Since my flowers only have 2-3 weeks at best before I get rid of them, I have started collecting seeds from them. I still have to figure out where the seeds are located on some of them namely my geraniums. Call me a whack-o or an environmentalist or a farmer...I don't know what?? There is a two-fold reason for this. I haven't ever done this before in my gardening. Normally, I go to Lowe's and a few other places and buy all of my flowers. I have decided that in the spring, Aliyah will have a grand science project. We will start in March planting seeds in trays. By the time 6-8 weeks have passed, I can put them in my garden--hopefully! She has planted before with great results. The difference with this time will be with quit There will be a variety of flowers and on a larger scale. I want to see if we can grow flowers as well as the greenhouse does.
The other reason to do this is of course to save big $$$. If I can get my geraniums to grow from seed, that would save a lot of $$$ since they are more expensive than other annuals.
Whatever does not work or grow well enough, I will just purchase. Now I'm going to have to go to google and figure out where the geranium seeds come from on the flower!
The other plus to this...it will help spring come early for us. Off to find plant information....
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Seeds
Posted by heartsfulloflove at 10:24 PM
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It sounds like a fun project! Do you know that you can propogate your geraniums from cuttings? Just break off the stalk below the leaf and remove the lower leaves, then root in water or plant directly into the soil. Geraniums are just about the easiset flowers to root from cuttings. I think that for the seeds, you can just let the blooms dry on the branch, then plant the dried blooms with the seeds still inside because the seeds are very small. I know of a fantastic place to order seeds, it's called The Heirloom Club, and the seeds are very inexpensive and you can find all sorts of intersting plant and flower seeds.
Here's the link, in case you want to take a look: http://www.ehortus.com/heirloomclub/
I just love growing from seeds and cuttings. Your daughter is going to have so much fun!
Thanks, Mimi! I looked last night and I didn't find a defnite answer on seeds, so thanks for the info!! I will do it!
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