Monday 14 December 2009

BOK CHOY MYSTERY

image  Dec 3rd
I planted some tiny, half caterpillar-eaten bok choy seedlings into this wheel creation I found in Hugh's junk heap. In the middle I put a bowl of water for the birds.
image At the same time and into the same mixture, I put some of them into little pots.... they looked like these that I potted up today...
only in individual pots.
image Dec 12th
Those in the funny old wheel look wonderful and in 9 days have become almost big enough to begin to eat.....
image 
(I put the pot next to those in the wheel ... not a very clear photo!)
While those in the  little pots have certainly improved and grown a bit, but they are nowhere near as vigorous. Is this to do with the bowl of water and humidity, or the water regulating the temperature of the soil......  or what?

3 comments:

Maggie said...

I love that bowl Kate, maybe the bok choy loves it's home.

click said...

I think, it has something to do with the birds!!!

Linda said...

I'd be going with volume - small pots dry out quicker, temperature of soil varies more. Larger volume of soil around the roots makes happier plants.

Or maybe they like the Cadmium in the old tyre - or something else leaching out of it int he way of trace elements, as it breaks down.