What Flower seeds are you sowing now

[Ladygardener]

Thanks Jasmine, I'm well pleased. I'm not sure if I should harden them off and plant them outside to their fate overwinter or keep them in the mini greenhouse. I left my mature delphs outside last winter and they came through ok.

[Jasmine]

I'm not sure either Delphs can be quite resiliant, mine get so badly munched by slugs sometimes that there is nothing left of them and then they pop back up. I even dug one up this year in despair and while it was sitting in a heap it started sprouting again...so I replanted it! But mine are several years old now.
I suppose you could try some and some or hopefully someone else will have a more definite answer.

[Jonah]

Aug 3, 2008 20:02:59 GMT Chuckles said:

Aug 3, 2008 19:05:26 GMT grannyjanny said:

I bought some aquilegia chocolate soldier today. It says on the
pack to sow september. Has anyone grown this one before. It's a lovely little plant. I actually went to get black pansy seeds. I seem to have a thing for dark flowers.
Janet.

Mmmm I sowed them last Sept and had 100% failure, this variety is apparantely renowned for being difficult. Anyhow I tried again in Feb and from about 12 seeds 6 germinated but I only managed to keep 2 going they are now in 4" pots and as they were hard to get this far I won't be planting them out until next year now when they should be really good strong plants. I reckon Canarycreeper has tried them too with similar results to me.

Maybe someone else may have the secret to them Grannyjanny, good luck

Try my way.
Sow them in the spring, nurture them [along with lots of other aquilegia] then panic at the end of summer when you don't think you can keep 'em going through the winter' Chuck them in the garden, not knowing what you are putting where [as you have lost all the lables] , and forget about them. Then the next year, get all excited when you think the corydalis you had lost is back, and then realise that it is your teeny weeny chocolate soldiers bursting into life!
Not much help at all, I know, but it just goes to show that they might be tougher than we think, if I can keep them alive!
I reckon a bit less mollycoddling than we think and they might surprise us! I'd try them in a coldframe, but then again, I haven't a clue what I'm doing! ;D
Good luck with them, they really are beautiful. I actually bought more seed this year as I didn't think any of them had taken

[Ladygardener]

sowed some 12 week stock yesterday. popped them into the mini greenhouse.Planted out the pansy/or viola seedlings into the tidied borders.

[Amo]

Hmmm Delphs. It has been said that the first year you put them in the soil you should remove all the flower spikes so the plant puts all it's energy into the root which should then be strong enough to withstand most attacks. Providing you give the new emerging shoots a little help I'm sure. Well I tried it with mine this year, only time will tell if the root are now STRONG!!

With your babbies I'd be inclined to pot them up individually and put them somewhere sheltered and where you can keep the slug/snail prevention going. By next year they will be a better size to release into the garden and deprive of the flower spikes. ( ) Well that's what I'd do if they were mine but someone else might treat them differently.

Anyone???

[Ladygardener]

Thanks for your input Jonah. I think maybe I'll take your advice and pot them up and give them a bit of protection over the winter months. If nothing else at least I may be able to stop them drowning before they learn how to swim. ;D
I planted out the lavender plants into the borders, they are now a good size, I sowed them in spring this year. They're much bushier than the cuttings I'd taken which was the only way I ever propagated them before.

[Chuckles]

I've given up sowing in trays LNG and sow in individual pots/cells now, much easier IMO not so fiddly when it comes to potting on. When my Delphs were about the same size as yours I carefully potted them into 3" pots and sheltered them over winter. I sometimes just put things under a bench, at the side of the shed, in the GH or poly. Watch the young leaves as they die off though as they can go a bit mouldy and you can lose the young plants, I usually snip them off. The theory on chopping the first flower stems does give the plant chance to grow stronger roots for when they are planted out. Stonger roots produce more shoots but you still need to help with slug and snail attacks.

The Delp seeds I sowed last August are looking good and healthy, they are currently in 5" pots and will be planted out in spring.

[Ladygardener]

Thanks a lot Chuckles, I've come back from being away for the past week and I'm amazed how much they've grown. I've taken them out of the mini greenhouse to start hardening them off. I have them on the already overcrowded window ledge. I'll get them potted up at the weekend, I'm working until then and won't get a chance I don't think.

[Dutchy]

Gosh LNG. I hope your baby delph do well.
I have tried them in my garden, not enough sunshine and plenty of slugs.
The test at MssK also saw them munched and deceised so they are off the list once more.
I don't know what I could possibly do to keep them going.

I sowed Aurac in the open and Love in a mist yesterday.
I'll see if they show themself nex year.

[Ladygardener]

Well I'm keeping my fingers crossed Dutchy. Good luck with your little seeds. I really like love in a mist but never have much success with them. I think I got 1 out of a whole packet last year. It's funny how some things do well one year and not another.

[Tig]

I have sown half of the dierama in a pot outside today. I found some asiatic lily seeds when tidying up, and I have put them in damp kitchen paper inside a plastic bag - apparently they should show signs of germinating within 12 days - I am also trying this method with some geranium seeds, they are supposed to show in 4 days, so I should soon know if it is a success!

x Tig

[Missredhead]

Apart from the sweet peas I have started some lupins that Wee sent me. They are starting to sprout

[Jasmine]

How did your foxgloves get on MRH - mine have not been a success at all. The little seedlings I did have all disappeared - presumably something to do with slugs. I am going to try again in spring.

[Missredhead]

I'll check tomorrow.....and let you know.

[Chuckles]

I really need to look at what seeds I've got or I'm going to be sooooo behind

[Missredhead]

I have lots Chuckles but they all say sow Feb-April........I'm not very patient

[Ladygardener]

Well done getting the lupins to germinate MRH.

this is a few of the stock 10 week mixed from Tig sowed 23/10/08 starting to germinate.

[Ladygardener]

These are a lovely pink phlox, the seeds fell into my pocket after a walk in the park back in sept. ;D

[Rosefriend]

I planted some pansy seeds a couple of days ago - we don't have them as summer bedding plants here but have then for Easter decorations and in the autumn.

With luck they will be ready for Easter next year.

RF

[Cheerypeabrain]

Sowing seeds has to be one of my favourite things to do...makes me feel like a proper gardener! I'm always full of optimism and excitement.....good luck with your pansies RF ;D

[Missredhead]

;D

[Missredhead]

Nov 7, 2008 20:24:43 GMT Jasmine said:

How did your foxgloves get on MRH - mine have not been a success at all. The little seedlings I did have all disappeared - presumably something to do with slugs. I am going to try again in spring.

Some of those foxgloves Jas...the first two pics are ones in pots




and this is one of the ones planted straight into the ground

[Cheerypeabrain]

Lovely.... ;D

[Ladygardener]

I thought I'd ressurect this thread as today I've sown some anthirranium (sp). The seeds were saved from my daughters neighbours last year's flowers. I've got them in pots in a non heated propagator and set them into a polystyrene box I found yesterday. I will use it as makeshift cold frame.

[Rosefriend]

I have sown a few things already.

Black Velvet Geranium Series from T & M - all germinated.
Mimosa
Cape Gooseberries - thanks Cheery

and after failing miserably last year I have once again tried:-

Cephalaphora
Collinsia Greenii
Abutilon
Knautia Macedonia


RF

[Cheerypeabrain]

Sown my first seed of 2009 today

Musa sikkimensis. 4 seeds in JI seed compost. 4" pot in heated propagator. I really ought to venture out into the shed to unearth my tin of cheshunt compound....sigh...

[snowowl]

I will be sowing
Marigold -saved seeds from last year
Poppy-burgundy thanks LNG
Blue campanula-seeds from last year.
Asters- pastel mix this is my second go at these i didnt do well with them last year at all.
Sunflower-Double shine
And i am looking for some cosmos seeds in the GC that are a smaller version of the ones i grew last year.

[Ladygardener]

Today I sowed 7 Eryngium Alpinium Superbum very kindly given to me by Tig. ;D I love these plants and do so hope to get them to germinate for me. They're in multipurpose compost in an old plastic strawberry container with the lid on and sitting out the covered back where the onions are.

[Tig]

Oooh good luck lng - I'll sow some tomorrow so we can compare notes

x Tig

[Ladygardener]

Thanks Tig,that's great you are sowing some too I love to have someone else sowing with me.