One of my favorite seeds to collect this year has been Jewelweed seeds that I've been grabbing with my mom. It's so ridiculous and hysterically funny watching for my moms reaction when she goes to touch one. Kind of the plant equivelant to "Operation". You know, I'm surprised there arent more insect casualties surrounding Jewelweed...those pods have some oomph!

Hey Cindi !! I just now saw what I believe to be nearly 20 tiny jewelweed seedlings, each with 2 leaves or maybe they are cotyledon leaves, and each seedling no more than an inch tall. Whenever it stops raining I'll try to get a closer look at those leaves. I don't remember what the first leaves looked like last year. I'm confident they are jewelweed seedlings based on where they are located and the leaves don't look like anything else emerging right now. You might recall that I popped a few seeds into a tray specifically to make it easy to remove to send to you. Also, there are way too many that germinated too close together in the ground. I wonder if it's too early to try to move some of those for more appropriate spacing. I need your thoughts about what to do next. Seedlings are always a challenge for me. I tried to figure out how to send you a private message without success in figuring out how to do it. Maybe you could send me a private message. Perhaps we could devise a plan together about when and how I should proceed. Maybe more than one batch of seedlings should be mailed on several different dates to allow for unexpected but inevitable disasters. Do you think the root should be encased in a fist full of mud? The husband brought covid home 3 weeks ago, because he cannot resist going to a party during a pandemic. However, I don't mind sleeping for a couple of weeks and losing weight. I've been trying to catch-up with chores over the last 3 days, so seeing those seedlings is very exciting and I feel on top of the world despite the gloom of being faced with some dead-looking plants after that spell of arctic cold weather we experienced this winter. Hope you are well, Betty

Waaah...Yes..it's cold again. That's why I always hate when the weather man sounds so chipper talking about a warm up. I know it ain't over til it's over. Last year was the one freak continuous early warm Spring that I've seen in my 44 years living here. I have a lot of sprouts from WSing, though I'm not sure why. I have about 50 of 250 containers and I'm rather surprised. I even checked today and found that some Zinnias have sprouted sometime between Monday and today. That means they sprouted even though we had a windchill of 14 degrees the other night! Granted, those Zinnias are getting my utmost coddling. I discovered I can't live without them in my yard.

bd1susan, I haven't forgotten about you. I am trying to figure out how to send a private email so I don't have to post my address on the board but can't figure out how. I had seeds collected and drying in my greenhouse and some rodent got by the cat and found it's way into them so I collected some more and they are drying in the house. Can you send an email to me at carhebert@rogers.com so we can exchange mailing addresses? Thanks.