alma47,
Up until last year I would always plant most of my seeds in August, but that is just so hot and miserable. So, I did some experimenting with planting seeds in Oct., Nov. Dec., and even January last year. I had success in all those months. But, the best success I had was planting seeds in early October, that provided me with my best seedling crop ever, not a large percentage of them have bloomed this first year, but it did seem to me that just as many bloomed the first year as did the ones I used to plant in August. The January crop of seeds was hard to judge the success rate because the squirrels kept digging all those up time after time for some reason, when the December planted seeds were just a few feet away and they pretty much left those alone. It has made me ponder whether critters might have certain months when they are less active and certain months when they are most active.
