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Zones do matter with melons since they need a long, warm growing season, about 100 days. In your zone 4 it is hard to grow melons.

But good luck finding the seeds and trying. Hope it works out.

Sometimes they grow a rosette of leaves in fall, overwinter, and bloom in spring. Sometimes they wait and sprout (germinate) in spring. Depends on the plant.

SOAK SEED IN WATER FOR 3 HOURS THEN LIGHTLY COVER WITH SOIL. SOIL TEMP FOR GERMINATION 65-75f tAKING 30-120 DAYS TO GERMINATE.

Thanks, I shall do it in the morning.

Yes, and I've sown them from my spice jar - I have a nephew who loves lemon-poppy seed pound cake :)

But while they grow and bloom, the colors weren't terribly inspiring from that jar, mostly washed out pastels, many white singles, a few of pink or pinkish lavender. If you have an area in your garden where the subtle mixed colors will work for you, you can certainly sow them though.

I have used berry containers in the same way, except just line them with newspaper and put the seeds in potting soil in there. It is a good start before transplanting into individual pots. I have a lot of pots I have saved over the years from nurseries and garden centers.

Like Evelyn I do the same with berry containers, but also use them as cheap cutting propagators since they control temperature and humidity rather well.

It would probably grow mold. Let some air in.

Thanks for advise. I placed the palm seeds in warm water in a sun room and there are those gnats and flies, so I was worried that they may mess it up, but anyway I'm changing water every day.

You should be able to do it, but what is killing the grass there now, and why would it not also kill the new grass? Before sowing new grass I would find out what is happening. Al

Had you noticed penstemon with their erratic germination have their own section on the Clothiers site apart from the other perennials? Might be something you'd like to read through...

Here is a link that might be useful: Clothiers, penstemon

The only way to find out is to test plant them by putting seeds between wet paper towels. Brown towels are probably best these days because white ones have a white dye in them. I know they streak windows, so who knows what they would do to seeds.

Sorry for the misfortune. Maybe plant a tree by your mailbox now, for shade.

I would not expect much damage. Overheating seed is certainly not a good thing, but how often do you see racks of seeds in front of garden centers, rolled out every morning into the full days sun. Al

still very straggly, long anf thi, with only a slight top leaf, encased in liquid... NOTHING like the few I have outside..??

For what it's worth, I have daffodils planted with my coneflowers. The coneflowers don't grow where the daffodils are. They self-seed/thrive outside of each clump of daffs.

Termites, slime molds and pileated woodpeckers take care of my tree stumps over a period of many years till they disappear and leave a big hole in the ground. So plant away. It will be a while till the stumps are gone, but it's fun to watch nature take care of it.

Good luck with the rock mulch :O On the upside, it'll keep the tunneling rodents away if you work it into the soil a bit.

Thanks, that's good to know. :)