{"id":4129,"date":"2018-03-31T04:37:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2018-03-31T04:37:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T04:37:47","slug":"march-is-going-out-like-a-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/31\/march-is-going-out-like-a-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"March is Going Out Like a Lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>I took an extra day off work this weekend and I\u2019ve got a long list of chores, both garden and non-garden, to finish before Monday.\n

Seed starting is in full swing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve transplanted about 36 blue pimpernels (Anagallis monellii).\u00a0 These are destined for patio pots, garden fill-in, and plant sales.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0\u00a0Image is on Annie\u2019s Annuals <\/a><\/em>website\u2013they are an amazing nursery with lots of awesome and interesting plants.\u00a0 They sell individual plants of annuals, but many of them can be grown on their own, which is what I do!<\/em><\/p>\n

I also have about 50 Dianthus \u201cSuper Parfait Raspberry\u201d seedlings that I\u2019ve potted on.\u00a0 I\u2019ve grown these for patio\u00a0pots, garden fill-in, and plant sales.<\/p>\n

Note:\u00a0\u00a0Image is on HPS<\/a> website<\/em>.\u00a0 The seeds I got from this firm have given me almost 100% germination.<\/em><\/p>\n

I also transplanted about 8 Eccremocarpus scaber seedlings.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to grow these in window boxes and up some trellises, with one in the greenhouse to keep permanently.<\/p>\n

The photo is from Dobie\u2019s<\/a> website, a seed house in the UK.<\/p>\n

Today, I transplanted about 50 monkeyflowers (Mimulus Magic Blotch Hybrids).\u00a0 I\u2019ve always loved this plant family, so couldn\u2019t resist this fun cultivar.\u00a0 Some of them are tiny, but they appear to be strong growers, so I\u2019m hopeful most of them will grow to bloom in patio pots, the garden, and for plant sales (if they grow fast enough).<\/p>\n

The photo is from HPS, who sell these pelleted seeds.\u00a0 There were 250 pellets in the packet, so I\u2019m giving a bunch of seeds away!<\/em><\/p>\n

I also potted about 50 Salvia Lighthouse Purple seedlings today.\u00a0 As with the other plants I listed, these will fill gaps in the garden, patio pots, and hopefully, help fundraising efforts at plant sales.<\/p>\n

$\"Lighthouse$ The photo is from Pinetree\u2019s<\/a> website, where I bought these seeds.\u00a0 They look to be vigorous seedlings!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

There were about 14 seedlings from Chiltern\u2019s Hardy Geranium mix<\/a>.\u00a0 I started these indoors under lights and they\u00a0germinated and grew very quickly.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping there were one or two Geranium psilostemon seeds in there.\u00a0 These seedlings are destined for the Parking Strip garden.<\/p>\n

The photo on Chiltern\u2019s website.<\/em><\/p>\n

After transplanting into soil that was amended with organic plant food and watered with fish poo water from Leon, I noticed the pots were forming fungus all over the top of the soil.\u00a0 To combat this, I sprinkled perlite all over the tops of every cell.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping this will do the trick.<\/p>\n

Previously, I transplanted the Osteospermum, Delphiniums, Chard, Alyssum and Bachelor\u2019s buttons.\u00a0 I moved them to the cold frame, and tiny slugs decimated many of them, but the Osteospermum \u201cAkila White with Purple Eye\u201d transplants\u00a0were okay still, so I moved them back to the greenhouse and helped one tiny slug to migrate elsewhere when I saw it crossing the top of one of the pots with an enlarged stomach full of Osteospermum!<\/p>\n

Photo from Pinetree<\/a>, where I ordered these seeds.<\/em><\/p>\n

I planted sweet pea seeds from brother Tim this week, too, and today planted all the seeds I had been stratifying in the refrigerator, including three packets of Meconopsis betonicifolia and a packet of Digitalis obscura, which I hope to germinate in the greenhouse.\u00a0 These will get planted out in the parking strip garden this fall if any of them sprout and grow big enough.<\/p>\n

Indoors, I planted more seeds, including Salvia viridis\u00a0\u201cPink Sundae\u201d, Lettuce \u201cFlashy Trout Back\u201d, cucumber \u201cDiva\u201d, Agastache foeniculum, Petunia \u201cDreams Mix\u201d, Marigold \u201cBambino\u201d and Oregano \u201cKirigami\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I\u2019ll plant more seeds in the greenhouse and the veggie beds.\u00a0 Stay tuned for an update.\u00a0 I\u2019ll work on getting some good flower photos in the greenhouse and garden, too.<\/p>\n

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I took an extra day off work this weekend and I\u2019ve got a long list of chores, both garden and non-garden, to finish before Monday. Seed starting is in full swing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve transplanted about 36 blue pimpernels (Anagallis monellii).\u00a0 These are destined for patio pots, garden fill-in, and plant sales. Note:\u00a0\u00a0Image is on Annie\u2019s Annuals … Continue reading March is Going Out Like a Lamb<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}