If they are in the right spot, they'll grow like crazy. I had them in my front flower bed a few years ago- they grew down the front and onto my stones below. They were beatiful! They did overtake the flower bed- I thinnk I had them about 12" apart- they were the flower packs, not seeds.I haven't planted them since then b/c I want all perennials now. Good Luck!~Maria

You can hope it doesn't come back, but if there is crabgrass seed in your soil (odds are good there is), it will come back. Crabgrass is a warm season annual. It germinates when soil temps are above 60 degrees for three to seven consecutive days, flourishes in late spring till frost in fall. It can lay down a lot of seeds in your lawn, that will lie dormant till next year. It is pretty late in spring to seed a lawn now, you would be well advised to wait till late summer, around Sept. 1-15. If you seed now, the only way to prevent crabgrass germination (if it hasn't started yet, not sure of your soil temps in NJ) is by using Tupersan, and using it every 4-6 weeks. It won't affect turf seed, it will however prevent crabgrass from germinating. It isn't cheap however. If you wait till late summer, you can put down a stronger preemergent called Dimension, which will prevent crabgrass germination for about 3 months. For cool season grasses the best schedule is preemergents in late winter/early spring, spot spray weeds in spring and summer, seed in late summer/early fall. If you don't need to seed then another round of preemergents in late summer is recommended to prevent winter annuals like poa annua from germinating.

Hi northerner. Do you want to send me some of that heat wave? We've had cool weather, high winds and lots of rain for the past week. It would be nice to get into the garden but it remains to wet. Things are growing like crazy tho. I heard on the news today that we are in for rain every day or other day for the next week! By the way, I love violets. We are planning to get some and plant them among the trees. Marg

We got deluged in Story county last night, but before that I was covering up every bit of exposed skin I could including draping a dish towel around my neck to keep the skeeters from skeletonizing me (I'm sure the neighbors wonder about me!) and schlepping buckets of water from draining the kids splash pool over to the gardens. I'm cheap. I'm not going to waste all that water. The tomatoes look great and are starting to turn. I can hardly wait for that first BLT. The cukes are going crazy. I have an 8 foot row growing up a trellis and every day I'm picking 10 to 12 of them. I don't have time to make pickles but at least my coworkers aren't complaining yet. The zukes have squash borers so I'm not wasting any more water on them. Don't even go into the herb bed in my yard its mosquito heaven. I don't want to end up with West Nile Virus or something. I'm sure it will be worse now it rained. Any one else growing caladiums? I bought a package of those dried out little bulbs from Wally, stuck 'em in a pot and forgot them. Wow! They LOVE this weather. One of them is even blooming -- looks like a cross between a peace lily and a calla lily. I'll have to try the sweet potato vine in the herb/flower bed. I put them in the planters at the office and they are looking good in there but i hadn't thought to try it at home. mmo