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We start 2000 tomato plants two seeds to the cell in the same mix they will be in up to planting in the garden. We have not found a seed starting mix necessary for tomatoes. The extra seedling is cut off when potting up to the four inch pot. It is extremely rare to find a cell with no plant. Al
Millet would be an excellent project for kids.
I'm a kid sometimes. I got a package of Cockatiel food mixed seed, planted them and got perhaps a dozen different plants, two or there mustards, a couple of sunflowers, perhaps six grasses and something I later decided might have been buckwheat. Next time I feel like being a child I will save the label from the package and attempt to identify all the plants with the help of Google image search. Wildflow seed mix is much more fun with Google image search.
First thought would be wintergreen, it has attractive red berries the the birds love and it is also evergreen.
Second if you are looking for more invasive is english ivy, though it will not do so great in our southern full sun. It may tend to look a little more sparse. In the shade it would be great, rocks no problem. Also this is another evergreen.
Periwinkle, would be pretty but also invasive but nowhere near the english ivy and it does not care for our southern full sun either.
Creeping juniper, it is evergreen and it tolerates full sun.
I am assuming here you are looking for evergreen.
Daylilies grow easily from seed with no preteatment. Your plants may not resemble the parent, but thats OK, there is about 50,000 varieties now, and so whats one more. You can grow a peach from a pit, but it will take 10 years to find out it is not a good peach, so I would not. Al
Ricardo
You can grow a peach/nectarine from a pit, it will take only 3 years to find out it is a good or a worthless fruit.
Growing on their own roots Prunus varieties develop very quickly in fruit stage.
Even, a Peach/Nectarine cutting (taken from a perennial tree) can bear some fruits in a second year.
So, give it a try it's worth.
Alcedo
SEED NEED TO BE STORED AT 40f FOR 4 WEEKS THEN ...DO NOT COVER SEED (LIGHT REQUIRED) SOIL TEMP 70-75F FOR GERMINATION. TAKING 15-20 DAYS TO GERIMNATE.....TIME FROM PLANTING TO READY TO SET OUT (GREEN) 16 WEEKS..... SO COUNT BACK 16 WEEKS FROM THE DATE YOU CAN SET OUT ON THIS NEW DATE SOW SEED
I am using cables designed for preventing rain gutters from freezing. They should be available in Canada. Mine is 300 watts and 60 feet in length. I bought mine along with a separate thermostat from Charlies greenhouse supply. My heated table is 3 feet by 6 feet. Al
When the basil flowers turn brown then you will find the seeds inside. I usually pick them before the top flowers turn brown.
Parsley as soon as the floret turns brown pick it and place it in a bag. Shake to loosen the seeds
Zinnia Let the petals turn brown. At the end of the petal are the seeds.
1) lightly cover seed soil temp 80F taking 8-14 days to germinate & 16-20 weeks to produce fruit
2) growing on temp above 65F nights
3) common garden soil with a pH 6.0-6.5
4) do NOT over fertilize
5) there is another forum dealing with pepers that may have other advise