It rather depends how well they grow under your conditions. Gleam hybrids are a semi-trailing Nasturtium. They can get quite long, ie several feet, and root along the vines if they are happy. In my climate they produce flowers continuously until frost and self sow. Orange is the most vigorous colour so I tend to remove quite a few of those and try to steer them towards the mahogany, red and yellow tendency. When you make a salad only add the flowers just before serving because they bruise easily and go soggy in the dressing. You can eat the leaves too but they taste different from the flowers - more peppery and less sweet. I am wondering if yours have enough light since 8 inches is rather tall for a seedling. Any chance of a picture?

Night and Day is a blend, as oilpainter said. I saw packets of them in a local store yesterday. The reason companies offer a blend is because some customers prefer that. It is often cheaper to buy one mixed packet than two or more packets of separate colors. With a premixed blend, you know the plants will bloom at the same time and look good together. There's another nasturtium mix I've seen called "Caribbean Cocktail" that has at least three colors together, and "Alaska" is usually offered as a mix of colors. The downside of buying a blend is that you sometimes need to plant the entire packet to get all of the colors in the mix. If you only plant a few they may be all one color.

Nasturtiums and 4 o'clocks are never a problem for me to WS. I put them out around April 12th-15th and they start germinating around 5/1 and just keep germinating through the end of May. Now sweet peas are another story. Until last year my germination rate on sweet peas, whether they were WS or direct sown is in the zero to 3 seedlings, if I'm lucky. No matter what I did with the seeds, nick them and soak them, soak them and sow them, just sow them, those where my results. BUT Last year I purchased 2 kinds of sweet peas, snoopea and elegant lady and got 2 sets of different instructions from TM seeds. On line it said to surface sow the seeds and on the packets it was cover with 1 inch of soil. Well, the only thing I never tried was surface sow the seeds. So figured, what the heck, one last shot. Soaked the seeds overnight and Surfaced sowed the seeds, just pressed them into the soil and left them on the top and Low and Behold, out of 25 seeds of each kind, I got 25 seedlings. Talk about being shocked. So this year, I sowed more snoopeas, elegant lady and added streamers and high scent and did an experiment. Snoopeas and elegant lady where soaked in water overnight and surfaced sowed, and all the seeds germinated into wonderful seedlings. With the high scent and streamers that say to cover with 1 inch or so of soil, I soaked all the seeds overnight and sowed have the seeds according to the packages and the other half where soaked overnight and surface sowed. 25 high scent seeds soaked and surfaced sowed all germinated, the 25 seeds soaked and sowed as directed with soil on top, only 4 seeds germinated as of this morning. 25 streamer seeds, soaked and surfaced sowed all germinated, the 25 seeds soaked and sowed as directed with soil on top of seeds, only 3 germinated. So from now on, all my sweet pea seeds will be soaked overnight in water, then surfaced sowed. No more soil on top of them. Oh, the sweet peas seeds, all 4 kinds where sowed on 4/12/10 and germinated between 4/25 and 4/29. Fran

I think I know where my problem is on other spots in my garden. The one where I covered with black insect screen went very well. However, the other spots that were just plain dirt, I still don't see anything at all. I was thinking of lightly spreading peat moss on top of the direct sow seeds. Maybe, that will help keep the bed moist. What do you think? Or maybe, I'll mow today and once the grass blades dry next week or two, I'll use them instead of peat moss. Thanks for the pictures! That really helps me a lot!