I'll be sowing mine this weekend, on indoor window sills. i'll be doing one batch of white (purity) one red (rubenza - saw it at Wisley last year .....lovely colour), antiquity (grew it last year and liked it, although it is quite a small plant) and a picotee one (sweet sixteen, I think). I always pot on and pinch out several times before planting out early June
Haven't sown a single seed of anything yet. We'll be away for the first week of April and Possum, who will be manning the fort, is not a good seedling sitter.
Maybe I should sow this weekend and hope they'll grow big enough to cope for a week if I can rig up an automatic spray of some sort. What do you think?
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I would wait until you return obelixx - I am sure that your seeds will catch up after a few weeks - better that than to plant them now and find they haven't survived your trip away.
wow, if mine look anything like those i'll be delighted, direct sowed last year & got about 3 pathetic flowers..so far this year got pathetic seedlings!!!
I sowed 'Candy Stripe' in my cold greenhouse today, in a non-heated propagator. Very nice flowers, free with either GW or Gardens Illustrated, I forget which, then I saved the seed last year. Cosmos seeds are easy to save.
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I'll be sowing mine this weekend, on indoor window sills. i'll be doing one batch of white (purity) one red (rubenza - saw it at Wisley last year .....lovely colour), antiquity (grew it last year and liked it, although it is quite a small plant) and a picotee one (sweet sixteen, I think). I always pot on and pinch out several times before planting out early June
This is antiquity (bottom left) and sweet sixteen (top) from last year - romping away with geranium Rozanne
What beautiful photos all
Very inspiring.
I've never pinched out but might experiment with a few this year to see.
I sowed mine 3 weeks ago in a heated propagator in a cold greenhouse. They are up and running. I always pinch them out.
Haven't sown a single seed of anything yet. We'll be away for the first week of April and Possum, who will be manning the fort, is not a good seedling sitter.
Maybe I should sow this weekend and hope they'll grow big enough to cope for a week if I can rig up an automatic spray of some sort. What do you think?
I would wait until you return obelixx - I am sure that your seeds will catch up after a few weeks - better that than to plant them now and find they haven't survived your trip away.
Cosmos will certainly catch up, I sowed some in June once on Monty Dons advise.
I sowed some yellow and orange ones today.
wow, if mine look anything like those i'll be delighted, direct sowed last year & got about 3 pathetic flowers..so far this year got pathetic seedlings!!!
I sowed 'Candy Stripe' in my cold greenhouse today, in a non-heated propagator. Very nice flowers, free with either GW or Gardens Illustrated, I forget which, then I saved the seed last year. Cosmos seeds are easy to save.