Ooohh, that sounds painful, Terese!

Kathleen, I did WS them. It worked well, much easier than starting them indoors.

Well I'm thinking of WS the petunias next year the girl up the street and I have decided I am starting annuals later next year because we are always late getting them in the ground anyway so it may work out perfect for us but how was the germination rate should I plant more to get what we want? Sounds like the germination rate might be good on them.

Poor Bud Terese and your check book! Won't be so heavy to carry it around now :)

I was really disappointed with my annual salvias this year that I dearly loved in the past they aren't suppose to need much water and watered them and still they didn't do very good don't think I will get any seeds from my black and blues this year and was really disappointed in the navajo reds they are just now getting bushy the plants stayed about the same as I bought them all summer and now they are finally growing guess it's the weather it is starting to turn a little cooler right now, not a lot but some.

No rain here for at least two months now Neal hope you have had more rain than we did at least I made use of all the soaker hoses I have been collecting all of this time and haven't had to really use them lol

It's been very dry here the last month or so too. We had decent rainfall most of summer, but in mid August it cooled down and dried up.

I grew all my Salvias in containers this year, and it seemed they needed a lot of water. Of course, I did have the containers rather crowded, but I did think they'd take it without wilting so easily.

I WSd 3 containers of Petunias, some saved from 'Laura Bush', an heirloom selection, some saved from lavender large flowered hybrids, and some pelleted purchased seed from the swap. None of the pelleted seed germinated, but several of each of the saved seed did, especially 'Laura Bush'. The hybrids reverted to some heirloom looking ones and 1 dark purple.

I think with Petunias, I'm just going to pick up a few Wave types from the greenhouse and grow them in containers. Now that I've tried a few, I want to have them cascading all over the front porch. They'll hide ugliness there really well, LOL.

Well there goes that idea Guess I'll be planting them downstairs again.

I forgot to use any crystals in my pots this of all years that I should have so figure part of it is my fault!

I got two blooms off of three of my dahlias they are history and went to check Lisa's out up the street she planted hers in the ground and isn't home a lot to water and they are beautiful and huge bigger this year than in the past few years go figure lol