Sjoerd
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Yes... I figure that if I have to leave them so long, that I may as well give them a really good shaking to get the new seeds down and ready to go for next year. When they are blooming it looks like there are areas of blue smoke or mist over the surface of the ground. Ha ha ha... not a bad effect.
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bsewnsew
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Hey.......I are late viewing that .. my mind is absent for a few days..
that is a cool garden or allotment there.. You do have my arches.....My forget me nots also. YOu dont get your feet muddy as much as I do.
I love the designs also........Mulch helps...
Thanks for putting up with us nosy ones.
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Silman45
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:14 am Post subject: |
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ok, what am I doing wrong? I have tried for the past two seasons to get forget-me-nots to grow and have had no success!
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bsewnsew
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Cold weather crops for one thing..
I did mine in the fall.
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Sjoerd
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| Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Well Silman... why don't you do something daring and prepare a patch by digging and raking fine...the water that and broadcast the seeds over it. Cover with a very thin layer of compost seeding soil or something like that. water again and cover with a piece of plastic. when they germinate and start pushing their little heads up... remove it one morning and let them be.
They may well do it.
They will grow in most soils, but seem to do best in a place that has partial shade.
Normally you would sow the seeds in late spring or even early summer, but for the experiment you could try them now. The seeds are usually quite inexpensive so if they do not do it, no great loss.
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