Oh Celene, I'm so sorry to hear about the fire.

Karen

Yikes! Sorry to hear about the house fire but glad you are okay. You have ordered a lot of seeds! Sorry, I cannot help you out with Asparagus verticillatus either.

I got my "pile" of seeds from Jen yesterday! Holy cow, it's a HUGE pile!

Some of the seeds I sowed in vermiculite have already germinated! Plectranthus barbatus (Indian coleus), Dianthus barbatus, petunias, one mystery seed (not the one I posted a question about though), my rhubarb, one artichoke and the cucumbers for the greenhouse.

After seeing everyone's orders I found myself at Swallowtail Gardens (the cats had a gun to my head .. they forced me to do this) and ordered the following:

CALENDULA, SOLAR FLASHBACK MIX
CANARY BIRD VINE
GERANIUM, PINTO PREMIUM SALMON SPLASH
ZINNIA, ZAHARA STARLIGHT ROSE
ZINNIA, ZINDERELLA LILAC

Oh! We got the calendula Solar flashback as well. In fact I just planted some today!

Nice choices, Anne.

Thanks .. I sincerely hope it looks like the pictures.

yeah, I know what you mean!

ooh - that solar flashback is pretty special - please post pictures in the annuals form when they start blooming.

Sure will. I am hoping to take lots more photos and post/add to database this year. I hope...

I just ordered some Calibrachoa Kabloom deep blue and yellow seeds from ebay...figured it would be fun giving them a try

Debating some calendula...not sure if the growing season is long enough for my zone, they like it cool I think

I do wintersow my calendulas. Also I get plenty of volunteers. So learn what seedlings look like so you don't weed them out

Hey all, ok was just working on organizing a list of what I had goin on this year so here it is, some was written for this board and some was just my personal notes, I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience with these either growing inside or wintersowing, in particular on the seeds I have listed at the bottom which are new to me. I'm using Hydrofarm germination station kits for starting stuff indoors, I have 5 kits, 72 cells each, all with domes & heat mats, these kits are cheap and have worked great! I only use gal milk jugs for wintersowing, we go thru a gal in a day and a half here so they pile up quick! And the more I have the more i'm tempted to sow!! I put the gals in milk crates so they are protected and move around well, I have about 16 crates full, so ya around 64 milk jugs, as much as I want everything to germ and grow well, i'm not sure I have space for all of that!!! May need a topsoil delivery to help create some new garden areas! I thought this was suppost to be an easy & cheap gardening method, i'm buying more seeds than I know what to do with and I will most likely need that topsoil delivery!! Hahaha! Is there a seedaholics board here? Am I on it?? Lol, ok here we go...

Coneflower (Cheyene Spirit) indoors- started one and a half 72 cell trays of saved & purchased seed, great germ rate
Coneflower (Sandy Yellow) indoors- started 6 cells of saved seed, all germinated & growing great
Coneflower (Pow Wow Wild Berry) indoors- started 6 cells, 2 germinated, may do better w/ wintersowing-stratify?
Coneflower (Sunset) indoors- about a half of 72 cell tray
Coneflower (Firebird) indoors- a few germinated, still early to tell on rest
Coneflower (white) (wintersown)
Coneflower (old school purple) (wintersown)

Dahlia - started two 72 cell trays of saved seeds from named variety dahlias, I enjoy the suspense & mystery of what type & colors of flowers i'll get!
Dahlia Dandy Mix (want to start some indoors but will direct sow as well)
Cypress Vine (direct sow)
Gaillardia Sundance Bicolor (wintersown - annual here, started indoors 2 out of 6 cells germinated, does better winter sowing I guess, had great success wintersowing last year)
Statice Pacific Mix (wintersown- had great success 2 years ago)
Statice Apricot Beauty (wintersown)

Cosmos Double Click (direct sow)
China Aster Crego Mix (may not use this year)
Aster Perfection Mix (started 6 cells indoors, all growing great)
Chrysanthemum Yellow (not sure, just bought never tried, direct sow maybe??)
Marigold African Crackerjack Mixed (direct sow)
Marigold French Sparky Mix (direct sow)
Petunia Mixed (direct in pots, may start some indoors)

Zinnia Peppermint Stick (wider range of colors than Candy Cane)
Zinnia Candy Cane (Bigger Flowers than Peppermint)
Zinnia Scabiosa Mix (direct sow all zinz)
Zinnia Fruit Smoothie Mix
Zinnia Polar Bear
Zinnia Cherry Queen
Zinnia Carrousel Mix
(have many other zinnias but these are what I intend to grow this year for butterflies & cutting)

Pussytoes White Antennaria Cats Paws (stratify in fridge & starting indoors mid-march)
(For American Lady Butterflies, said to be in CT, Haven't seen any but adding these to see if it helps brings em'!)

Sunflower Italian White
(may not use sunflowers this year, doing lots of herbs that i'll have to put in the spot picked out for sunflower
and they get eaten by something as soon as the blooms are fully open and then I get mad!)
Sunflower Autumn Beauty Mix

Cardinal Flower Red (Lobelia cardinalis)
(hmm not sure, may have wintersowed? didnt keep a good list of what I wintersowed duh,
but the containers are labeled! & burried under 2+ feet of snow right now!)

Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea)(started indoors)
Hollyhock Charters Double Mix (started indoors, growing great!)
Malva Zebrina (started indoors)

Lychnis White Campion (wintersown)
Lychnis Campion Maltese Cross red/orange (wintersown)
Lychnis Arkwrightii Red (wintersown)
New England Aster Blue (wintersown)
New England Aster Pink (wintersown)
Dianthus Sweet William Mix (wintersown)

Bergamot Wild (started 6 cells indoors 100% germ)
Bee Balm Red Mondara Didyma (wintersown)
Bee Balm Spotted White (wintersown)
Anise Hyssop Agastache foeniculum (wintersown)
Red Agastache Heather Queen (wintersown)
Tobacco Nicotiana Variegated (wintersown)
Joe Pye Weed Pink (wintersown)

Butterfly Weed Orange Asclepias tuberosa
Milkweed Sunset/Blood flower Asclepias
Milkweed Cinderella/Carmine Rose Asclepias Incarnata (Red/White) (wintersown)
(forgot which butterfly weeds I wintersowed, tried one indoors w/ no luck)


Catmint (may start some indoors or direct sow)
Catnip (may start some indoors or direct sow)
Yarrow White (started indoors)
Yarrow Red (started indoors)
Lavender (stratification helps, may start indoors, probably will wait until next year)
Sweet Marjoram (started indoors)
Dill (direct sow)
Cilantro (direct sow)
Parsley (starting indoors soon)
Fennel Bronze (start indoors mid-march)
Fennel Florence (start indoors mid-march)
Yellow Rue (For Giant Swallowtails, indoors or ds)
Thyme Lemon (direct sow or start indoors if space allows)
Artichoke Green Globe (stratify in freezer/fridge & starting indoors mid-march)

New / no set plans for at the moment:

Bellflower White Campanula Persicifolia
(24-36" Perennial, says easy to grow!)

Valerian / Garden Heliotrope / Heal All (light pink)
(48-72" Perennial, Cold Stratify)

Pink Winged Loosestrife Lythrum Alatum
(24-36" Perennial, Cold Stratify)

Veronica Speedwell Mix
(Perennial) (12-18") (indoors, don't cover seeds, germ 14-21 days)

Verbena Hortensis Mixed
(8-12") (Annual In CT) (indoors, don't cover seeds, germ 14-21 days)

Milk Thistle Purple Silybum Marianum
(48-72") (germ 10-20 days) (annual when started early indoors/biennial started outdoors)

Sweet Alyssum Pastel Carpet Mix
(Perennial) (3-6")

Alyssum Golden Tuft Basket Of Gold
(Perennial) (6-12")

Phlox Red Drummondii
(4-18" Annual, Fragrant)

Blue Star Sea Holly (taproot- choose good location) (direct sown flower 2nd year)
(Seeds require a warm moist stratification for one month followed by one month of cold moist stratification)

White Mignonette Reseda Alba (Fragrant Annual) (direct sow?)
(Sow at 3 week intervals until early summer for continuous flowering)

I winter sow Sea Holly. Get great germination rate that way. No problems transplanting. It reseeds a lot for me

If you check out the First Wave of wintersown seeds thread you can see pics of my 2013 sowing ridiculousness

jvdubb said:If you check out the First Wave of wintersown seeds thread you can see pics of my 2013 sowing ridiculousness

haha nice I will!

Jason, I'm exhausted and need a vacation after reading your list! Very impressive!

OMG, just when I thought I had pretty much every seed known to humankind after Ella's Piggy Seed Swap on Cubits... apparently not!!

Most of my seeds are veggies, and I planted my onion seeds about a week ago and they are sprouting so I am very happy about that!

I spent about half the day trying to track down a bean that I got on the swap, 'Heilig Boontje' -- finally found that it is also called 'Saint-Esprit à Oeil rouge,' which was already in the database here. (On the downside: I can't pronounce it either way; apparently it translates to something like "Holy Bean," which is close enough for me..)

That's a big name for a bean

Quite an impressive list Jason.

Celene - Very sorry to hear about the house fire, thats one of my biggest fears, and we hear about it way too often even just in our town and state, and it scares the heck out of me, I assume everyone is ok which is good, hope you didn't loose anything that you can't replace, scary stuff