Winter Sowing 2010 What's Sprouting #2

Thanks Teresa! I will have to go home and open the lids. The food containers are the only that seem to have an excessive moisture problem. All of the jugs look okay.

Cosmos are very prolific (in my garden anyway) self-seeding annuals. I planted some 4 years ago and have never had to plant anymore again. LOL (Not that I wanted them for all these successive years...)

LOL - Stephanie.. i know what you mean. there are some plants I almost regret planting the first time.

Oh how I know about regarding planting some plants....

yesterday I spend out getting started cleaning up the beds and came across the new seedlings from this very very very very (yes I meant to say all of those very) invasive plant. It is beautiful but I don't want my own flower bed filled with them... wish I had full sun in a fence section of the back yard and I would plant them back there for some beautification....LOL

Janet

I have a lot more sprouts coming! Here's a couple of my sprouts. They're not chia pets yet but it's coming. Here's the delphs blue fountain mix and the ground round pacific mix.

Anita -- just watch those container when it starts to get warm. with them being so shallow, they will dry out quick in the heat. I had that problem one year.

I jsut wnet out and took inventory of what has germinated. got a few more.

Janet, what were the plants that were so VERY invasive? I'll tell you the one I had the problem with was Sweet Woodruff. I love that plant but it took over my perennial bed even to climbing my rose bushes. I used 'Roundup on it several times but it was into things like my roses where I couldn't use the RU and so it is still there. Also have to say RU didn't even kill it on the ground where I could hit it good. LOL, and it looked so pretty when I saw it in the plants at Walmart Saturday.

Uh-oh, just took this pic yesterday of Sweet Woodruff coming back from last year, just had a small start then and it's easily quadrupled in size. Should I rip it up and nip it in the bud?

Shoot, forgot to attach the pic.....

I have even more sprouts. This picture of the Shirley Double Poppy Mix.

Way to go, Anita.

I am so bummed.. went to check on my poppies I WS'ed last year... a bunch did not return this year

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glad I did more this year

I have even more sprouts. This picture of the Shirley Double Poppy Mix. So far my containers are staying too wet. Any suggestions?

can you shelter them from the rain?

If you're having to water (like I am) use a few of those open-weave flats, turn them upside down and set your jugs on top of them. That's what I did early on since some of my jugs didn't drain well. Course that hasn't been a problem the last week. Now they can't get enough water.

I have the same problem Anita. Yes, I have sheltered mine from the rain, and then when the sun shines I put them up on the table. Within an hour it is pouring down rain so I run out and put them back under the table. They are still really wet.

I do not know how these are ever going to sprout. It is below freezing almost every night and only gets as high as mid 50s once in a while. By the time it warms up it is going to be ready for fall.

Just got thru yelling at the weatherman on TV. Wonder if that will help.

FOV, just wait until the 3rd year of that Sweet Woodruff. Remember the 3rd year they are suppose to leap? Well thaqt stuff will be leaps and bounds. Maybe you could put a wall around it somehow. Don't know tho since mine climbs too.

It's smack dab in the middle of one of my beds. I think a telephone pole, far from the gardens, is calling its name.

Well, if you decide to get rid of it somewhere and are successful, let me know how you did it. I really do like it. Especially it smells nice. But enough is enough. Some is too much. LOL

I would love to try a start or two with roots, for postage, because nothing is invasive in Las Vegas.

Sent you a D-mail, Sharon.

Here are some of my new babies, Nicotiana, I believe

Looking good Lynn.

Guess FOV got you covered Sharon?

Jeanette

there are both annual & perennial poppies

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the perfume deep purple did not have a scent for me last year

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FOV, thank you. Yes Jeanette, I am good. We do not have much winter here. I take my seed and throw them in the garden and then thin where I do not want them. I also have a holding garden, I start seed in and then transfer them where I want them when they are large enough. Do the same with plants I get in the mail that are so very small. I put them in the holding garden and let them mature, then plant them in the landscape. Took me about three years of lost mail order plants before I figured that one out.

OH .. so the "Oriental" poppies tend to be perennials??
I dont think i have any.

think some of the Iceland ones are as well.. but not sure

My neighbor had some oriental poppies in her front planter box. I would go over daily and dead head the spent flowers. I let them dry in the garage. I threw them in one vacant bed about a week ago. It will be interesting if they germinate and grow. I did the same think last year with Columbine at Lowes. I picked off the spent dried blooms and came home and spread the seed. They did germinate.

oh good heavens.. you mean someone actually steals seeds??????... OH I would NEVER DO THAT... :::wink wink::::

grrrrrrrrr - we've having a bit of hail. I have a few uncovered.... hope they fair OK.

I DO NOT STEAL SEEDS, I dead head plants. Is the FBI on to us?

Oooooooooo, i love dead heading plants. great way to get new plants.

I would love to 'help out' Lowe's too. But you didn't hear it from me............. :)

I've WS'd Shrley poppies also, but only 5-6 days ago. glad to hear they work.

Answering above question, I WS'd tomatoes, heirloomseeds from a small grower/collector, on Feb.25th. So far I have White Oxheart, Peach Sutton, and Mortgage Lifter popping up. Got some Burpee's Big Boy from Wintersown and they are also starting. I'm SURE out frost/cold isnt done and will be interested in seeing how they do with those drops in temp.

I've just been covering, not bringing in, on cold nights. So far they are doing fine with this. Biggest issue for me is that I am home at the right times to cover, uncover, water and/or set in water trays.

Makes sense to me that the heirlooms would do better since they still re-seed in these parts in a regular garden setting. their biological clock hasn't been re-set by scientific 'progress' for maket value cardboard sturdiness and stamina, and consistency in germination times which would certainly be an asset to a commercial grower.

My friend's husband, before he retired, owned a seed company whose primary client was Campbell's. I never throught about this before but it is a huge business making sure your tomato seeds, as a grower, turn into tomatos that enable Campbells tomato soup to taste the same as when we were kids. The instruments they use to analyze tomatoes are similar to drug-testing-chemical analysis of the amounts of this and that, in the tomatoes (sugar, carbs etc) PLUS not easily bruised or fast-ripening. I don't think seeds that engineered would be good winter-sowing candidates.

Looking at it from that angle I can certainly understand the history of hybrids, and the loss of 'real' tomatoes in the US economy.

"pologize, for a bit off track. I need to go to bed! LOL!

Teresa, I WSed some oriental poppies. I will check my stash tomorrow to see if I sowed them all, if not I'd be happy to share. Even if I have to send you some of my plants.

This is my first year wsing. I had my jugs on the east side of my gh. I moved them to the front side and now I have three jugs sprouting. :-)

The weather here in Michigan has been very hot for this time of year. I just watched the weather and it shows that the night temps for the next three nights will get down to the upper 20s. I am afraid it will kill my new sprouts. Should I bring them into my heated gh now or will that throw off the ws process? Or should I cover them like cplgirl suggests? What do you cover them with a blanket or something plastic?

I love eveyones pictures it is nice to see what the seedlings look like for each type of plant.

Thanks for the help eveyone

Amos

Anita... thank you for your offer.. but with all i've sown with Poppies - I do think i have a lot as it is. Plus, those Orientals do look familiar, I may have one or two out there that came in a seed Mix. I know i've had the Red ones.

I wanted to try something different to see what would happen. I put 6 of my containes on the south side of my house, which gets full sun. All of those containers were started on March 23. I think 4 of the 6 have sprouts already. I tried some clematis just for the hell of it and it's sprouting, too! Overall I don't think I'm doing to badly...maybe 10 jugs are sprouting out of close to 50. It's seems like the full sun location offers faster sprouts. I really wasn't expecting much with the clematis. I have been trying to grow it from seed for years!

Thanks for the info that led me to WS my poppies on the 1st. Of April !!! They are already little sprouts!! Did the chia method (full packet) and am very excited!