Re: Anyone sowing seeds?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Anyone sowing seeds?
- From: M* D*
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 14:43:04 -0600
At 11:01 AM 11/20/98 -0700, Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
>At 09:23 AM 11/20/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>So has anyone started sowing perennial seeds?
>>
>>What have you started and what method are you using? Hothouse...?
>>
>>Duncan
>>
>I'd like to know how people keep seeds moist if you're sowing them outdoors
>to let Mother Nature do the stratifying. We don't have a snow cover, and
>when it does snow here it doesn't stay around for long. Margaret
Margaret, I cover my plug trays with good old clear plastic and stick them
in the cold frame. They pretty much stay moist the whole winter that way,
but I do check them now and again and spritz them if needed. Seems to work
like a charm. Otherwise, the perennials & annuals that are sown by Mother
Nature or direct sown by me into the garden every November (Poppies,
Verbascums, Verbena bonariensis, Digitalis, Myosotis, Cleome, Nicotiana
sylvestris, Lavatera, Buddleia, Linaria, Geranium (hardy), Carex comans
'Bronze', Begonia grandis, Corydalis, Helleborus, Astilbe and many others)
are just sprinkled on top of the soil in the general location I would like
to have them. Seedlings can be dug and moved in the spring. We rarely have
a snow cover and if we do it lasts just 2 or 3 days. Granted it doesn't get
as cold here in 8b as where you live, but the cold frame could mitigate that
for you. Marilyn
Marilyn Dube'
NATURAL DESIGN PLANTS
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, Oregon, Zone 8b
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