... in starting my flower seeds.
In previous years my two light units would be bulging with flower seedlings with the few vegetable seedlings jostling for room. This year my stands are nice and roomy. The only flowers that I've started are geraniums, petunias and zillions of sweet peas.
Maybe this is my midlife crisis? When I visualize my future beds I know see the colored foliage of lettuce and basil, balls of color from bush tomatoes and peppers, yellow and purple beans glistening like jewels.
Not to worry though, this week I will be starting some quick growing annuals, zinnias, marigolds, salvia, four o'clocks and alyssum. Accents or the edibles in the beds :)
You must be getting old ;-)
ReplyDeleteI'll be direct sowing my Four O' Clocks as soon as I get the flower beds all cleaned out. They've been neglected this spring, while working on the new section of veggie garden. I'm hoping I can find enough marigolds volunteering, as I didn't plant enough. My seeds were old, I should have replenished my supply. I threw out so many dead plants early in the spring, I don't know why I didn't save some of the seeds!
It's too late for planting sweet peas here. I must be in a warmer zone than you (7b I think)
Granny, I'm in zone 6b. If it wasn't for the mountain, I'd be a zone higher. The sweet pea seddlings are large and bushy now. I'm hoping to get them in the ground next week.
DeleteI can save almost any seed, but have no luck saving marigold seeds. I will try again this year.
I planted some flowers this year but they're mostly perenials - roses, peonies, astibe but I also have some sweet peas direct sowed, gladiolous that is just waking up (about 40 of those around the garden), some marigolds and snapdragons. It's too bad that this cold snap is keeping everything from growing properly.
ReplyDeleteJenny, that's why I don't sow mine that early- even indoors. I've found they do much better planted outside smaller and I don't have to worry about cook weather.
DeleteYou seem to be coming over to my side. Sure, flower are pretty, but vegetables have flowers AND they grow into edibles.
ReplyDeleteGrafix, I seem to be making the shift. I grow lettuce as much for it's beauty as I do for it's taste!
DeleteI totally forgot to start my Marigolds and Nasturtiums until Granny mentioned it the other day! Then I realized that I bought the wrong marigold seeds! Those are the only flowers that I grow from seed and they are used in the veggie garden. I am trying to convert all of my flower pots to perennials and fruit. All of my flower beds here are filled with strictly perennials.
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