Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Visions of flowers & veggies for 2010, 1 by stormyla

stormyla wrote:
Foxy, You should reserve some of your Poppy seeds and try direct sowing them. You could sew them in the ground now and leave them alone or cover them with soda or milk bottles with the bottoms cut out. The seeds need to be cold. I've had limited success with starting them in spots other than their final destination. Lots of seeds used, and very few survivors.
The plants have to be just the right size and vigor and the location ideal for the transplants to prosper. The ones that did survive, I sowed outside in February in peat pots somewhat sunken into large trough planters full of last year's soil. The ones that survived were sown in the larger peat pots having very little root disturbance on transplanting.

I've never heard of any Goji berries growing in the midatlantic. I wonder if it's cool enough to grow them here. I think they prefer lean rocky soil.