I grow mine from collected seed which I sow in large plastic pots in summer . I don't prick them out ....and they over winter in their pots. Then in spring I turn them out of the pots and plant them as a large clump in the garden....no dividing involved. They look as if they have been growing there for ages and come into flower a few weeks later. This method was discovered accidentally as I was too bone idle to bother to prick them out but it produces brilliant results ! Does anyone else take this kind of shortcut with plants ...if so please tell us all as pricking out can be SO time consuming !
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I grow mine from collected seed which I sow in large plastic pots in summer . I don't prick them out ....and they over winter in their pots. Then in spring I turn them out of the pots and plant them as a large clump in the garden....no dividing involved. They look as if they have been growing there for ages and come into flower a few weeks later. This method was discovered accidentally as I was too bone idle to bother to prick them out but it produces brilliant results ! Does anyone else take this kind of shortcut with plants ...if so please tell us all as pricking out can be SO time consuming !
I do butterfly.
Somtimes I half prick out as well, prick out in little clumps and grow on to plant out.
I'm idle as well
In the sticks near Peterborough
Do sweet williams need a cold winter to flower?
I shouldn't think so. Annuals and biennials are very willing flowerers
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the past I planted lots of them: glorious foliage forever, only one bloomed very
poorly. Bought a potted one months ago, and it is still blooming, but the people
in the nursey might have used some trick to make it flower.
It's posible to overfeed some plants, get lots of leaves, lovely healthy ones, at the expense of flowers. Don't know if that applies to SWs
In the sticks near Peterborough
Should
i keep my seedlings indoors over winter?