Re: poppies--bad seed
- Subject: Re: poppies--bad seed
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:53:26 EDT
In a message dated 10/22/02 10:01:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
lornajean5@hotmail.com writes:
> I had to reply to the question on the poppies because last year in summer I
> replied to the poppies auctions and paid $ 8.00 for poppies and got a good
> size baggy full and not one came up either. It was very dissappointing....I
>
> have done better with seed trades or buying them from the store!
===>I wonder if these auction sellers are sprinkling seeds from bottles of
poppy seed bought at the grocery store and selling them. I don't know whether
these have been treated so they don't germinate or what.
As for planting poppy seed, I usually do it in the winter when there is some
light snow cover--I sprinkle the seed right on the snow. When the snow melts
the seed settles into the earth and germinates in the spring. I've had great
success with this method with both Flanders and California poppies.
Bill Lee
Z6a Cincinnati
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