Thanks for this post. I am glad to find it for reference. I had planted some cucumbers 🥒 and zucchini in early August this year (way later than normal!. Now, it’s October 2. The cucumber plants haven’t grown too much still, but the zucchini's now have large plants with the orange “lilies” (blooms) on them, which turn into squash soon.. It’s in the 40s tonight, here in mid-Ohio, and I was worried. , i need to go shopping for a tarp or buckets to protect them for the next few nights. I’d feel sad if they got this close to developing squash, and then were frosted out! Thanks for the advice!

Karen, perhaps you're busy..When you get a chance, please post pictures.. Purple..how on earth do you post a link that leads to a plant in the middle of a paragraph? Does it require a software program? Tiff and Need2. I thought D. Warneckii's color was lime-green. There's so many stripped Dracaenas, at times it's impossible making an accurate ID. Tiff...I got this guy on Ebay, 2009. Another stripped Dracaena, but no variety name. Dracaena is not warneckii, but it's another stripped variety. I love Aralias, but they're very difficult..especially during winter. Aralia is another plant that has several varieties..one reason I can't wait to see Karen's new babies. HD has a few types, but since I kill them, I must pass them up! Aralias know better not to jump in my cart. lol.

Quote from danielJ_209-09(6b): "What problem does pre-germinating solve for you?..." Thanks for the reply. I was thinking the upside for us would be: --- that if we do get a torrential flooding in the days of pre- germination, the seed is still inside and intact instead of flooded out and washed away down the ditch. --- Also, the pre-germinated seeds will have a headstart and take root faster? We can watch the weather and try to choose a shorter window for reseeding. --- I think it'll be easier to rinse the seed inside for those days than to keep it watered outside multiple times in a day. (Even though we don't need to reseed anywhere near the 3 acres, and not all of it is subject to flooding.) No worries, we'll do the proper work of preparing the ground, and of keeping it moist once it's broadcast. Note, I definitely would not try to trowel on a seed mixture as the Original Poster did! I've got a lot more area to reseed than 9ftx12ft! The author at http://homeguides.sfgate.com/pregerminate-grass-seed-40392.html says we can broadcast the pre-germinated seed in a mix. Assuming we CAN broadcast manually or with a spreader, I don't see a downside to pre-germinating. Maybe I should try a trial run of the method with a small amount of seed, and see how well it mixes and then broadcasts in various media. Quote from danielJ_209-09(6b): " Is there any way to install a simple drain from your low spot to the street before you seed? Your lawn isn't going to fare well if it gets submerged or at least saturated with water." Right. The lot does clear of flooding very quickly, though -- usually in a few hours. When we moved here, the grass was established,. It has never had a problem surviving well in the area. Any downpours and flooding situations (say 5" of rain in a few hours) are short-lived and it doesn't take long to dry out. The grass was mistreated, or the original grass would still be healthy. It's not a boggy area at all. We do seem to have had more of these downpours this Summer than normal, so they're on my mind as I think of Fall reseeding. But rain is welcome after some weeks that were too dry. We already have a dry well to help with flooding (about the size of a small car). We originally graded quite a bit, but the bottom of the wide and shallow ditch is not low enough given the sudden downpour or I suppose mainly the ability of the ditches to handle the water downstream from us. Neighborhoods were added; fields were usurped. There's nowhere else for that water to go except downstream, and it has to wait its turn. Luckily it all drains very well as soon as the water system can handle it, and water has never backed up anywhere near the house. I know the bottom of the ditch is higher than our foundation but it's a long gradual slope -- to the unpracticed naked eye it looks pretty flat. That concern about flooding in these areas is the main reason I thought of pre-germination to shorten our risk of losing any new seed before it's established. It's too long a line along the ditch to put in sandbags until grass is established. Who knows, the weather this Fall may be great for reseeding. Just thought we'd lessen the risk. And if there is a recommended mat or even burlap we might use in the most flood-prone areas that could be used over pre-germinated seed, I'll price it out. But I was thinking even a mat wouldn't help with a flood. Worst case, if reseeding doesn't take this time, I could lay sod in a few of those areas. I think plugs would be a lot of work. And overkill -- this is a 3 acre field.

If you haven't seen this previous thread, here's the link to it that might give you some more ideas and what to look-out for in the design.... Here is a link that might be useful: Home-made leaf cart system