Thursday 6 October 2011

Going to seed

Since I only got three plants out of my pack of 500 shiso seeds, I haven't been picking the leaves off that often as you can't do that much with so few. And now - flowers!



So, I don't know what this means for the leaves, but maybe I'll get some seeds for next year. We'll see!

4 comments:

Princess McSwifferpants said...

Thanks for sharing! I wonder if the seeds you had were too old to germinate properly. Here's hoping you get some viable ones out of these plants!

Arline Lyons said...

That was what otouto's gf said - it's not very common here, so they may have been old. Hers did much better though, she even made shiso pesto!

wakamufin said...

I can't thank you enough for the seeds. Sincerely hoping that they come back next year. If they do I might try them in a bigger pot. It's lovely stuff and if I decide to try doing tempura again the shiso is first on the list.

Arline Lyons said...

I did manage to get a few of them and chopped them up and put them in an omelette this morning! You could just about taste them.

Will try to pick some up in Japan - at least they should be not old...