Impostor!

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » Mar 03, 2007 7:44 pm

Never had a fern randomly sprout in my seedlings before.

barbara · Post by **barbara** » Mar 03, 2007 7:48 pm

Looks like you have yourself a mini garden happening!

Nice bonus.

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Mar 03, 2007 7:54 pm

That's neat!

Alexa

Justaysam · Post by **Justaysam** » Mar 03, 2007 10:07 pm

Gosh, I wish I would get a fern, all I get is green slimey yuck growing on top. It gets all hard and won't let the air get to the soil. I am always taking my little toothpick to the top and kind of cultivating around the seedlings.

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » Mar 04, 2007 3:19 pm

Justaysam wrote:Gosh, I wish I would get a fern, all I get is green slimey yuck growing on top. It gets all hard and won't let the air get to the soil. I am always taking my little toothpick to the top and kind of cultivating around the seedlings.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about the green slime. Here's a closeup of the same flat with the new fern. I have the slime too, as I do every year.

I actually think the stuff keeps the soil nice and moist. (It's algae, I assume?) Here's a pic of the whole flat. It's most certainly not affected badly from the slime!

DBoweMD · Post by **DBoweMD** » Mar 06, 2007 9:53 am

You also have a nice liverwort growing next to the fern.
The lettuce-like one. They seem happy together!

tsneal · Post by **tsneal** » Mar 06, 2007 10:13 am

How neat! Great lookin' babies!

Stephanie

Ginger · Post by **Ginger** » Mar 06, 2007 5:57 pm

Thank Goodness! Dave I thought I was the only one who was seeing the "other" green stuff! Thanks for letting me know what it was

Ginger

HostaDesigner · Post by **HostaDesigner** » Mar 07, 2007 12:24 pm

DBoweMD wrote:You also have a nice liverwort growing next to the fern.
The lettuce-like one. They seem happy together!

So that's what those things are called... A couple of the flats have them in there. Learn something new every day!