Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Seed starting MAF 2014, 2 by typwc

typwc wrote:
Tonight I was putting out the Recycling for pickup and had to clean up a bit of my neighbor's trash that had fallen over. Serendipity! There was a cardboard thing in their trash that looked like it would be perfect for starting seeds. 12 compartments, each one fairly deep.So I was motivated... I sowed Zinnia 'Orange King', Zinnia 'Giant Wine', and Zinnia 'Dahlia Flower Mix', two or 3 seeds each compartment. Regular potting mix because I don't feel like transferring them later. They might get a little leggy but who cares, we're talking about zinnias, they're gonna get all flippy floppy anyway when they grow up.
Also sowed Larkspur 'Giant Imperial Mix' which was the one I was talking about that seemed like it was fussy: Sow onto moist soil. Store in fridge for 2 weeks. Keep at 50° in the dark. Hmm... We'll see what happens. I put the container in the back of the fridge, hoping my husband won't find it within the next two weeks. Also hoping that I don't forget about it between now and April 3.

Dahlias are growing up really nicely since they were sown on the 15th. Ageratum too, teensy little things which take forever to take off but they will eventually. Tobaccos... still no sign of life. But they need time.

1. So here's my embarrassingly crude warming shelf. Just an upturned shade with an ikea pendant bulb an inch or so from the bottom of the metal shelf. There's the neat container I pulled out of my neighbors trash with the zinnia seeds hanging out under saran wrap for humidity. The small tubs are the tobaccos, still waiting.

2. Hi Dahlia babies!!!

3. Ageratum sprout in a tofu container under saran wrap. Keepin' it classy, folks!

4. Velvet Mocha Coleus cuttings, a few weeks old, hogging the lights. Gonna get bumped soon, sorry guys! :/


End of dispatch. Over and out!