What's Looking Good in March 2025
- Thread starter Zigs
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Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Is that a nasturtium seedling?YAY My first little guy of the season. I should name herView attachment 3266
Jersey Devil
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- Hardiness zone
- 6b
Coleus Only thing I am able to grow from seeds with any success
Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
No, now I'm telling you, get ya some zinnia seeds of the shorter varieties so you don't have to worry about wind blowing them over or nipping out the tops to keep them shorter. They come up from good sized seed in 5 days and are tough as nails. Flower spring-frost too and butterflies crowd all over them.
These I want for next year. I love the buttery color.
You won't expand your horticultural knowledge unless you try. We learn the most when we fail because then we figure out what we did wrong and can avoid that mistake in future.
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- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Jersey Devil
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- Hardiness zone
- 6b
I used to grow an assortment of seedlings every year, but the results never seemed to compensate for the "work". I used to hang grow lights all over the place. At night my house used to look like a glowing radioactive site from outside. I get a lot of different stuff but I just don't start them myself from seeds anymore. Just that the nursery we go to is so huge and they have everything under the sun and are so inexpensive, its easier than caring for seedlings of all kinds for two months when I get an abundance of things so cheap. The coleus I grow from my own plants seed from the previous year. I have about 40 coleus plants taking up my whole one planting area, the poinsettia in another and aloe plants in a third. I should have mentioned about the aloe before I
stated that coleus are the easiest to grow. At one time I had about 50 aloe plants growing all over my house. I had to wind up giving them away to neighbors, or freezing the leafs just to manage them. Annie I do like to try to expand my knowledge a little every year, but by buying different plants every year. I just find it more of a "job" to tend to a bunch of seedlings every day for months.
