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Year old flower seeds?


I am going crazy here.  Maybe in about two days, if it doesn't rain, I
will be able
to get into my garden.
     So, I came up with something different.  About a month ago, the Home
Depot
was selling last years flower seeds for 5 cents a package.  I bought 20
of them.
Knowing even less about flowers than I know about veggies, did I throw my
dollar
away or should I have the same luck with the flower seeds that I have
with
one year old veggie seeds?
     I took my rototiller to the back property line, where it is just dry
enough
to rototill, and ran one line, about 80 feet long.  I then opened all the

flower seed packets and put them all in a plastic cup.  (OK, a used coin
cup from Circus Circus)  I then spread them over the rototilled surface.
I will run a soaker hose down the middle at a later date.  What the heck,
only cost a dollar.  (I have a spare hose).  
    Now I know that I don't seem like the flower type, because you really
can't torture a flower but........   Wait a minute,  
She loves me,
She loves me not,         Hey that will work.  
    Well I waited for two hours and no sprouts yet!  Oh well, I can't
just 
wait forever.  All that lovely black rototilled dirt.    I planted
watermelon, cantaloupe, and pumpkins on top
of the flower seeds.  They have a large field to grow into.  Maybe the
weeds will protect the melons.
     My wife, (Yes, I have a wife, and yes, everybody feels sorry for
her), wanted to
put out some of those wildflower mixes that look so inviting into the 
newly rototilled row.  I told her
"maybe next year".  Yeah, right!
     
Stan           The cheap and lazy gardener

P.S.     Don't worry about Evil Stan.  We have him locked away in the
attic, nice
and secure.  Now if I can just figure out how Poison Ivy got into my
other
flower garden.

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