What Flower seeds are you sowing now

[Ladygardener]

It's great to have such a good and willing little helper Missredhead,

[Missredhead]

Mmm mmm.......sometimes 😀

[Barbara]

I'm so stupid I annoy myself sometimes, I sowed lupin seeds a couple of weeks ago and saw nothing, so I moved the tray outside and started to take some of the compost to top up another tray, and knocked the head off 2 that were just starting to grow.

[Ladygardener]

Aw Barbara, we've all done that.

Some of the Cosmos I sowed the other day are up.

[Tig]

I think that last lot of snow and freezing wind has killed my hellebore seedlings I had two black beauty germinated and 6 mixed doubles, they all look dead.

Sowed melanthus major (9) and ricinus communis gibsonii (4) today.

[Tig]

Soaked in warm water for a couple of hours then sowed dierama atrum (cosmos dissimile)

[Barbara]

I've sowed some sunflower seeds today, they are smallish ones, the flowers not the seeds.   My sweet peas are deaded, I'll sow some more next week.

[Ladygardener]

Hope you have better luck with your SP this time Barbara.

I've got some "Teddy Bear" Sunflower just germinated and now you've reminded me, I'll sow some others over the weekend.

I did sow some "Early Flowering Mix" seeds, I've been sowing these for a few years now and I like the assortment of flowers they produce. I sow them in little pinches and plant the whole cell out together when they're big enough.

[Tig]

Dianthus superbus and sqarrosus sown this morning and on the front bedroom windowsill.

[Ladygardener]

The early flowering mix have started to germinate already in the kitchen so I've moved them to the covered back. Definitely the sunflowers will be sown today.

[Tig]

4 out of 4 ricinus have emerged (from saved seed last year), and there are little green dots in the dianthus pots

[Missredhead]

I resowed some marigolds as the first lot failed, the seeds that I sowed last week (pack dated 2016) have all started to germinate...the first lot were saved from last years flowers...wonder why they didn't germinate

[Ladygardener]

Not sure why they did'nt germinate Missredhead, perhaps they were'nt completely ripe when you harvested them or maybe they were stored too warm... Sometimes things I harvest don't germinate but when they do I breathe a sign of relief.

I was sowing french marigolds yesterday too, the end of an open pk and if they don't germinate I've a new pk that should. Naughty Marietta.

[Barbara]

Re-sown some sweet peas today.

[Missredhead]

None of my sweet peas germinated 😥

[Barbara]

That happened to me a couple of years ago Missredhead, it's soooooo annoying. are you going to try some more?

[Missredhead]

I might..I'll have to buy some though as I have none left...
I was going to put them with the morning glory but as the morning glory all germinated I'm not sure if there's going to be room in the pot for sweet peas too...
When do plant them out?... I remember one year I put them out and they were doing really well and then we got a frost and I lost them all..😥

[Barbara]

The same happened to me Missredhead, they are supposed to be OK down to -10, but mine were ruined, I had them in pots so I don't know if that was the problem, mine aren't going out until the end of the month this time.

[Ladygardener]

Morning Glory I'd likely leave until May Missredhead.

[Missredhead]

Ok thanks...they are getting quite tall though and they will be going in a pot outside the back door...was going to put them out the front but it gets quite breezy out there

[Barbara]

I've sown 12 dahlias and 10 cosmos, some red cabbage too, but they don't count on here.

[Tig]

Better late than never, I've sown zinnia double mixed in the growhouse (along with Swift f1 sweetcorn), tithonia, cosmos ladybird and picottee (6 of each) indoors.

[Missredhead]

I sowed some sun flowers straight into my sons garden with the GDs.....also we did some marigolds too...we'll see if anything comes up...

[Ladygardener]

I've sown some more Sunflower, Tithonia, Tagets, and more Cosmos.

[Tig]

Cosmos are up!

[Barbara]

I've sown sweet sultan, cal. poppies, and marigolds, it looks like my cosmos is a no show, I might buy some more seeds tomorrow.

[Tig]

All my ladybird cosmos are up, four of the picottee have germinated and I can see green on the remaining two seeds.

[Barbara]

I've bought and sown some zinnia purple ? and some more cosmos, I've potted on the petunias as well, got a lot of those for my baskets and pots.

[Tig]

Amazed today to spot new shoots appearing in some of the pots of paeonia peregrina, I only sowed them on 26/9/17 - usually it takes two years before they germinate naturally.



I think there is also signs of a shoot in one of the paeonia delavayi pots!

Resown tithonia this morning.

[Ladygardener]

I went ahead and sowed Courgette Black Beauty this morning. It's been a couple of years now since I grew them and fancy giving them another go at the plot this year as I do have room for them.