Propagation: Indoor seed starting - your successes and failures , 1 by slopesower

slopesower wrote:
evelyn-We live in the San Bernardino Mountains at an elevation of about 5700 feet. Some of our community goes as high as 6200 feet. We live in a pine and oak forest with snowfall into May and then we get warm summers.

As to success and failures-I had really good luck inside with both veggies and flowers. My petunias, violas, geraniums. and coleus are big, green, and ready to plant out. I even have two blooms on my snapdragons.

Two flowers that I have struggled with are cleome and astilbe and I even have tiny sprouts on those. The only ones that show no signs of life are Black Cohosh and Blue Lace Flower. I've never tried them before.

I'm also really happy with the germination of my alpine strawberries.
I want to plant!!!