Re: question time if you all don't mind
- Subject: Re: question time if you all don't mind
- From: "Beth" b*@hotmail.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:17:50 -0500
Re: starting perennial seeds in mid-summer...
I just started working part-time at a nursery this year...(Michigan, zone 5
near Traverse City) They start a fair number of perennials from seed. They
start them in mid-summer in seed-starting flats...(each planting strip is
about an inch wide and runs the width of the flat). They start these in a
poly house with the sides rolled up sometime in the first half of July if I
remember right. When the seedlings have a couple sets of true leaves, they
then pot them in one gallon containers and put them outdoors in full sun
under an irrigation system. They leave them outdoors all winter, but cover
with agricultural blankets with some rodent bait under it with the pots...
not sure when they cover and uncover. Then sell in the spring through fall.
You wouldn't have to use one gallon pots, cause by April many aren't that
big (nursery just doesn't want to have to re-pot again). And as Paul said,
now they're definitely hardened off and also old enough to bloom. This may
not suit your circumstances, but thought I'd pass it along.
Beth
(zone 5 Michigan near Traverse City)
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