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Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year?
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Posted by LMDW 3 MB (My Page) on Fri, Oct 21, 05 at 14:47
| Mine are the following:
1. Orange cosmos - grew to 6' this year, brilliant colour; very striking
2. Lavatera - pink (white also grows well but isn't my favourite flower colour)
3. Four o'clocks - I have pink and yellow solids and broken colours
4. Morning glory - purple this year, but frost kills them before I harvest the seeds every other year
I'm wondering about others' faves to get ideas for trades or purchases etc. I prefer direct resowable annuals - though I do sometimes start them indoors depending upon how many perennials I'm attempting . . .
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RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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- Posted by marric Z5b Ontario (My Page) on
Fri, Oct 21, 05 at 16:12
| I like Asarina and Convolvulus. Other than those 2, I like morning glories, calendula, four o'clocks, balsam and lavatera. I sow the asarina directly into the containers they will be growing in. The rest are sown directly into the garden. Marg |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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| bachelor buttons and poppies. |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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Salpiglosis-
Hibuscus Sabdariffa-
Daturas-
Coleus-
Nicotiana-
Sunflowers-
Salvia 'Coral Nymph'
Are my favorites- but to Winter Sow- not dorect sow-
Julie |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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| Calendulas and California poppies...they are self-sustaining pretty much forever, it seems. |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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California poppies (early bloom when winter sown!)
then I direct seed and those continue until frost.
I do the same with white alyssum.
Zinnia 'Dreamland' from ParksSeed...seed outdoors and 6-7 weeks there are blooms. ( I think this is a hybrid,yes? never collected seed)
By July+early august, plants are 2 feet;3 feet by sept.(max height)
Sweet peas...plant when ground thawed(here april21ish), bloom early July. Never collected seed...is this what you want?
I'll have to try Calendulas! Honestly! |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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| Hi there! This year I am trying a direct sowing /seeding project on my farm. Tired of baby sitting seedlings in the basement for months! Blue flax has been successful for me in a previous house. My list includes,poppies various,cosmos,calendula,blue flax,shoo fly plant,columbine,feverfew,chamomile. If you want to include a veggie, try yellow pear tomatoes from william dam seed co. We planted them 2 years ago and are still ripping out seedlings every spring ( to my cooking husbands dismay). |
RE: Favorite annuals for harvesting and direct resowing each year
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| In my garden I have had self-seed: blue flax, nicotiana, marigolds, nigella, morning glories, sweet william, sunfowers, pansies (and violas) and columbine, off the top of my head. Out of these, only marigolds and nigella self-seed abundantly enough that I would never bother to plant them or save seed. I just shake the seed heads approximately where I want them, when they are ripe in the fall. |
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