Beginner Gardening: Free Seeds for newbies... A New Bee ginning continued!!, 1 by lycodad

lycodad wrote:
Sorry, it's been a long week - just getting caught up...

Speedie was asking about our "scatter patch" garden. It's a space behind the garage, about 10 X 20' or so, we use as a cut flower space. I tilled it off once just to loosen the soil and even up the area a bit. After that we sort of "tossed at random" any leftover, outdated, or surplus seeds that we had laying around, including a lot of second rate seeds we didn't need to keep. OMG they grew! Tons of marigolds, zinnias, sunflowers, lot of other stuff we didn't even know or familiar with. No further maintenance was intended, we just let it sprawl, weeds and all.

The place had an unkempt "cottage" look to it. We let the kids, grandkids, and neighborhood kids visit it with scizzors for cut flowers within reason (if they asked first). Kind of a fun project for everyone. I wish now that I had taken more pictures to show off or write an article about but wasn't sure how it would work out. Maybe this year will be better.

Al