Seeding in Annuals for Master’s Week

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Much gardening success depends on getting out there, with a few tools, and puttering. Gardening depends on getting in the zone. Gardening flows. It’s about being with and caring for plants. In managing gardens, often that flow is lost. You spend time trying to teach people who just don’t get it, to get it. One of my favorite tests and lessons of gardeners is to help people understand that rainy days are the best gardening days. I’ve loved these three rainy, cold days because my perennials and annuals love them.

Time to Seed in Annuals

It’s time, now and the next few weeks, to seed in mid season annuals—and take some chances with seeding in summer things too.

Poppies, larkspur and toadflax, seeded in last fall look great now. Perennials are pushing: see the above picture of cold hardy, Crinum Sangria breaking through the lettuce Black Seeded Simpson, which was seeded in the fall. But you can do it again right now.

Seed in to cover dying bulb foliage. Seed in to enhance emerging perennial foliage.

Here’s what’s looking great and a few ideas of things to seed in now, or near them.

Lipstick Strawberry. I seeded in red nasturtium to compliment pink flowers.

Iris Ceasars Brother, Iris bucharica, or Iris japonica—seeded in lime green mizuna.

Amsonia, seeded in emerald green arugula to compliment blue flowers.

Spirea, seeded in yellow wax beans at base.

Notice anything sweet and odd about my seed in list? All of these things are edible! I’m concerned about the division we create between flowers and food. They are all plants, they all need the same thing. Come see my veggies, growing among rows of crinum lily flower this summer – on my farm, flowers and veggies need the same things: GREAT, RICH SOIL, sun, and clean water!

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