Re: Starting seeds outdoors
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Starting seeds outdoors
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 23:58:01 EST
In a message dated 1/12/00 10:08:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
margotk@mindspring.com writes:
<< Last year I
sprinkled some larkspur in March (based on input from this list) and
poppies. They were terrific - the larkspur were a little late but I was
still happy with them. I am gardening on the East End of Long Island which
is rated zone 7 although I think of it was zone 6. >>
Margot, two years ago I sprinkled poppies and larkspur seeds over a light
snow cover in January and they were relatively early and bloomed like crazy.
They've also self seeded and the poppies aren't doing as well, but the
larkspur are even coming up in the garden paths. The beds I have the
larkspur in are so covered in new seedlings right now that you can't see the
soil. They do make it over the winter. I am just a little east of
Cincinnati and they say we're zone 6a. Sometimes we're a little more like a
zone 5 because we can get short periods of intense cold. But I know for a
fact that poppies and larkspur take to winter seeding.
Bill Lee
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