RE: question time if you all don't mind
- Subject: RE: question time if you all don't mind
- From: "Donna" j*@prairieinet.net
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 09:11:44 -0600
Thanks Beth. Interesting idea. Definitely going to try this next summer
and have made some notes on my 2003 calendar.
Donna
>
> 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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