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Re: Year old flower seeds?

I received a large pack of wildflower seeds which sat in my basement
for three years until I found them.  Was going to throw them away but
planted them in a somewhat sunny location and they grew. 

Good luck

---Ross E Stanford <stanford4334@juno.com> wrote:
>
> 
> 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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