Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #9, 0 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
Robin, the ladder/fountain is a stroke of genius. On your cup plants, just put a little net bag over the heads when they are about to go to seed. If you want them to be pretty, you can get the ones they use for weddings to put the rice or bird seed in. Then the finches can have theirs and you can save some for yourself.

tabasco I don't have nearly a BIG enough garden. I have no idea where I'm going to fit all this stuff. I'm doing a lot in containers. there were just so many new plants from the seed swaps that I wanted to try. and the perennials take 2 years, so I couldn't stand to wait until next year to try them. some of the slow growers I can leave in pots this year and plant them out next spring, I think.

OK, does anybody know about moss roses? I sowed the seeds in the pic on 3/20 and they germinated in 4 days, which I thought was great since the info I had said 14-21 days. and I had terrific germination. I have tons of tiny seedlings. but that's all. they still don't have any true leaves. It's 11 days and there's no change in them at all. the cotyledons are about 1/16". I'm thinking I should have started them in December?

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