I got a free packet of T & M mixed perennial seeds when I bought two other packets of seeds I actually wanted. I have sowed them, but it has occurred to me that when they come up, some will be a total mystery. I'm not sure what the point of such a packet of seeds is, as you can't just chuck them on the ground and presume the resultant plants will be in the right positions, at the right distances. Still, free is my favourite price
Yes you can, and what comes up can be a great delight - you will recognise the weeds when it is necessary - and if you did just scatter, the most likely thing is that the majority of the seedlings will be what you sowed. When we have moved house to a virtually empty garden I have been known to mix a few packets of annuals and just sling them about while I have decided what to do in the longer term - have had some glorious results - so, if you want to - go for it. Of course, you can be much more sensible than me, and sow them in patterns or wavy lines as someone see suggested, does make the weeds easier to see and remove - and when they all bush up you won't see the lines you sowed, just lots of pretty flowers. Must agree about free being the favourite price - I like that!!
the trouble with mixed perennials is most of them are too slow to chuck on the garden to compete with everything else. So you sow them in trays and disturb the slower ones when you prick out the quick ones. But free. You just couldn't not have them could you
I have sown them in pots. What I meant Booker was the fact that a lot of perennials need you to know what their spread will be. I got some plug plant perennials last year, and a lot of them, I wasn't very familiar with, so I put them out at what I thought were reasonable distances (I had details of height, but not spread) and now I have a really congested bed where some things are fighting a losing battle against the 'bullies', and if they were seedlings or small plants a lot would die out, because they would be in the shade of something bigger and faster growing. I am gradually clearing a paddock full of weeds and making new flower beds, which will, next autumn and spring, give me a chance to shuffle things about, and hopefully, my seedlings can be pricked out individually, and put out when they have had a chance to develop a good root system. But it would be useful to be able to identify what the things I don't know actually are, before I place them.
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I got a free packet of T & M mixed perennial seeds when I bought two other packets of seeds I actually wanted. I have sowed them, but it has occurred to me that when they come up, some will be a total mystery. I'm not sure what the point of such a packet of seeds is, as you can't just chuck them on the ground and presume the resultant plants will be in the right positions, at the right distances. Still, free is my favourite price
Yes you can, and what comes up can be a great delight - you will recognise the weeds when it is necessary - and if you did just scatter, the most likely thing is that the majority of the seedlings will be what you sowed. When we have moved house to a virtually empty garden I have been known to mix a few packets of annuals and just sling them about while I have decided what to do in the longer term - have had some glorious results - so, if you want to - go for it. Of course, you can be much more sensible than me, and sow them in patterns or wavy lines as someone see suggested, does make the weeds easier to see and remove - and when they all bush up you won't see the lines you sowed, just lots of pretty flowers. Must agree about free being the favourite price - I like that!!
the trouble with mixed perennials is most of them are too slow to chuck on the garden to compete with everything else. So you sow them in trays and disturb the slower ones when you prick out the quick ones. But free. You just couldn't not have them could you
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I have sown them in pots. What I meant Booker was the fact that a lot of perennials need you to know what their spread will be. I got some plug plant perennials last year, and a lot of them, I wasn't very familiar with, so I put them out at what I thought were reasonable distances (I had details of height, but not spread) and now I have a really congested bed where some things are fighting a losing battle against the 'bullies', and if they were seedlings or small plants a lot would die out, because they would be in the shade of something bigger and faster growing. I am gradually clearing a paddock full of weeds and making new flower beds, which will, next autumn and spring, give me a chance to shuffle things about, and hopefully, my seedlings can be pricked out individually, and put out when they have had a chance to develop a good root system. But it would be useful to be able to identify what the things I don't know actually are, before I place them.
The tall spiney thing in Picture 5 looks like fennel seedling?