Remeber To Label and Dont Let Your Mum Weed For You!!! (Bedding Plants in General)

Member Name: skybabes

Product:	Bedding Plants in General
Date:	12/08/01 (114 review reads)
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Advantages: flowers

Disadvantages: you can make mistakes!

I bought my own home last year,and the garden was in a very sorry state,so wellies and spade at the ready I decided that I would by the next spring have my garden tidy and ready for planting.

I have a greenhouse which I was so excited about using ,so down to Wyevale in the spring i went and bought all the seeds I could find.

Ohhhhh the joy at having dirty finger nails and creeping in the greenhouse every morning sooo quiety as to not disturb the seeds.Day after day in i creeped as if they wouldn't grow if they heard me...

At long last up they popped...Sunflowers,tomatoes,nastursuims,sweetpeas all neatly in thier little trays,and marigolds already sown straight into the soil.

When the seedlings in the greenhouse were big enough I put them outside to "get them tough",or as they would say in the Blue Peter garden slot..."harden them off".

Then disaster struck! it rained and well this is my tip....DO NOT USE A PEN THAT WASHES OFF ON YOUR PLANT TRAY LABELS(you forget what they are)

So yes i got confused,I knew what the nastursiums and sweet pea seedlings looked like anyway but the sunflowers were a mix of dwarf and giant.I thought that i had guessed right when i planted them on into my borders but now I have an odd display of triffid like marsian yellow things that are great to hide behind your kitchen windows and peer at the neighbours from behind.

Actually they are great and are getting on for 8 foot tall now , but due tp poor pen technique,in totally the wrong place in the garden.Very hard to tie up(its been windy and I'm only 4ft9),but their yellow faces are always smiling.The beauty of them is that they last for so long,even when other flowers start to fade and bees,birds and butterflies like them.Ohhhh and you can eat the seeds too!!!

The marigolds got weeded by my dear mother who while I was away with my husband decided she would do us a favour to help with the gard
en,out of 60 we have 3 remaining!!!She also watered my "throwing away pot" which was full of weeds....but ermmmm....looking lurrrrrvly when i came back with my husband...oh dear!

Sunflowers though are great,you have alot of comments from nosey neighbours that they cant see in your kitchen anymore and the children love to measure them,you just have to make sure they are well staked with tall enough sticks and not in a windy place.

Try them next year kids really do love growing them and they are easy to grow. And keep well intentioned mums away from the weeding.

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