Category Archives: Plant Propagation
Planting Seeds with a Board
If you’ve ever tried to space any seeds correctly as you plant them you’ll quickly find out how hard it is to do. I came up with this idea to space my zinnia seeds so that I will reduce my … Continue reading
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Lantana – it’s alive and well in St. Louis
If you still have lantana in the ground from last year, don’t dig it out and throw it away – it may still be alive. Because of the warm winter, my Miss Huff and Star Landing lantanas are both coming … Continue reading
Filed under Nectar Plant, Plant Propagation, Pruning
Seed Germination Book – Free Download
If you’d like to have a bit more success with getting your seeds to germinate, here’s a book I found online which is available as a free download - SEED GERMINATION THEORY AND PRACTICE 1. Main book – second edition – … Continue reading
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Getting Gomphrena to Germinate
The Winner Is: Heat Mat – seeds slightly covered with soil. In three days the gomphrena on a heat mat germinated. Five of six have germinated. It also appears that the seeds slightly covered seemed to look at bit better. … Continue reading
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Planting Outdoor Seeds – Dec. 1st
I planted at least 2000 seeds in three different areas. These are all seeds which need cold-stratification or seem to endure our cold winters and readily start from seed in the spring. Note – I only planted Red/Cream echinacea in … Continue reading
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Seed Collecting Time
If you haven’t already started, now’s a good time to start collecting seeds from your garden. I use a very simple system – paper bags. Depending on the size of the seed pods, I use either a large grocery bag … Continue reading
Filed under Butterfly Gardening, Plant Propagation, Seeds
Milkweed Seeds
1650 milkweed seeds for $7.00 – now that’s a bargain. Everwilde.com seem to be a great and economical source for milkweed seeds. It works out to be a bit more than 2 cents per plant – it doesn’t get much … Continue reading
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Milkweed Pollination
After a very poor year of milkweed seeds, I thought I’d try some hand pollination and see if that helps. In many flowers and fruits you can just go around with a small water color brush and move the pollen … Continue reading
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Planting Next to the Basement
One of the tricks I have learned is that with some plants, if you plant them next to a basement wall, they will return every year even if they otherwise would die out in the rest of the garden. My … Continue reading
Filed under Butterfly Gardening, Hummingbirds, Nectar Plant, Plant Propagation
How to Have an Early Spring in February
One of the tricks I use to bring spring a bit earlier to my garden is this. In the fall I plant thousands of seeds which need cold-stratification, in different beds in the yard.Today, Feb. 21st, I went out to … Continue reading
Filed under Butterfly Gardening, Plant Propagation
