The last big sowing of the season
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how late in the season can I sow foxgloves?
Comments (7)Digitalis only takes 2-3 weeks to germinate. The seed is very small so it needs to be surface sown. The cotledons of the seedlings are very small and the first true leaves look like minature versions of the leaves on mature plants but are smaller about 1/4" to 1" long. Each new leaf gets progressively larger until a rosette is formed. Digitalis is a bienniel and needs the cold period between the first and second year to intiate flowering. Seeed cultivars such as 'Foxy' that blooms the first year need to be started very early January-February to insure flowering in early summer....See MoreBig Thing I've Learned This Growing Season...What's Your's?
Comments (48)As I newbie I have no success stories but I can share what I have learned thus far.. 1. Newspaper is the best quick fix for a bed overgrown with weeds that is so far from the house that the notion of planting anything there is so far off the too do list that typing it onto my to do list hasn't reached the end of my fingers - not to mention the fact that is was an area I thought, for two years, was my neighbor's neglected mess! Much to my mortification it was really my mess - newspaper, mulch, forcythia and stella dora - beautiful, weedless, in a morning. And it still looks good nearly a year later! 2. I love sprouts! Period! They are growing!! I hope they live but right now I have my instant gratification. I seed green in those jugs! 3. A nice glass of wine, viewing my potential plants, is a lovely thing on a warm spring day. I know I look silly sitting with my feet up admiring a bunch of milk jugs but hey... I am over 30... well over 40.. who do I need to impress but myself! 4. I am so ready for planting! I bought 6 flats of flowers last weekend - I thought I wouldn't be buying any more 5. My design skills improve when I "pretend" to read a book while drinking a glass of wine and observing my gardens! With every glass of wine I have better and better plans! :) What I wish I'd learned.. 1. Why do I keep buying, buying, buying plants and seeds?! Why do they call my anem?? "Christy, Christy, Christy, we need you... you need us.... buy, buy , buy forget your husband... he loves you and doesn't really care if you keep buying!" Well... I am not so sure about that - at least my house isn't full of zip lock mini green houses... 2. When will my husband quit rearranging / adding to my gardens? I love gardens but last fall I split and replanted a bunch of border plants to edge a garden perfectly... they are now in the middle of the new and improved garden - which melded my perfect red and white garden with my emerging purple and yellow garden - what to do with that? (I net a pond in the production so I will quit whining!) 3. When will I figure out how to keep track of what I have planted, what it looks like, how tall it is, is it perennial....???? I plant, go and forget... I hate that I do this but cannot quit! buy, plant, buy, plant, buy, plant it is an addiction! Christy...See MoreRushing the season by winter-sowing before snow
Comments (1)HA!!! Just be glad you have snow. I'm supposed to be in snow country up here. Can't remember the last time the white stuff fell. Why does Virginia have all the luck?! I hope my new perennials make it through the winter. This is my first New England winter with a garden and I know the snow helps protect plants. Please please please please let my plants survive!...See Moredirect sowing cool season crops
Comments (4)A followup to my previous comments. Mo. is a big state you didn't say where you were in the state. I am 50 miles east of NE corner of state. The early crops such as peas, radishes. lettuce, spinach turnips beets etc. I plant real early and will plant a small area of each so if the early crop fails, I still have a crop. I plant in wide rows except for peas. I will plant an area of 30 inches wide by 12- 16 inches. that will give you several meals of each crop. and if the weather turns bad, you may lose a few seeds. but so what. The old timers will say around here " if you don't get snow on your first planting, you planted it late"...See MoreMarkay MD-Zone 7A (8A on new map)
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