I finally opened up all the winter sewn jugs today. I had about 40 jugs with no signs of life. I will keep watering them for a couple months longer, then recycle the dirt. In all I think I planted about 130 to 140 jugs. This being my first year doing the winter sewing method I don't know if that was a good success rate or not. Some of the jugs only had like 2 or 3 seeds that sprouted & grew. I have planted most but not all of what came up. Some are still to small and would just get lost in the dirt. Others
That will not survive my wimter here will be left in pots and over wintered in my green house which better be repaired by this fall (or heads will roll) still others like rose of sharron and other trees & shrubs have to get alot bigger before going to their forever home somewhere in my yard.
DnD, the different daylilies seeds I got in your Nov seed swap did fairly well and am prepairing their new bed. It will be exciting to see what they produce as most of them are hybrid crosses. So far out of what I grew from seeds only some of the poppies have bloomed. What have the rest of my fellow gardeners been growing?

Colleen, don't give up so fast on those jugs! Some may take two years to sprout! Depending on your weather over winter there may not have been enough warm/cold cycles to stimulate the seeds to grow.

This past December I was tossing jugs from the year before (all unlabeled) & found one with 9 seedlings! Only 1 had sprouted "on time" so I thought the seeds were bad. Not so! Ended up with 100% germination but it took time.

Here is the Ella Dill From you Elena I have to use clay and set them in the driveway for germination to happen ,



Some Red Amaranth from Rick Corey Same Driveway , H -Hot Concrete for germination ,

First nastrium bloom.

Another result happening from some dianthus seeds from DnDs 3rd swap. Not sure if you will be able to see the pot of dianthus with a bloom :cross_finger:

Nice going Colleen
I cannot keep those growing here .

I gave up on these , however it may be a wild volunteer , I think it is a phlox but it is small and blooming early , very early , if it is About a foot tall

Jim looks like phlox to me. But then I am basing it on the fact I litterly have 1000s of them growing in my front yard.

DND, got my daylily seedlings planted in their bed. I really messed up when planting though and accedenrly dropped the name tags when I planted em or at least the tags that mentioned the crosses

They will grow and bloom anyway . When it happens to me that is all I wit
Zinnia , red amaranth . Tithonia , all up and going , fleabane wild blooming everywhere
Finally got a wild sunflower up

Your bed looks good , room to grow

My snapdragon Aromas Red Spice should bloom any day now. Finally got them planted in the ground yesterday.

Be nice to see Elena ,

only blooms here
A daisy and sneezeweed with wild Coreopsis

Uh-oh, Colleen! Hehehe

When they bloom, email me pictures. There's a chance I might be able to help you figure out which cross particular daylilies were from. Did you, by chance, happen to keep seedlings from the same crosses together? That would make it even easier and more accurate; but if not, I can still try to give you educated guesses based on the blooms. ;)

DND. I did plant each pot together somewhat. Plus I still have the tags to let you know what I planted. It would give you a place to start right

Here's another wintersewn seedling that's blooming. There is a tag by it that says viola. Is that what this is? I have never grown them before

Yes, it is a viola (or a pansy if the flower is pretty large). Very pretty! Most of my pansies haven't even started to bloom yet and it's June! This has been one weird Spring!

Colleen, just to reiterate Elena's confirmation, it is definitely a viola--or possibly a pansy, as she said. It's a pretty one! I like the red color.

I have violas here, too, but they are the Johnny Jump-Up variety and have been blooming for over a month. They were the first thing blooming this year, by far. (Before my dutch hyacinths, tulips, and forsythia.) My Johnny Jump-Ups had some competition this year....I planted a bunch of irises in that bed and both the irises and the Johnny-Jump-Ups are doing REALLY well...the JJU's are so TALL!...and they seem to be helping the irises out by soaking up any excess water and some of the nutrients. I lost half of the irises in my other bed, but none of the irises in the bed where the JJU's were planted. (There are other variables that might have impacted the irises success rate, but I believe the JJU's were a major contributor.)

Elana & DnD. My record keeping leaves alot to be desired but I still enjoy the flowers

Agoo,

That looks like the Arkwright Ruby viola. I'm growing them this year too. I tend to like the claret viola better though. Mine looks just like yours.

Karen. Now if I get seeds from it, I know what name to put with the seeds.

That is a pretty flower Too hot here most of the year for those ,
My only failed result of seeds I offered ware the Tiny Tim Tomatoes , none sprouted , I find that odd because when I tested them a few weeks after drying them a couple sprouted ,
I got about 30 to 50 % germination from my zinnia seeds , Tithonia had a good Germination rate
I am going to try some late Tomatoes ,
Lots of greens I did not get planted will have to wait until fall ,
Do have a red Erigeron , 3 white Swan Coneflowers about a foot tall .
the dill
Amarath
A couple tomatoes ,
Rudbeckia ,
Celosia
Marigolds ,
White Milkweed ,
half a dozen types of Daylily
Two types of Poppy
A Beard'Tongue
Zinnia
I got three smooth blue aster to grow of many seeds Same with red erigeron ,
3 types of Morning glory of four from here . all growing .
Pictures August and Sept . should be interesting
I forgot the Lupine

some I have growing and lost , some are still planted and are good but not growing
Something Cheerful perhaps