Comments on: Burning Questions – Sowing Seeds

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:05:08 +0000

How exciting. My daugther is made about flowers and growing stuff. we might have to give this a try.

By: CabrissiTea

CabrissiTea — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:42:59 +0000

I think I remember there was a good bit about growing luffa on Down To Earth (http://down—to—earth.blogspot.com/)

With the bergamot and cone flowers (assume you mean Echinacea?) store them in the fridge and just before planting pop them in the freezer for a week or two, then plant them. In the US the seeds are shed direct into the ground after flowering but don’t pop up till after winter. Other things to check if you’re already doing that would be soil type, acidity and sowing depth being too shallow/too deep?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:50:18 +0000

I so wish I could help but as a novice gardener myself, I don’t even know what cone flowers, bergamont or luffa are.
I love the idea of using your loo rolls to plant the seedlings though – a new one for me.