Re: Starting seeds outdoors
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Starting seeds outdoors
- From: D* G*
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:04:52 -0500
At 02:51 PM 1/6/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I'm going to start a new thread here...
>
>Does anyone have a sure-fire way of starting seeds outdoors of
>annuals/perennials?
One thing you may want to start doing is to plunge a 1 gallon nursery
container (bottomless or not) into the soil and plant your seeds into the
pot. The pot acts as a physical delineator to tell you where the seeds are
-- and where the weeds are. You can then qet quite a few seed lots into a
relatively small garden area and with a bit of protection from the full hot
summer sun, you'll find yourself with a small nursery's worth of seedlings
every May.
You can mulch around the pots (or lightly over them) if you're using a weed
free mulch to keep the weeds down in the nursery bed. Watering is best
done with a fine rose/water breaker on the end of the hose so the tiny
seeds or seedlings are not bashed around with a stream of water. Don't
worry about feeding until you see growth (and don't feed the weeds):-) Do
label the pots unless your steel trap of a mind is much steelier than
mine.;-) I always forget which seeds are which if the labels go missing so
I tend to shove them right down the side of the pot so I can't see them and
they can't get broken off. Shoved down like that, they don't get exposed to
sunlight and get brittle but if I always put them in the same side/location
in the pot, I can always find them to see what I'm growing.
Hope that helps a bit.
Doug
Doug Green,
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