Specialty Gardening: Cottage Garden Seed Swap & Chat #13, 1 by Meredith79

Meredith79 wrote:
Here is my red flowers container and after reading the question about 4' oclocks I had to get the pot with 4 o'clocks in it. I saved my tubers that I grew from seed last year. I think you can do a pot with the tubers as long as it is quite large. The first year I tried them I did a pot with a large tuber I got for $3 at walmart. It worked out well. Here they are in my journal http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/showimage.php?eid=11294... (I actually planted the ones I grew from seed that year around the tuber and they didn't get more than a couple blooms off before the frost.) The only problem was the flowers were yellow and not the color they showed on the package. So last year I grew the red glow from seed and figured I give storing the tubers a go. It was really easy, I just dug them up cut off the old roots and let them dry on the counter on paper plates. Then I put them in a brown lunch bag and stuck in a cabinet in my garage which stays on the cool side. 2 years in a row I grew them from seed and both times the ones from seed stayed small and only put out a few blooms about 2 weeks before frost zapped them. So that's why I tried it this way. The plants in the pic are already the same size as the ones I grew from seed were in Sept. I am also trying them in full sun because of how few flowers I've gotten in a part sun location. Where they are in a pot I will be able to move them if they seem unhappy.