After having my wintersown stuff blown to kingdom come last week, I tried to replant those tiny seedlings. Only 4 rud cherry brandy have survived (the heavy rains this week didn't help any). Most things are still in seed leaf stage.
The penstemon smallii are still tiny, haven't grown at all, but they have survived. And the tossing around and mixing up the soil has made a few more germinate yesterday. Again, tiny, barely visible.
I threw away the whole tomato attempt and re-sowed new seeds last Saturday. The first 2 sprouted yesterday.
Liatris survived relatively unscathed, but isn't doing much of anything. Still at cotyledon stage, not all have even dropped the seed coat yet. Ditto echinacea white swan.
As usual, alyssum is doing best. They have several true leaves and are ready to plant out. Unfortunately, I don't have the beds ready to plant yet. (still yanking volunteer larkspur and nigella) but I made a lot of progress on one bed yesterday.
Other things don't seem to be doing much, not showing much growth after a rather dreary, wet week. It's supposed to be in the 70s this week, and mostly sunny and dry, so hopefully they'll make a little more progress.
Usually at this point wintersown seedlings, while not growing much above the soil, do continue to develop nice healthy roots. Hopefully I'll see a little more leaf development above this week from the sunshine.
Karen
