Poor little sucker, how will it learn? When it is climbing, which way to turn?

[venta]

I see. It seems that a side effect of putting plants on a balcony is that they grow away from the building and towards the sun. Can't blame 'em, really.

So, all the seedlings in West Window Box are now growing at an angle of approximately 45°. It occurs to me that I could turn the window box round every few days, thus on average they will grow approximately upright and make best use of their space. Or maybe they'll just wear themselves out leaning backwards and forwards.

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Edit Can't edit polls. The above should, of course, say "leaning". Not "leavening". Seedlings make terrible bread.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't mind eating wonky veg - I was just concerned that if they all crowded over to one side of the pot they'd have less room for growing.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'd say wait until they've established themselves a bit, then turn it - you don't want to do it when they're really little as even moving the soil a little bit in the process can damage their roots.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. I hadn't realised they were quite that fragile.

Probably shouldn't have dumped East Window Box on the floor this morning in order to use the support bracket as a base to screw a vice to while bodging a plumbing repair... :(

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

They might not be, and it depends on the plants. But since I'm not very greenfingered and pretty much kill plants as soon as I look at them, I tend to err on the side of caution!