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When to sow Cowslip seeds?
"MC Emily" wrote in
: Oh yikes, I hadn't thought it would be that complicated!! I'm not really a 'fiddly' gardener and this seems awfully 'fiddly' to me. How would they go on if they had just fallen 'in the wild'? Do they not do very well? Differences are that: - in the wild the seed is fresh, and appears at the right time for the soaking, chilling, etc to happen automatically. - in the wild you get a lot more seed than just one packet! Most of it dies, gets eaten, etc. But if you buy a packet of seed you expect to get more than one plant out of it. Thus HW's advice: by bagging, chilling, and cultivating in a tray, you make the best of seed that is bound to be a few months old (more germination) and you don't expose any of the seedlings to slugs, snails, etc until they are big enough not to be simply mown down and vanish. If it seems like too much hassle, you'd probably be better off getting some plants instead; they will seed themselves eventually, if the conditions are right, and with luck you will also be able to divide the clumps after a while too. Or you could try buying bags and bags of seed and just sprinkle it: you'll lose a lot, but you should get a few germinating. I also find British native wildflowers very fiddly from (bought) seed, though I've had a lot more luck with stuff that I've just picked straight out of the hedge and bunged into some compost. Victoria |
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