The Flower Seed Sowing Thread 2015 - 2018

[Martin H]

Today I sowed:

Nicotiana sylvestris
Calendula "Orange King"
Godetia "Crown Mix"

[mothhawk]

Instructions on the packet:-
Morning Glory. Soak seeds overnight in tepid water before sowing 6mm deep in pots.....Place in a propagator or polythene bag and keep at 20 - 25C until germination which takes 7-30 days. Do not exclude light.

OK.

Put them to soak on Friday night, drained off Saturday morning and left on damp kitchen roll on the windowsill in a tupperware pot. I've just now idly reached up and opened the pot.



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Going to be busy potting them up tomorrow! Too dark now to see the compost in the shed.

They were mostly self saved seeds, plus a few left from last year's packet.

[Gillykat]

Oh noooo.....forgot to soak my Morning Glory seeds! In my defence I did only find them (and a few other packets in a tub from last summer) whilst rooting around in the shed and forgot to read the back of the packet. Only sowed 5 so may soak some more tomorrow and sow them on Tuesday....if I end up with loads I'm sure I'll soon find places to put them

Another sweet pea is up and also a Blue Ballerina sweet pea too.

Also sowed 35 modules (two seeds in each) of French Marigold 'Champion Mix'


Loads more planned for tomorrow and Tuesday

[Jungle Jane]

Today I've sowed geranium moulin rouge & geranium bulls eye cherry. They're under my fish tank light,took some tomato seedlings out to make space & potted them on. I don't like the compost I used for my seeds,it sets like concrete on the top even though I put water on it before taking them out the cell tray,difficult to separate two seedlings oh well I've only used it on about 100 more seedlings

[Gillykat]

Yesterday I sowed a batch of Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum 'Tasmanian Purple') which I found in the shed....forgot to sow it last year Hopefully they'll come up as they're gorgeous flowers. Also sowed some of last year's French Marigold 'Star Fire' which did so well.

Last night I was looking for a particular book in the bedroom and found a few garden magazines with seeds still attached so I'll be doing those today

[Gillykat]

I left the sweet peas to soak overnight as I'll be back on the plot tomorrow afternoon after work but did finish sowing the rest of my French Marigold 'Star Fire' I also sowed seeds of....

Hollyhock 'Good Golly Miss Holly' x 29

Sweet William 'Electron' ~ one tray

Echinacea purpurea ~ one tray

My Borage seedlings are growing like crazy and roots were poking through their modules yesterday so I potted them into bigger pots today - one tray of 21. Will do the second tray tomorrow.

I've also moved the Hollyhocks I sowed last autumn into the polytunnel as it's not quite as scorching hot as the greenhouse. Also moved to cooler conditions were my fuchsia and trailing pelargonium youngsters and my two Tropaeolum speciosum....they too seemed 'uncomfortable' in the greenhouse heat

[HoneyChild]

Cosmos, sunflowers and snapdragon from Lidel.

Cottage garden mix from £strecherz. I think this included cornflower, calendula and cosmos.

Borage (saved seed myself)

[Vickilou]

Sowed cosmos, put morning glory in to soak and popped bells of Ireland in the freezer, doesn't really sound like gardening does it?

[HoneyChild]

Quite some time ago I sowed some saved aquilegia seeds on the surface of some compost in the greenhouse. I kept watering them but they weren't showing any signs of germinating so I decided to put them outside. I can't remember exactly when I did this, it might have been yesterday or the day before. Anyway, yesterday it rained a bit and today it's properly raining and I've just noticed that lots of the seeds have germinated. So with these seeds it seems you need to put them outside and neglect them!

[Small pumpkin]

Today only 2 varieties sown
Nasturtiums
Calendula pot marigold nova.
A few more getting sown tomorrow hopefully

[mothhawk]

Calendula "Daisy" and Catananche caerulea (Cupid's Dart) sown today, and potted on the cosmos to stop them getting too leggy. The cosmos are in for a shock too, 'cos there's no space on the windowsill for them, so outside they go, under a cloche. They'll just have to harden up or die....

The Cupid's Dart I grew last year flowered from mid-June till the end of November. That's the sort of flower I like

[veggiechicken]

I C U R having a C Day, MH
I sowed some Catananche a few days ago. Never grown them before but they sound like a Must Grow

[Scarlet]

I need to google some of these flowers......

[mothhawk]

I need to google some of these flowers......

[Scarlet]

I love those....Will have to look at the VSP