Specialty Gardening: Join Us! Seed Swap Seed Starting & Conversation #3, 1 by Lala_Jane

Lala_Jane wrote:
(I caved on the dahlias). :-P

Stokes says "GREENHOUSE: Sow Feb. 15th - Apr. 15th for May sales and July blooms." Although I don't have my GH in place, I hope to have it here within the next couple of weeks. So hopefully I'll be OK with starting them now.

Hello! You all have been very busy! It took me over an hour to catch up on everyone's plantings, babies, weather, and general comings and goings. I love all the pictures....both animal and vegetable.

I've been planting like a fool myself have already extended my space....and yet I continue to plant. I set out 20 WS containers yesterday, but I'm trying something different this year. I'm doing smaller batches in clear Solo cups with baggies on the top. Hopefully with this method I'll still get a good variety but won't have to make a career out of planting them this spring. I am so bad about thinning. If a seedling shows a desire to live by peeking it's lil head above the ground, I can never bring myself to cull it out. I've decided the best way around that is just to plant fewer seeds. (Now watch me have poor germination this year and end up with only one of everything.) LOL!

I suffered a tragic planting accident the other day. I was trying to make more space on the mat and had trays scattered everywhere. I stumbled over one of them upsetting it in the process. In trying to catch myself I upset the 2nd one. Then the 3rd. Then the 4th. It was like a bad Lucy episode being shown in slow motion. Do I even need to try and describe my level of P-O'dness? I think not.

So I scooped everything up and put it into a commutinty tray and am now trying to figure out what's what. I've got an ID on every seedling but one. Suzy..... ...oh Suzy? Have you grown the Green Gold from seed? My mystery plant is either that or a strong infestation of weeds (Which is not entirely impossible. I have got THE WORST bag of Miracle grow I have ever had the misforture to purchase. It's hard as a rock and filled with clumps of clay, sticks and other debris and my PO level on that is nothing to sneeze at either.) In any case, if you have grown it from seed do you remember what it looked like? Could these tall grass-looking seedlings be the bupleurum?