Specialty Gardening: I am getting sick of planting these little Ws seedlings!, 0 by toofewanimals

toofewanimals wrote:
Pagan, beautiful picture.

Suzy, I had WS'd 5 containers of various zinnias seeds ... they were all germinating and looking great, then we had that last minute April snow/cold snap. I thought, 'Oh, they will do fine.' Nope, right now I have 3 zinnia's still alive. I'm direct sowing them next year!

The first year I WS'd I started a bizillion containers, and yes, put out huge clumps, broke up the milk jugs clumps in 4 pieces, went real fast after that. Now I start about 5 jugs just for the fun of it. :o)

Also, about those 1" seedlings ... I start many of my annuals in the basement under lights ... I always start toooo early and now I have flowering plants in the basement. Mostly petunias and impatiens. They go through that slow period and then BOOM! they burst forth and in another week or 2 they are flowering. I NEED to start my seeds LATER!

brigidlily, I love sunflowers! This is the first year I won't have any planted (all Killed in the winter sowing freeze). Please show us when that sunflower blooms!

2 summers ago I had 2 leafy plants pop up in the garden ... I just knew they had to be something so I left them. Last year I posted asking what they were ... peonies. YUCK! I hope I'm not affending anyone, but I'm not a big peonies fan. I debated about pulling those windblown/bird dropped @#$% peonies out of my daylily garden, but the gardener in me got the best of me. Well, one of them is going to bloom this year ... let's see if it can change my mind about peonies. Oh, and I just found another one popping up about 5 ft away. :o(

Here are the 2 culprits ... must be 2 different types. Or maybe only one is a peonies? the tall one is the one that is going to bloom.

toofew