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Re: Seed sowing techniques......

Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 22:07:18 -0400
    From:  "Geoffrey Charlesworth, Sandisfield MA Zone 5 NARGS"
<Androsace@AOL.COM>


I would like to add something to Norman's statement about spraying pots
in
dry weather. He waters his pots more often than I do. ,I almost never
try to
keep them moist by overhead watering. They seem to survive some drying
before
they germinate and will then germinate quite well the following spring.
I am
talking about gentians, campanulas, primulas, androsaces, dougalsias,
astragalus, oxytropis and a few others. I don't think crucifers and
composites will germinate the second spring if they have failed the
first. If
you sow seed in early summer the problem is a bit different. I have sown
Adonis vernalis just as it ripens and it usually germinates in August or
September. Then you have to be careful to see that the pots don't dry
out.
But this is only one or two pots not the hundreds that we sow in winter.
Crucifers etc. will be sown in winter not when just ripe. Geoffrey
Charlesworth


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Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA
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