I winter sowed 13 milk jugs a few weeks ago. I'm happy to report that almost all of them have sprouts. Of course, some are overachievers and are really taking off. Others are slackers and are taking their sweet time. I'm most excited about the pink skullcaps that are sprouting. One of the pink skullcaps I got at the fall RU last year went to seed and I harvested them. Only got about 5 seeds, but already 3 have sprouted!!
These are my Blanket Flower seedlings.
Very impressive, especially the skullcaps. I will have to do that with my limelight salvia next year.
I finally decided to plant some seeds at home, I have 36 four inch pots of different native plants.
Mine are inside under lights and many are sprouting, I am especially thrilled with the Antelope horn's milkweed which I had never had any luck with before.
Josephine.
Josephine, that's wonderful! You'll have to share pics of your setup.
I've got lettuce, basil and butterbeans sprouted. No signs of life on the cucumbers yet, but some of the tomatos are already blooming. I can harly wait for that first tomato sandwich!
I winter sow everything--I haven't bought an annual at a store in years. This was yesterday.
Very pretty! Have you gotten rain yet?
just enough to wet the streets and make it slick--just a trace out my way; baskets are just starting to grow good and fast and start to bloom.
sweet peas love this weather--this is a good one to save seeds on, you'll never have to buy a packet of seeds again--and smells really nice and are super easy to grow from seed
'Painted Lady'
That sure looks pretty Debbie, I like the way you have growing on those stakes, are they expensive?
Thank you! Those steel spirals are in back of the sweet peas, Josephine, and are being used for other things (small tomatoes in the ground to the left and another copper canyon daisy in that big pot to the right--it does better wrapped upwards in our humidity as opposed to just laying on the ground). I imagine they were very expensive because they are very well made and will last forever, but they were a gift from a boyfriend--so they didn't cost me anything (I have 12 of them). They make interesting yard art if not in use too.
The peas are growing up a wooden fence post that's been there about 10 years. There's a cypress tree to the left of the picture and I grow cucumbers up there in the summer--it likes the half day shade.
Well, you could have fooled me, I can see you are a very creative gardener indeed, cucumbers up a cypress tree, I never heard of it, but why not?
I said the fence post is (about 15') to the right of a cypress tree--I don't grow cucumbers up a cypress tree, I grow them where the sweet peas are now. The cypress tree merely provides late afternoon shade.
had to chuckle dmj. does "I have 12 of them" refer to the stakes or boyfriends?! ;-) Hope you get some more rain!
Well, I sure misunderstood what you said, sorry.
lol nbgard--the stakes, but I do generally have more than one boyfriend too (it keeps them trying harder)
