I've put in two 15' x 6' raised beds for the seedling crop and I'm glad they're in now so that the soil can settle, With all this rain, there should be no problem in settling the soil!
During the rainy days I'm going to start cleaning out the seed. My garage looks fairly ridiculous right now as there are bags of seed heads of not only Semps (140 and counting!!) but also Helenium, sedums and asters all drying and waiting to be cleaned and stored. (The irises and daylily seeds are already planted and the daylily crop is already germinating!) I'll get all the pot labels ready and record all the successful crosses in my notebook. I code each of these crosses with a number/ letter system. The letter is the season and the number is the cross #. So the C group is all the seed from my third season here in OR (I would run out of letters if I went back to '64!) and C26 would be the 26th cross. If I number any seedlings from that group they are labelled with numbers so the first seedling is C26-1. That allows me to spot any siblings of that plant although at this point I don't remember the numbers although I do remember A2 as 'Killer' X self and A5 as 'Jungle Shadows' X self because they were good crosses and I had fewer crosses back then.
Kevin
