Seeds are up - Page 6

Compared to annuals they do take longer. I'll go out and have a look in the greehouse after another cup of coffee. I was hoping that with the sun out the snow would be off the roof by now and it would be warm enough for coffee out there.

Hmmm, I fetched mine inside on a windowsill. Have I done the right thing do you think?

Not for aquilegia, no. Get them out in the cold.

Still just the 2 angelicas up. They were sown back in the autumn. The aquilegias have only had 2 or 3 weeks. This sort of sowing and germination is nothing like annuals and veg. It's a much longer process. Most of what I've got out there would have germinated very quickly if I'd sown them fresh but they weren't from my garden, they'd been dried off for packing and gone dormant. The chilling is a way of breaking the dormancy. I know some people just sow them in the spring and the come up but this method has always worked better for me. I use it on anything ranunculaceae; aquilegias, hellebores, aconitums. perennial apiaceae; the angelicas, astrantias, and the primulaceae. Most of the hardy trees and shrubs get the treatment as well.

Definitely or even outside if they're not about to get washed out by rain. Snow won't hurt them.

Snapdragons need protection. Foxgloves are hardy. I've never got larkspurs to germinate.

On this forum recently someone suggested that larkspurs need the cold treatment.

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Which beans Sam?

Hope they were broad beans!

They were that Lizzie

Red Orache are up and my black cornflower went from 9 to 27 over night

Broad beans are Robin Hood Geoff

Hey more seeds up calendula popped up today I sowed them just under 2 weeks ago, not done them this early before but worth it when you see the seeds growing.

Yes. Another lot. One of the paeonies. Mudan hybrids. This will be a wait and see experience. Could be anything. They were a 2 year germination. Usually are if I buy them. If i sow home grown seed fresh then they come up the following spring.

More of my honesty seeds have come up bit by bit I think these seeds appear, still waiting for the proper leaves to come up. Long time for those seeds to germinate nutcutlet I suppose if fresh they germinate quicker

Think they must do Gardengirl. The books say that in the first year the root grows and in the second the shoot but I've never found a root after the first year.

I'm waiting for the next emergence now.

I've spotted some variegated honesty getting ready to flower this year so you'll get another supply anyway, whatever the current batch turn out to be.