Whooooooooooooooooooo Hoooooooooooooooooooo!!

I am so happy for you!!

Congratulations on your sprouts ladyrose65!! Doing the happy sprout dance to celebrate!

Calendula, mustard and lupines...oh my!!

This was my very first WS sprout last year, also a lupine:

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I love the lupine sprouts. For some reason they look so happy to me.

Look at those! Super! I have always loved Lupine...only had one plant one year and never tried to grow them again. I think I shall see if I can change that.

Matthew
Indiana.Matt

Matthew - they want lousy soil. I'm in the same zone(s) as you are and my folks practiced organic gardening here for 40+ years. Everywhere I dig there are big, fat worms so I know the soil is healthy. My lupines do okay but the neighbor next door whose soil is nothing but sand and rocks has GORGEOUS lupines.

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The ones above are my own 'Chandelier' and they're growing about 60 ft. south of my neighbor's:

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Thanks everyone, Caroline, Gardenweed, Bev2009 and IndianaMatt.

But first and foremost Trudi_D!

May sound silly but is there a way to make the soil less fertile to make lupines happy? Add sand? Something else? My raised beds I am building will be a good soil mix (soil-sand-hummus mix) Wondering what I can add to the area I plant my lupines to make them happy!

Ladyrose, you go girl!

So happy for you!

I found "Sea Lavender" sprouts, today. Hopefully, by Friday, it will be enough to take a picture of.