Well, change can be a challenge at times. Ever the eager gardener, an article posted spoke to a different way to plant seeds for spring germination. Some seeds need cold, rain, snow, and solar/lunar cycles to initiate their growth. Instead of refrigerating and/or planting in the ground, hoping the seeds germinate, gardeners may plant them in traditional pots leaving them out in the elements. In their natural state, seeds will become seedlings when the moment is right. Unless some critter eats the seeds or they wash away. Also, gardeners do run the risk of plucking them as immature seedlings mistaking them for weeds. This method of potting and leaving out could reduce uncertainty somewhat.
So, I did it. I gathered the seeds, soil, and pots. Here they are set out behind the blueberry bush for the winter. To say there is doubt would be fair. We have had a mighty windy soaker storm push through for hours now. Did they survive this deluge? Are they laying low for months and months only to green up next May or June? Can this erstwhile gardener deal with the uncertainty and let nature be?
In the pots are Penstemon, cornflower and hyssop.
To be continued….
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