I would broadcast seed in March into a seed bed. They don't like being transplanted.
Thin to about a foot apart. They will flower around July and the pods will form afterwards. It may be September before they are dry enough to use in arrangements.
I have decided to get all the small potted poppies into the ground so i will be cutting the bottoms off the pots and putting straight into my raised bed which has posts at the corners. I will attach some protection to the posts to protect the plants. I will put the big pots with 2/3 plants into the cold frame but im not sure if i should just have 1 plant per large pot???
You've been a victim of your own success Rich! I think I'd do what nut suggests - gently tip out the pots with two or three plants in them and plant them as carefully as possible. Cutting the bottoms is more likely to result in damaged roots. Ideally you would have thinned out the weakest of the two or three you sowed in one pot, but you are where you are. The seeds you've sown straight into the ground will come away when the soil warms up, although you'll lose some. Sow others in March as the others have said.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Poppies transplant fine as potsful as punkdoc says.
what they're no so pleased with is having their roots interfered with. 3 in a pot will be fine as one planting, separating into 3 and planting would set them back.
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Apparently poppies dont like transplanted so i may cut the bottom off the plastic pots and plonk them into a raised bed.....
They don't like being transplanted but if you gently tip the contents from the pot and plant them without disturbing the roots they'll be quite happy
K
In the sticks near Peterborough
I would broadcast seed in March into a seed bed. They don't like being transplanted.
Thin to about a foot apart. They will flower around July and the pods will form afterwards. It may be September before they are dry enough to use in arrangements.
As for speeding them up... pray for Sunshine
Will the 1s in small pots ((2nd pic down)) produce pods in those pots???
small plants produce small flowers and pods. The bigger the plant is before it flowers, the bigger the flower and the pods.
I have decided to get all the small potted poppies into the ground so i will be cutting the bottoms off the pots and putting straight into my raised bed which has posts at the corners. I will attach some protection to the posts to protect the plants. I will put the big pots with 2/3 plants into the cold frame but im not sure if i should just have 1 plant per large pot???
You've been a victim of your own success Rich! I think I'd do what nut suggests - gently tip out the pots with two or three plants in them and plant them as carefully as possible. Cutting the bottoms is more likely to result in damaged roots. Ideally you would have thinned out the weakest of the two or three you sowed in one pot, but you are where you are. The seeds you've sown straight into the ground will come away when the soil warms up, although you'll lose some. Sow others in March as the others have said.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think that maybe you are making things a bit too complicated.
Plant all the poppies outside, without their pots, much less risk of damaging roots.
I find that poppies do transplant fine. I grow a black Opium poppy that I start in modules, and then tip out where I want them.
For other poppies, I just randomly "chuck" the seeds everywhere.
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Punk could you explain'tip'? I scatter poppy seeds in my garden and never see them again apart from the odd one that grows next door..
Do you plant them or just empty them out?
Poppies transplant fine as potsful as punkdoc says.
what they're no so pleased with is having their roots interfered with. 3 in a pot will be fine as one planting, separating into 3 and planting would set them back.
In the sticks near Peterborough