Seed starting MAF part 3 5/23/14

It is NOT a Dill--I can tell you that!

Have I ever sent you--or have you looked at this site I have had saved forever???
Good for ID'ing seedlings, seeds, etc....

You can search alphabetically--if you know the plant.

Hope this helps--bookmark it!

http://theseedsite.co.uk/db1.html

Gita

Oh Gita, thank you!

How about Nigella damascena, Love-in-a-mist?

Looks like that.

I have no recollection of sowing that....

I got two seedlings of "Love-in-a-Mist" from someone . They are so fragile!
Stems are really thin and the whole seedling looks just like a pile of gossamer
tiny foliage. There is one bloom showing, though.

Tomorrow, IF I remember-i can go out and take a macro of it.

G.

Nigella was this year's seed choice from Jill's Joyanna that she puts in everyone's little bag - maybe that is what it is and where it came from?

YES, Aspen! Thank you!

Mystery solved!

Thanks, Joyanna (and Jill)! I have lots of little seedlings so hopefully I'll have lots of flower pictures for her! :)

Karen--OK--as promised....

1--here is the foliage from my cardinal Climber vine--it was the
1st thing I thought of when you posted your ??? picture.

2--Here is the foliage from my small Love-in-a-Mist

3--here is a pot I put together--thinking of you...I could kick myself! Chapel Hill
had a 5" pot-full of this very Coleus--and I wanted to buy it, but did not.

4--A complimentary duo--Coleus "Pineapple Wizard' and "Careless Love'...

5--Inky Fingers on it's way...same location as last year....The canna is one of the small
pink ones I bought last year and wintered over in their pots in a dormant state

Karen--did you get a positive ID on your mystery plantling yet??

G.

Karen--we just cross-posted.

What was the name of your mystery plant??

It was one of the little gifts from Joyanna from the seed swap: Nigella damascena "Miss Jekyll Mix"

Similar to this one: https://botanicalinterests.com/products/view/1054/Love-In-A-Mist-Miss-Jekyll-Blend-HEIRLOOM-Seeds

I love the pot you put together! :D I will have to go to Chapel Hill Nurseries. I haven't gone plant shopping in like a Month, can you believe it?!

Karen--Then i was right!!! It is Love in a Mist!!!!
I must have grown it too from Joyanna's seeds. They seem so frail!

Chapel Hill no longer has any coleus. I went and looked....
They do have exceptionally nice annuals and perennials available.

It is nice just to walk and look there...

Stop by if I am home..............like...my car is in the driveway...
You can have this little pot as a gift...since this Coleus lived through
the winter under my lights. Got the pot from a discarded plant...

G.

Except for adding a few flowers and herbs, I think I'm pretty much done with planting in the garden. I think I'm up to 8 qts. of strawberries and more coming. I wish I could say we are finished with all our beds, but can't. I'm hoping that next year, I'll be stronger and able to do more. A lot of days I'm limited to about 4 hours of productive time and the not being able to do is as frustrating as the cause.

Sorry to hear you are still feeling the pain and limitations, Ric... :-(

I have to add that Ric is keeping up with his part of the gardening, I am the one lagging behind.

8 qts of berries! what a great harvest. Ric what do you have pain from?

I'm still planting today
the new seed potatoes are growing nicely and almost ready to have some dirt added

coral nymph salvias started from seeds are blooming even though they are still short and growing

tomatoes have blooms now too

canna border is growing nicely and loved yesterdays rain

I never did get more seeds of purple majesty millet planted; even thought it's late, I may just put some in a pot somewhere for the heck of it. I really love that plant

yes, that's a wonderful harvest of berries! Wind, sounds like your edibles are doing great, too.

Here's my harvest.

This is of course in addition to the one berry I harvested last weekend that my daughter complained was not ripe enough! ;-)

Those look delicious, CatMint! I've been thinking of posting a photo of my strawberry "patch" (ha ha), which as you and SSG have seen is really a bunch of old plants I left in as groundcover that have seen fit to cover the landscape timber stairs in my back yard. The plants produce strawberries, but they must taste terrible because the critters that bite them off only eat half of each berry : )

Gita, I am so glad you mentioned that the seeds you thought were Rudbeckia were actually dwarf red coreopsis. The germination rate for the coreopsis seeds you gave me must have been close to 100%, because I ended up with lots of seedlings everywhere I sowed seeds, as well as one very crowded patch. I just dug up the patch today, broke it into at least 10 chunks, and planted them where I really need short, non-yellow plants. I'll thin them out some more after I see which seedlings are the strongest.

Part of the problem when I sow anything in my sloped back yard is that even though I spread them out, the seeds get washed downhill when it rains and come up in clumps...or a foot away from where I sowed them..or both.



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Ugh, I totally forgot to plant castor bean seeds! I'll do it in the rain tomorrow. I hope it's not too late.

Muddy, I love your strawberry patch!

thanks, Muddy! Glad to know I'm not the only one with an unassuming strawberry patch! :-)

I sowed some Rudbeckia hirta seeds from Gita after the swap, but I think they really are Rudbeckia hirta and not coreopsis! There are several seedlings now and they are light green and kind of fuzzy.

Sounds like you've been really hard at work on your yard so far this season! Would love to hear more about what you're doing and how it's going.

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Cat--

it is possible that seeds I mailed were from the correct envelope.
So far--3 years going--I have always gotten the Dwarf red Coeopsis
when I thought i was planting Angelonias. Too weird!
I should toss all those seeds.....

Muddy--
The Coreopsis seedlings go through a couple phases.
Firs there is a sprawling little clump of small, rounded leaves.
That hangs around for a while--and then the center shoots up a tall stem with
different leaves on them. Almost like Cilantro bolting.

This spike is what the flowers will be on. It will get bigger and make a nice clump.

G.

That is so pretty, Gita! The 'angelonia' seeds I got from you at the seed swap didn't grow for me :-(. I put them in a part shade spot thinking they were angelonia but if they were actually coreopsis, then they probably would have needed more sun to germinate. However, the R. hirta (black eyed susan) seeds are growing nicely and appear to indeed be R. hirta!

I had some threadleaf coreopsis 'Red Satin' last year that I think has come back, although it has been behind on growing and blooming, so I'm not entirely certain whether it's Red Satin or more Sienna Sunset. It wasn't getting enough sun I think, so I moved it recently. Hoping it does well and that it is indeed the Red Satin!

try the castor, sag, they may catch up in the warm soil.
I replanted okra the other day, with this rain it should work for sure this time. That's got to be the last thing I'm ding from seed till fall crops.

Cat,

If you could spare a couple of the Hirta seedlings--I would love to have them.

Hmmm...May be too late in the season by the time I get them in September....
They will be done blooming by then...At least--collect some seeds from them--
now that you know where to look for them....;o) Let the heads dry out completely
before you pick the seeds. Cut off the whole head so you don't lose any.

Yes! The red satin coreopsis is a pretty flower--a nice border color.
It will self-seed like crazy--mark the spot--and you will have oodles of volunteers.

I may just look through my seeds more carefully and see where I got
the ones I sent you from.

G.

Here is my Rudbeckia Hirta (from 2010) you get to look forward to.

I will definitely save some of the r. Hirta for you Gita!

gave away a few more tomato plants last night. most seedlings have made their way somewhere. I hope to get in more salvias today and sweet aztec nitotiana and a red leaf hibiscus. I thought the seeds for the red hibiscus were for Red Shield, but the leaves are not the right shape... not sure what it will be then. I may put the seedlings in a pot to start.

Name that plant...

a pretty yellow ferny one with red in the center ^_^

Ding! ding! ding!
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!

LOL Wind and Terp. Threadleaf coreopsis of some kind?

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[quote="CatMint20906"]LOL Wind and Terp. Threadleaf coreopsis of some kind?

my LOL, and guess, as well

Gita, your Coreopsis is beautiful; I'm glad I have some growing. I actually took packets of both your Coreopsis and "Rudbeckia Hirta" seeds, and sowed the Coreopsis around the perimeter of my new shrub and perennial bed. It's doing very well. The patch I thought was Rudbeckia hirta wasn't doing well where it was, so I had to dig it up and replant it anyway. It turned out there were only 2-3 inches of dirt between the plants and a partially ground-up tree root, and I'm sure that was the problem.

I have some Rudbeckia hirta 'Indian Summer' growing from seeds I got from typwc, and plenty of Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' transplanted from elsewhere in my yard, so that bed is not lacking for Rudbeckia!

CatMint, I'll take some photos of my labors of love soon : )

Sounds great, Muddy! :-)

Gita, can you put me down for some of those red coreopsis seeds?

Diane, I had 3 lumbar vertebra fused on Veterans Day, still giving me some problems. When to see my pain specialist Friday, and changed my meds around, seems somewhat better already. Arthritis and a couple broken ribs aren't helping either. LOL
Threadleaf coreopsis came in a wild flower mix we once had, I think. One of the others that lasted (self sewn) was cosmos.

Heya! Don't know how I missed the thread.

Bit late with this answer, ut yes, Terp, DPF really has a great variety of tomato and pepper plants (especially chiles)

Time to start cukes for me! July planting seems to avoid wilt.. fingers crossed!

well, maybe I'll plant second round of cukes, if I can find a spot.

I picked up a little cuke plant at Behnke's and planted it this weekend! DD's been after me to grow cukes and watermelons--so I've got those growing for her, and the tomato and strawberry plants growing for me. :-) Of course it's not going to be a huge harvest with only one plant of each LOL but still it's fun.

There is a little nursery off of adelphi in Takoma park. They grow everything from seed, translation, thry have thr lowest prices around. Go check it out. I bought extra tomato and pepper plants today because they were 80 cents. I had to try a "black" tomato!

Directions: Take new Hampshire south and make a left on Adelphi, once you pass over Riggs road it is on your left, you'll need to make a u-turn at Metzerott road

80 cents--what a great price! The tomato plant seedling I got is also a 'black' tomato!

Oh, I've been there before, just to check them out. I didn't realize they grew everything from seed. That's a steal! Much cheaper than growing them from seed myself!

Apparently, they're known for their good quality firewood.

got baby cucumbers blooming- cukes very soon!

Aaawww, I wanna see pics of the baby cukes! =)

nice Sally! I planted Armenian cucumbers this year. the seedlings are still small yet, but haven't gotten eaten by bunnies, which is a good sign