I'm juggling trays of ProMix and cube-paks and lights and timers and warm and cool and light and dark... yes, it's time to germinate!
Right now I've got about ten brugmansias potted on into 4" pots, about 6" tall and lusty they are. I started these from seed in February. From echoes, I've got Baptisia australis (wild indigo) and some campanula (it's proving to be finnicky). I've also started salpiglossis, schizanthus, heliotrope, amorpha, eccremocarpus, salvia patens (the brilliant blue one), rudbeckia "Prairie Sun", platycodon, and some Wave petunias. Phew!
This past weekend I started tomatoes, basil, garlic chives, matthiola bicornis, reseda odorata, marigolds, asarina, sweet peas and lavatera. I also brought out of cold treatment some delphinium and larkspur to start germinating.
I've also started about four dozen bulbs, tubers and rhizomes: cannas, begonias, a dahlia, caladiums, and a zantedeschia (cala lilly).
Check out my journal (Seeding and Plants, 2006) by clicking on my name beside this message. I'm trying to keep track of what I'm growing there. It's a really good feature of DG now that I'm figuring out how to use it.
What all is everyone growing/starting these days?
Germinating right now!
I'm on a smaller scale than you Andy. I've started Hibiscus seeds, Silver Falls seeds, Cardinal climber seeds and an African Violet leaf has nicely rooted for me with several new leaves. My geranium cuttings are going great guns. I've got 2 pots of Caladiums started and will be doing the dahlias tomorrow.
I'm juggling too. ~~:-)
Joan
Well arent you a busy guy Andy!
I am one of those who starts nothing from seed ( except sometimes I buy packets of annuals and strew them around in the garden) , even buy tomatoes, cabbage cauliflower and cucumbers already started.
Kudos to all of you who do it from seed- not my scene!
Well I know the juggling feeling here also. I have 2 sets of 4 lamp lights up right now.Under one set there is pansy,oodles of wave Petunias, Datura, and Cotton Rose Bush.. Under the other one is 6 Plumeria I started from seeds, a Burg, Spoon tomatoes, and 3 cucumbers that are almost ready for the Maxi-Kap..I still have lots to go yet but I will wait for a couple of weeks for them..I absolutely LOVE spring..
Boy you have been busy Andy. I have lots more that I want to do yet, more than I've done, for sure. Must get my tomatoes started soon. I'm not even juggling, I haven't taken the balls out of the box yet. I have done some cuttings too.
Andy
You must be a very busy guy! I would be staring at the seed trays every few minutes.
I only have some amaranthus, Salpiglosos,euclyptus, cobea and stocks started from seed. I do have my canna's ,black mondo,newZealand flax a few begonias ,blood grass and gerainums going too but not from seed.
Ann
I planted two more flats of columbine ,2 6pks of flowereing maples ,pink trift,blue wave petunias,opedent plant,ice plants,and started some rubarb seeds in paper towels,Gees im running out of room ,thats it the kids are going to boarding school i need there beds
lol
wish it was warm enough for the green house
Just LOVE this time of year, there's something so rewarding in those first tiny green shoots.
Here in my yard, April 1 is the 'official' greenhouse start date, my favourite day of the year!
We had a really good gentle warm rain overnight, (all the rain barrels are full) and can now start my 70-odd packages of seeds! the usual favourite annuals, perennials, biennials, and new to me this year some heirloom veggies and melons
Have had two little hydroponic set ups under lights in the family room since the first of February, harvested lettuces from that. (thought I had a leak in one 'garden', found out the cat kept drinking from it ;), I forgive him a lot, he's over 17, lol)
I'll have my greenhouse helper/garden buddy over (my 13yr old niece) today, we'll fill pots with starting mix, set the seeds and water. The greenhouse is home made, 10 x 14 feet, but there's never enough room, lol.
I'm going to try the 'Square Foot Garden' method for the veggies outside this year, with the melons and tomatoes in the greenhouse for the summer.
Gardening is an adventure in your own backyard!
Happy gardening to all!
Sue
yes driven i know what you mean it is so good to see your seeds sproting and growing,
It will be a couple weeks befor i get to my green house i shoveled out the door today and steped in didnt want to come out it felt so nice and warm,and there is a sertian smell you get in the green house thats so nice dont know what it is but i love it must be the smell of soil .
square foot gardening is great way to go bonkers, i switched 2 years ago and would never do any thing else now
I have been juggling for a while now, i have startes mexican hyssop, poeenella - melton fire, 3 differnt varieties of campanula, wave petunias, flowering maple, aster 3 varieties, snapdragons 3 varieties, cosmidium, celosia, hollyhock 3 varieties, impatiens, marigold - simba, lavatera white, nicotiana varigated and pink, nasturtiums, nemesia, centaurea - milk maid, datura, stocks, verbena, 4 different miniture sweet peas, columbine, delphinium, echinacea magnus, helenium, thumbrgia alta, asarina vine, bidens - golden eye, ipomoea - cameo, monopsis, phlox - candy cane, millet - purple majesty, aster - pink tower & florette champagne, carpanthea, cineraria - jester, coreopsis - quills and thrills, tigerfloweres, and basillis, craspedia, cuphea summer medley and purple star, convolvulus red, echinacea white swan, paradoxa, prima donna, prarie sun, digitalis alba, gaillardia burgandy, geranium, knautia macedonia, lynchnis dusky salmon, lamnanthes spanish omelette, marigolds, zinnias, monarda, phacelia - lavender lass, polemonium sulphur trumpets, rudbeckia chim chiminee, kelevdon star, cherokee sunset, senecio silver dust, dahlia star gazer, viola freckles, tomatoes.
I now have 5 full 4 shelf plant stands, 3 small portable green houses and 6 4x8' banquet tables full of plants that were all started from seed.
I must say that these are for a fundraiser for our volunteer fire department but i have done all the work for it. I have also made 50 western red ceder planters.
I have been busy!
If i post a pisture of the planter and give the dimensions would you tell what you would pay for it planted?
Have a great day.
Sure.
Don Ü
Sneaking in here to say I've got about 13 heirloom tomatoes planted.
I feel so inadequate looking at the above. Looking forward to seeing everybody's babies flowering!