! This year, my dad bought some seeds and just planted them straight into the old soil from the previous ... ...newspaper article that they prefer poorer soil. He therefore was experimenting as to whether they'd sprout and/or survive. They are one of his best plants this year! We bought another set of seeds and planted them in trays, which have then been transplanted into pots and then eventually at the end of May into the hanging baskets (the ones that my brother didn't take for his garden), to see which were best. I believe that the best ones are in the ...
werewolf 17.07.2009
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