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Will I ever learn?
Every year I randomly sprinkle wild flower seeds onto patches of bare soil in the hope that they'll fill in some of the gaps in my borders...every year when they germinate I don't have a clue which are the flower seeds and which are weeds. Will I ever learn to be a bit more systematic about it....probably not but at this point each year I think never again! And the a year down the line I'm thinking the same thoughts again.
One day eh!
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same here Potters, but this year I don't think any of mine have germinated, even though I have left that area alone, but it is full of allium seedlings, the little darlings.
Maybe Potters
It's not so much that I can't tell the flowers from the weeds but I've got so many weeds I can't get them out without upsetting the flowers
In the sticks near Peterborough
Tell me about it nut! You can hoe because it's not agile enough and if you pick the weeds out by hand, the weeds roots get tangled with the flowers roots.
Nut, maybe I need a crash course in teeny weeny weed identification!
You could try sowing the seeds in seed trays until they are big enough to plant out, then ruthlessly hoeing off any weeds in the bed, then planting out your little darlings
Potters
Another reason I can recognise them is because they're all well beyond the seed leaf stage when I get round to doing anything
In the sticks near Peterborough
I hope you don't mind if i suggest that you do an old method of sowing seeds.
After preparing the boarder for the seeds, lay a bamboo cane on to the soil and press in to the ground. This will make a small depression in the soil for you to lay the seeds in to. Do this at 6in widths until you have covered the area. This will then meam that the seed wiill grow in straight line and you will be then be able to distinguish what is a new seedling and what is a weed
Steve, sounds good if you're sowing, mine have sown themselves.There are many more weeds than there are desirables though
In the sticks near Peterborough