How do I Prepare Datura Seeds for Planting?
redthreaddiy
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Comments (1)Druse - Making More Plants, Viburnum As soon as fruits are ripe -Squash ripe fruits and clean seed. Cover with grit (will allow some light through while keeping good soil contact for the seed - light may be beneficial to germination) and place pots outdoors in a protected spot. Or, clean the seed and give moist warm 90 days, followed by moist cold 90 days, then moist warm again, seed (again barely covered) may take an additional 365 days or longer. The grit is going to help to discourage moss or algae on sowing medium that can sometimes happen when germination is so lengthy. Are you familiar with it - I buy mine at a feed and livestock supply by the pound (chick grit). In a pinch, you can substitute parakeet gravel from the pet supply at your grocery (small boxes), or even fine aquarium gravel....See MoreSoil Preparation for Gourds...How do I do it?
Comments (4)go with mushroom compost or black cow. Home Depot oughta have both of them. try to mix it with your soil to a depth of about 18 inches. If $$$ are REALLY tight, you can create "pots" in the ground. Dig a hole about 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. mix your bagged compost with the dirt you remove. shovel the mix back in (you should now have enough fill to create a "mound" on the top) plant your seeds in the center. Each season, add compost. buy it or make it yourself, but add it. best thing you can do for your soil. I have a red wiggler composting setup going now, and it is doing some WONDERFUL things.......See MoreHow many seeds do I plant in a seed starter kit cell?
Comments (14)Safyre--sometimes it is better to start a new thread rather than adding onto an old one. As for your question, it really would help to know what plants you're talking about. (As to the OP where how many seeds really depend on the plant). Are you talking transplanting into pots indoors, or into a garden. Since Houzz got rid of zone info, where are you at? I'm in Denver, so starting seeds now would mean I can't transplant out until April/May at the general earliest (my veg garden is just in plans right now for seed starting soon). But I have lots of pots indoors for the winter. All are different--I have some newly sprouted chives that I seeded directly into their pots. But I won't start my basil for another month or so, because it shouldn't go out until end of May due to our night temps here....See MoreHow do you prepare your beds for planting?
Comments (10)Hi choxie, I have read in other posts on this forum that some folks put down a few inches of compost and then shredded leaves in the fall and let that overwinter and then plant in that the following spring, so I don't think you will be in trouble with that. I worry way up here in the frozen north that in the spring I will just have a layer of shredded leaves on top that will rob nitrogen as they decompose, but I am not sure that is a worry. I spose I should have added to my original post that last fall we added a few inches of our own compost to our beds. I will do that again after this summer and may try a layer of shredded leaves. Anybody have any thoughts on that? This summer I also plan to mulch with straw after everything is up and growing and then leave that mulch in place for the next year to become part of the soil. I might even but the straw in a garbage can and weed whack it a bit to reduce its size before using as the mulch. Anybody have any thoughts on that plan also? David...See Moredavemichigan
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