Beginner Gardening: heat mats and lighting, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Thanks, Tammy. I'd like to be brave enough to go out and take more photos but it's so cold out there and so warm in here. It's so hard to see the downed limbs of trees. It's not the pretty part of winter.

Use half strength MG and water with it (ONLY after they have true leaves) every time you water, which should be infrequent while they're small and more as they grow larger but drenching new plants is NOT a good idea. You do NOT want them wet - damp is fine.

Which sedums are you trying, Tammy? Size at maturity?

The following applies to large sedums of about 8" and taller:

When you have established sedums, just say a year old, allow about 8 to 12" around each of them and then you can plant a wide variety of either annuals (best bet) or perennials around the sedums. As the sedums grow you'll want the extra space so that's why I'd recommend the annuals. If you planted perennials that close to the sedum you'd only have to move them - doubling the work. We gardeners try to avoid double the work - LOL.

Here's disaster - I love this sedum, green and white at the center near the bottom in this photo, but the ajuga is SO aggressive that it would have devoured the sedum if I left it there so I just ripped out the ajuga. Sorry for the fuzzy photo.

At the top of the photo is the 'Angelina' sedum. That grows very fast and even dropped pieces will root. Here they've rooted in between bricks.