Beginner Gardening: Lupines, 1 by sm4657

sm4657 wrote:
Hi Ann.......

I have only started gardening 3-4 yrs. ago, and one of my first winter-sowed seeds were Lupines....and now I have them all over my garden (luckily in the spaces I want them to grow!). I love them. The reason they self sow is that when I started my garden site, the bed was well tilled and black dirt plus lots and lots of composted horse manure with a little wood bedding, ( we raise quarter horses, so I compost a lot of manure) about 10-12 inches deep was all tilled in before I planted anything, and I don't dead head them.

They are watered at least once a week along with my other plants (roses, peonies, daylilies, clemantis, etc.). I live right in the middle of Iowa, zone 5.

Here's a picture of them:

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