jimard8 said: The last of some of mine Gone after the third frost in a row night before last , Had a few reds that were nice this year , ZenMan , love the special Zinnia ..
Hello JIm,
Great zinnia pictures. So, are you saving seeds from any of your zinnias? I will be busy saving seeds from some of mine today and tomorrow. Friday a serious cold front is scheduled to roll in here, with some possible precip, so my guess is that I will be doing some indoor zinnia prep work then. This freaky warm Fall has kept me busy working outdoors when I would normally be setting up my indoor zinnia project. But I am getting a head-start on next Spring's outdoor work, so it is all good.
In previous years I have usually had some serious damage to my zinnia seed-heads from seed-eating birds, like finches and such, but last year I put up a bunch of pinwheels in my zinnia garden to see if the Sun flashing off of them would scare the birds, and it
seemed to work. But it could have been just a coincidence. So this year I repeated the pinwheels thing, using even more pinwheels, and once again --
no significant zinnia seed damage from birds.
Once again, it could have been just a coincidence. But you can bet that next year the pinwheels will be up again in numbers. They are much easier to do than string up bird netting.
ZM
