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Re: Year old flower seeds?

Stan,

I took all my left over flower seeds (those in packages and those seeds I'd
been givven by friends mixed them all together and planted them between the
vegatable rows,  some have already started to sprout.  So give it a try....
some of the seeds are 5 years old!

Granny Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Bonfiglio <ebonfiglio@yahoo.com>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 7:48 AM
Subject: 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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