If it's any consolation, we all do it!

[tim]

Thought that the row of radishes was looking a bit strange, but let them get on with it.
Today, they looked more like brassica.

Checked in my diary & the only things unaccounted for were Purple Sprouting!!
Very pleased to find them.

[tim]

[philcooper]

Tim,

That could go in the "what is it" section of your book

Phil

[Andy H]

Ha Ha Ha so I`m not the only one :D

people keep walking past and asking whats that???
I reply, You`ll have to ask becky

They ask her and she says you`ll have to ask Andy :-X

Agter it has gone round a couple of times they realise that we don`t know, can`t remember or we give them multiple choice options ;D

Realising that it is too much like being at scholl, most of them are content to wait and see...

Sometimes we just smile and say it`s a surprise ;)

Don`t blame me, its er fault! she handed me a bucket of mixed and said plant, I just looked at heights etc and put short at front, forgot to label and prob still got it wrong :-[

[Doris_Pinks]

I carefully planted all my various squash, sticking the labels in next to them as you do, so you will know what they will become, didn't bother to write it down in my book, and..............................something, (I suspect a bird) has yanked them all out and thrown them around. >:(    So now I am also on wait n see!

[Mrs Ava]

No matter what pen or pencil I use, I always end up with a selection of blank labels, so quite often it is a suck it and see situation!

[aquilegia]

I like surprises!

[Bluejane]

Managed to cut through several labels when edging grass path round the beds - now I don't know which variety of peas are in which rows. And when she was a puppy (not long ago), the dog decided she'd enjoy pulling the labels out of the ground and running off with them - being charitable, I think she was trying to make our lives more interesting! Or just chaotic, maybe ...

[Rosa_Mundi]

and..............................something, (I suspect a bird) has yanked them all out and thrown them around. >:(    So now I am also on wait n see!

I bet it's a blackbird - I have a few youngsters around who are currently trying to dig their way to Australia. In the process, one has pulled up several labels, plus pea plants, and left them for me to find shrivelled up the next day. Sigh.
Fortunately, I planted excess...

[Linda]

I once caught a neighbours 5 yr old carefully swapping all my labels round - couldn't help but laugh! ;D

As I've become more experienced, I always think - oh, I'll remember that - ha - fat chance, why can't I remember that I always forget?

Linda

[redimp]

No matter what pen or pencil I use, I always end up with a selection of blank labels, so quite often it is a suck it and see situation!

I have a tray of cabbage/purple sprouting broccoli/romanescu broccoli/sprouts that has a blank label.

[Svea]

I have a tray of cabbage/purple sprouting broccoli/romanescu broccoli/sprouts that has a blank label.

i would suggest planting that into your brassica bed

;D

[redimp]

Yes - but at what spacing  :D

[tim]

The leaves are a give-away - they're all diferent.

Broccoli are frilly-edged, cabbage are more even-edged & brussels have a badminton racket shape.

[redimp]

On that basis I think they are Brussels - oh goody!! Thanks once again Tim.

[moonbells]

I failed once again to get any purple sprouting broccoli this year - slugs yet again got them in the cold frame.

I managed to discover a fellow plotholder with spares, so duly planted them up.

Couple of days later he popped round and said that now he was looking at them, he wasn't sure if the tray he gave me were PSB, calabrese or cauliflowers!!!!!  ::)

So I too have surprise brassicas (in an enormous cage, having assumed PSB)!

(Certainly makes for an interesting wait...  ;D ;D )

moonbells

[djbrenton]

Mine is tomatoes, Costuluto Fiorentino cropping up where I'd carefully raised Principe Borghese and San Marzano Redorta.

[tim]

How do you know it's Costuluto, dj??

[NattyEm]

This is very comforting.  I too had a selection of cabbages and PSB that I really couldn't tell apart.  So they'll all be a suprise.  I forgot to label the squash plants too.  Another suprise.

Also I need a book with what they all look like at little plant stage, you know those first few leaves you aren't sure about when you're weeding.  I was weeding the jungle that was meant to be a variety of brassica things and haven't been left with a lot!  So either they didn't grow or I weeded them all away oops!

[tim]

You can't tell much from any first leaves.
The first true leaves do give an indication.

Typical brassica seedlings (but they could be radishes etc!!) are -

[NattyEm]

ah no I meant true leaves not seed leaves :)

I need 1 pic first true leaves, one pic small plant, one pic grown plant. 

Svea had a great idea of each time sow something direct sow one in a pot to keep an eye on!