Growing poppies in 2014

[alldigging]

I've just read a lovely suggestion on a fb group about 'growing poppies in 2014 to commemorate 100 years since the start of the 1st world war.'

I think I'll be planting some.

Any hints?

I have tried in the past without much luck, but my neighbour had a great display of them this year from wild flower seed.

[Greenfingerpaula]

I have poppy seeds to plant next year

[mothhawk]

I don't think I want to commemorate the start of a war that led to the deaths of an estimated twenty million people.

Ask me again in 2018.

[alldigging]

I don't think I want to commemorate the start of a war that led to the deaths of an estimated twenty million people.

Ask me again in 2018.

Mm, you might have a bit of a point.. Maybe though if we all planted poppies by the time 2018 turned up we might have had enough poppies to remember each person who died?

[zazen999]

Hints; sprinkle some poppy seeds where you want the plants and let them get on with it.

I grow poppies every year; and I guerrilla 'threw them out of the window when stuck in traffic' some on the A52 central reservation 6 years ago and they are now growing there on their own. They don't need any help to grow to be honest.

[mothhawk]

This is how I like to see poppies - a field near me, summer 2006

[ancee]

If any one needs any I have millions! I've harvested the ones that went a bit crazy in my garden. They are all in a envelope mixed, so I have no idea what you'll end up with, but feel free to message me and I'll send you some There are the usual looking red ones - but about 7 shades of red, ones with enormous black centres, purple frilly ones, orange corn poppies, my garden looked mad and straggly at the same time! They took over everything