Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Seeds, Plugs and Winter Sowing, 1 by Buttoneer

Buttoneer wrote:
Here is what I ordered & got. A half flat (208 plantlets) of Bronze Leaf Red Flowered Begonia. You can see the comparison of their size with my arthritic hand. I paid $ 16.00 for the flat, bringing it to approx 8 cents apiece per plant. The reason I am keeping them in a kitty litter box sitting in a diluted mix of 20-20-20 is for them to get really good size before I pot them up 5 to a 5 inch pot. A couple years ago, the plugs were about half this size, I tried to pot them up & they were too small so last year, I kept them like this until they were large enough to survive the transplant. I put them in window boxes around our pond and the entire plant turns firey red in the sun, quite a show. Closeup in next post

This message was edited Mar 11, 2009 7:41 PM