Seeds to sow in July?

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• bullfinch Posts: 692

  July 2022

  There's a little section on the Gardeners World main website, with jobs for July. I know it has a few, including carrots, radish, wallflowers, forget-me-not and delphinium, but there were some others too 🙂

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  July 2022

  There are quite a few perennials and biennials that can be sown now for next year.
  Plants like foxgloves that are finishing will be dropping their seed now, so that's a good indicator that it's the right time to sow them.

  
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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  July 2022 edited July 2022

  You are probably safe with most biennials, except very early flowering ones, as they would  naturally drop their seeds about now, or in a month or two. Being a little early is not likely to cause a problem, but check hardiness in anything you need to overwinter outside. You don't want to end up with a load of little plants that need cosseting

  I've had a dig among my seed packets and found some foxgloves, sweet williams and wallflowers that I am going to try, even though some seed is not new.
  

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• ShepherdsBarn Posts: 401

  July 2022

  Ah ... thank you everyone. 🙂

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• Rob Lockwood Posts: 380

  July 2022

  You might have some luck with wallflowers @Buttercupdays - I found some old packets of seed and bunged them in earlier this year expecting nothing - doing very well.  "Sow by" date of 2016!
  

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• WAMS Posts: 1,960

  July 2022

  All mentioned above plus honesty. I am also using my empty seed trays to grow more pansies from seed.

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