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Thu, Mar 17, 11 at 18:39
| So, it hit 65 degrees here today, shooo it was beautiful. Supposed to be even nicer tomorrow. Here's my sprouts, so far...
First, here's all my jugs. Sprouted jugs on the right, unsprouted on the left. None of the cups have sprouted yet, the ones on sprout side are there for wind protection.
Next- today's lupine sprouts...
And convolvulus...
And today's surprise sprouts...Blue Fescue
And some peas...
And come alyssum, probably carpet of snow...
That's all for now. More pics if you follow the links, thanks for looking :) |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Thu, Mar 17, 11 at 19:03
| Awwwww!! What sweet little sprouts! Congratulations on all your littl'ns--may they grow into big, healthy bloomers. |
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- Posted by hostarookie 6 WV (My Page) on Thu, Mar 17, 11 at 20:36
| Beautiful sprouts... congrats!! Doing the Green WaVe! :-) |
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- Posted by gardenunusual 5a (My Page) on Fri, Mar 18, 11 at 5:56
| What sweet little darlings! Congratulations! |
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- Posted by livsauntieshel 6b/7a south PA (My Page) on Sat, Mar 19, 11 at 0:56
| Thanks guys! :) It was so nice out today, I spent the whole day outside, just not really messing with my jugs. It was a spring preview, 77 degrees and S-U-N-N-Y! At 11, it was still 66 out. We were in shorts with the top off the Jeep all day. Ol Ma Nature can be cruel. Tomorrow's going to be mid 50's at best. |
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- Posted by livsauntieshel 6b/7a south PA (My Page) on Thu, Apr 21, 11 at 13:13
| My April update: These are my unsprouted jugs...
And these are my sprouted jugs....
Most lupines have been planted out, this size or larger:
Convovulus have outgrown their lids...
And my one teeny tiny canna sprout. Looks like the other one in the bottle is thinking about sprouting too.
More pics if you follow the links, thanks for looking! |
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| your gonna be very very busy,looks great.. |
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- Posted by livsauntieshel 6b/7a south PA (My Page) on Thu, Apr 21, 11 at 20:50
| Thanks tom, yes, I agree, very busy. I have lots more jugs and seed, but I stopped sowing..because yeah, I don't know where I'm going to put everything I have going now. I put in new beds last year, which I could expand but ugh makes me tired just thinking of it. Probably will have to though, and I'll enjoy it when it's done! |
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- Posted by jodie74 5 (crandalljodie@att.net) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 7:04
| NICE PICS! |
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- Posted by beatrice_outdoors 6 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 10:07
| livsauntieshel-awesome pics! How many seeds of convolvulus did you plant per container? Mine are looking pale compared to yours! I can't wait for them to fill out a bit more. |
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- Posted by livsauntieshel 6b/7a south PA (My Page) on Fri, Apr 22, 11 at 11:18
| Thanks! I think I put 10 or more per bottle. I was a little heavy handed with my sowing. We had some snowy cold days after they sprouted, so some may have died off, but you'd never know it by looking at them now. The roots on those puppies are really impressive too! |
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| I planted out my cherry morella lupines out in the flowerbed last week and they must be tender perennials..they are not there now..Lesson learned..for next year. Next year I will use a gal milk jug too..mine weren't that big. We have had so much rain the last two months and it just started raining again..not even my carpet of snow alyssum is doing well this year. Unless they are HOS, the plants seems very spindley. I'm not sure if I kept some of the cherry morella lupine seeds back or not. Will look..if not use up the blue lupine seeds that I kept back. |
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| Wow, look at those sprouts!! I love seeing other's pictures! :-) You are several weeks ahead of us here in Minnesota. We're still rainy/snowy and cold. But I have 26 containers sprouting as of yesterday! Can't wait to start planting this stuff out. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Here's my latest list of sprouts
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| Pippi, I've had nothing but trouble with lupine. I just planted out about eight of them yesterday and I have my fingers crossed. I read somewhere that they like bad soil -- if so they're in trouble in my garden because I see earthworms with every shovelful of dirt. Caryl |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 5b/6a N CT (My Page) on Tue, Apr 26, 11 at 17:11
| Caryl - I can vouch for the lupines preferring bad soil. Mine do well but my soil is like yours, full of fat earthworms. Next door's soil is nothing but sand & rocks and her lupines are twice the size of mine with multiple flower spikes when they bloom that remain upright and don't flop in wind/rain. I'm trying lupine in a spot on my south foundation where the soil is a little rocky so we'll see what happens. |
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- Posted by jodie74 5 (crandalljodie@att.net) on Tue, Apr 26, 11 at 20:52
| I SOOOOOO want my lupines to grow! My soil is great cause it's brand new bedding mix. Is there a way I can make it "bad" soil that the lupines will thrive in? Add peat moss? Extra sand? |
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- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Wed, Apr 27, 11 at 1:38
| Wow...! Congratulations! Gorgeous sprouts! |
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| Jodie, I'm planning to build a raised portion in a new bed I'm going to eventually build whenever this rain stops, to add in top soil mixed with sand and maybe a little bit of fine gravel for the plants I've winter sown that like poor soil, including the lupine (which I'm very disappointed in, I only got two sprouts out of twelve seeds!). My yard is clay and holds water like a sponge, so a raised bed for these plants is the only way to go for me. I have a forty by ten foot area on the south side of our new garage which I'm going to plant, and I think about a quarter of it, maybe a little more, is going to be a raised bed about a foot or so high. I was going to use landscape stone to build it, but that would cost me an arm and a leg, so I may build it using railroad ties, if I can find some. The RR ties will give it a rustic look, I think. If I can't find any, then I'll use landscape timbers. That's what I'm going to attempt to do. Don't know if it'll work, but we'll see. Karen |
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