6,340 Garden Web Discussions | Growing from Seed
Most of the ~ "seed collecting" site:.edu ~ hits or related to the collection of "native" seed, presumably in the wild. Is this your area of interest? The link below references a book on collecting vegetable and ornamental seed.
Here is a link that might be useful: missouri.edu site
Try the FAQ in the link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Spring and Summer Sowing (with seed lists)
Many perennials seem to do better at surviving winter if they've reached a good size before frost. If you do sow seeds for fall germination, I would mulch them thickly as soon as the ground freezes solid and pare back the mulch gradually in spring.
I started mine under lights about 1.5 months ago, they are outside in hte garden in my flower box already! Mine had NO prob. germinating with just reg. planting soil!! I put them in 1 gallon milk plastic jug cut in 1/2 and they all came up! I used Morgan and Thompson seeds! They are now like......8 leaves and the leaves are like 5-6" each.
I dumped a big bag of manure in my front flower bed, Didn't mix it in, just spread it evenly over the top. Kept it nice and moist for a couple weeks. My neighbors cat didn't like it and found a new place to go. Then just before I was ready to plant in the bed I mixed it in real good.
Pam
Sounds like damping off, which is a fungus that attacks young seedlings, usually ones started indoors. Mine started to do that too, but mine were wintersown. My solution was plant them out immediately, that way the microscopic "good guys" could take care of it. It worked for me. All of the ones planted out made it just fine. Cosmos is a full sun annual. As long as there is a good root system, and you keep them watered at first, they should recover from the transplant, as you have already somewhat hardened them off. Once they are established, they are pretty drought tolerant.
My morning glories have been out for 3 weeks!!! I was covering them at night for the first week or so and now they are vined about 5 feet up my trellis already! I am zone 4....so yes...your mg can get into the ground if you ask me!!!My marigolds have been out for a week and are doing fab,.....I would say to get your plants outside, they are prob. in need of some sun, wind, rain, and real soil!!!!
Thank you so much! I didn't knick the Moonflower seeds, so that may be the problem there. I tried to with the castor beans, but I don't know if I suceeded or not. I saw some suggestions on knicking seeds, so I'll have to try that.
Thanks again! :)
Alicia
