A while back I started some flower seeds in the greenhouse which are intended to go into the summer gardens both here and at Nikole's. I planted Marigolds, Bee Balm and Impatiens. It has now been six weeks since they were planted. The Bee Balm have not germinated at all. I planted a second smaller group with the remaining seeds and they have not come up either. In a little online research it turns out that some Bee Balm seeds benefit from a moist chill so I am back out to the greenhouse to bring in the Bee Balm seeds to refrigerate. There were a couple tiny seedlings that had started so I transplanted them into cups before sticking the others in the fridge.
The marigolds germinated but not well. I planted only one seed per cell so some cells did not germinate.Two weeks ago when they were four weeks from the date they were planted I transplanted them into cups. Here they are today. They have multiple leaves and sturdy stems. I think that we have about 24 plants.
These are the Impatiens. There was a little mishap with the planting of these. The little dish that I had transferred the seeds into got jostled and the seeds flew, landing on a thin layer of seed starting mix. I spread the seeds and mix over the filled but not yet planted cells, planning to thin/replant when they came up. We actually got a fair number of seeds to germinate and when they were still pretty small they were separated to one plant per cell.
Here is one of the tomato seedlings from the first group planted...
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| Brandywiue tomato |
and the asparagus...
and the kohlrabi...
This weekend I will be starting more seeds for the summer garden and hope to have more updates on seeds that have been started.
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