What beauties!!!! I love annuals too, I use them for filler plants and for my borders in my perrenial beds. I love them all but I really like the new waves, impatients, and the ganzia's. I tried the mini petunias but didn't have luck with them. Keep up the good work!!! Marsha

The established perennials and self-sown annuals/perennials are doing awesome in the garden, it's just some of the wintersown stuff that is lagging behind. The corn is really starting to pick up again, but now I see slugs have taken a liking to the lower leaves. I'll have to crush up some egg shells tomorrow and scatter them. Some of my peppers have already starting setting fruit...especially the Bolivian Rainbow, but all the peppers were started indoors...the Jalapeno are the other ones so far. Tomorrow will be 85 and then Sat-Mon will be mid to upper 90's...that oughta help LOL! Fran... wishing you a successful surgery tommorrow and fast recovery!! I do know annuals will force flowers if planed in small containers, however these were all planted in the ground long before they filled any containers with roots. I plant everything out when they are in the seed-leaf to 2nd leaf stage no bigger :) ramazz, Amaranthus are one of the earwigs favorites up here. Mo_girl, Nastutium usually do awesome here, but this year just sucks, my neighbors are doing very nicely and her's came up the same time as mine, but she direct sowed them and put tall cups over them. medontdo, If you talking about potting mix (MG it sounds like) and they are in containers, the slow release fertilizer stretches about as far as you water...so if you need to water every day vs. every 2 weeks, ect. it's used up much faster. Tiffy, Are you seriously growing Scotch Thistle?? Here is a link that might be useful: Scotch Thistle

I just got all my fuschia & geranium starts at Freddy's yesterday. They are awfully small. I think I would let them get a little bigger before planting in the ground. Mine are all going in hanging baskets that will be protected on my porch.

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