Planting from Seeds

[Paisley]

Yesterday I started seed trays of petunias, marigolds, coreopsis, salad greens, and some other plants. I'm also going to plant some other flowers and herbs directly into the ground.

Does anyone else plant from seed?

 

[fourstarbanner]

I have a nice little pot of forget-me-nots started.
Someday I would love to start my own Victory garden in the backyard! I don't know how the landlord would take it, though

 

[vonwotan]

I used to grow my trillium and a few others from seed - quite an exercise in patience. Unfortunately, when I moved I had to give up my garden.

 

[ShooShooBaby]

we're starting our stuff today! i'm excited. we're planting tons of tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, salad greens, kale, mini bell peppers, and tons of herbs. unfortunately we're moving in the next few months so we can't plant it in our rad keyhole bed that we sheet-mulched last fall (ARGH!) but we'll be putting a lot of them in containers.

with the kid i nanny, i'll be planting pumpkins, corn and beans.

 

[MaryDeluxe]

Planting with seeds is so much fun. There's just something about watching the little sprouts shoot up! I usually start my seeds indoors this time of year and then move to my garden in late April or early May once the threat of frost is gone. Then some seeds I will sow directly into my garden in late April. I just love gardening!

 

[Rosie]

I've tried planting from seed. While my little plants do well, once I transfer them to the outdoors, they always die. Then it's back to the Home Depot to get whatever flowers and veggies they have.

 

[Rockapin-up]

I haven't quite mastered planting from seed, the last time I planted some chillis and they were doing real good. Then one night I forgot to cover them and a snail came and snipped every one of them :rage: . I also like to goto the farmers market and get veggies there.

 

[SinatraStyle]

My wife is going to try to grow some tomatoes and peppers this year. As for me, my thumb is not nearly as green. My gardening is limited to mowing the lawn.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I have had very good luck so far...

My sweet pea plant has taken over its hanging basket.....and was the first thing I started from seed.

I now have a small tray of other seedling flower plants almost ready to go into the ground...

Its the first year I have tried this, so am feeling fairly plant-proud that anything has survived

 

[vonwotan]

I envy you all the opportunity to grow vegetables, fruits or herbs. My garden had limited sunlight so I spent a number of years cultivating various New England native wildflowers and other perennials. I never did attempt to grow the various Cyprepediums from seed, for many this can be an eight to ten year undertaking and needs to start in a carefully controlled sterile environment. There is a great source for lab propogated Cyprepedium in Vermont and all of the plants I bought from them bloomed with additional spikes showing up after the first growing season. I am hoping that I will find a way to use my roof rights for growing, but our board has not clarified what type / size structure I can have up there. Most residents are only thinking about private roof decks...

 

[Brooksie]

Last spring I started growing some herbs from seed in the green house and when they got bigger and there was no chance of frost I transplanted them to containers. I actually left all of my herbs in the pots next to the house throughout this last winter, because we had several frosty days several of the herb plants did not make it but some of the real hearty ones did... like the peppermint, oregeno, chives and thyme. They are on a freestanding shelf right now outside my door.

Brooksie

 

[Lady Day]

Ive always wanted to have a garden Always. I so wish I had the space to grow my own vittles. Lucky you people who do. Totally lucky.

*I hate you all*


LD

 

[Rockapin-up]

Ive always wanted to have a garden Always. I so wish I had the space to grow my own vittles. Lucky you people who do. Totally lucky.

*I hate you all*


LD

lol Your too funny. Maybe you can try a window garden.



* I hate you because you can sew and I can't

 

[Viola]

I always have more luck with flowers from seed than veggies. Zinnias, alyssum, sunflowers, marigolds; these guys are troopers for me.

Tomatoes? Prima donnas! I do much better with started 'maters.

Cukes, pumpkins, and squash are about the only veggies I can grow from seed reliably. Though I do okay with spinach as long as its cool, they hate heat even more than I do.

-Viola

 

[jazzbass]

I always grow my veggie garden from seeds. There is a huge variety available from the seed catalogs that are never sold at your local garden center.

Unfortunately, the gophers took over my backyard a few years ago and have destroyed any further attempts at gardening. If any of you have any suggestions for eradication, please post them. I've tried various traps, poisoned bait, sulphur bombs--I'm about ready for nuclear devices...



jazzbass

 

[Cherry_Bombb]

When my brother and I were little we used to have a small garden together in my great-grandmothers back yard. My great grandfather was a carpenter and he used to make decorative fences for people in his spare time. When he died we took some of the starter pieces of his fences and we used them to mark the edges of our garden.

Our method was something like this: break up all the ground in the area, pour as many flower seeds as we had into the tilled area, water and wait. Sometimes only half the garden would grow because the birds would come down and eat the seeds or because there was a tree in the way casting too much shade. But my great grand mother loved it- she keeps it going every year. And she's going on 86!!

 

[Paisley]

Tomatoes? Prima donnas! I do much better with started 'maters.

-Viola

What happens to them? (I've grown a lot of tomatoes from seed, so I might be able to help.)

 

[Viola]

What happens to them? (I've grown a lot of tomatoes from seed, so I might be able to help.)

They started, then got spindly and weak, and then turned bright yellow and went belly up like carnival goldfish. I didn't just let them dry out and die...well I did but I'm not counting that batch, I'm only counting the ones I really did try with. [huh]

The flowers, on the other hand, just ran with what they got and bloomed all season. I don't know what that's about.

-Viola

 

[Paisley]

Did you start the tomatoes indoors, about 6 weeks before it was time to plant them outside? If so, did you use a fluorescent light a few inches above the seedlings?

 

[Rockapin-up]

I just planted some San Marzano Tomatoe seeds indoors. I'm hoping to see some sprouts in a few days. I used the Ferry Morse brand.