Random Thoughts from cool alaskan

Category: Random thoughts from coolalaskan | Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:13 pm

I had such a pitiful garden last year (06); but I was raring to go in February to have a better one in '07!!
I found a website that was offering free tomato seeds; so I thought I'd send in for some.
Any time after the winter solstice (Dec. 21/22) you can plant your seeds in mini greenhouses you make from recycled materials. Then put them
outside in the snowbank until Spring! Living in a small "cramped trailer, I liked the idea of not having trays of sprouts all over the place.

I participated in the NHGC Seed Swap last winter and this spring. I got tons of seeds-mostly flowers. So I had plenty of seeds to sow,

Here's the line up. All my mini greenhouses waiting for spring

Broccoli and Morning Glory bush finally came up!

Ready to pot up,

Poppy seedlings.

"Orange" poppies (that turned out to be red & black)

Winter Sown Hollyhocks on July 1st. Real small,,,

First blooms from a WS seedling. Viola Tricolor AKA Johnny Jump Ups

New garden for WS flowers. I had a kiddie pool in that spot and it killed all the grass underneath it. Perfect place for a new garden!

New flower bed has really grown... Other plants I planted her is sunflower & larkspur.

Moluccella laevis aka Bells of Ireland is also planted in the round garden.

Poppy blooms don't last very long.

Wow! This turned out a lot longer than I expected. Hope nobody nodded off...hee hee
cool alaskan shutting down

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bsewnsew wrote on Fri Sep 21, 2007 1:18 am:

Why didnt you get the Bear to give you a push in the seed planting?/ Ha ha

You did real well..I love poppys even if they dont last longs..

barb

eileen wrote on Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:44 pm:

Love your mini greenhouses!! Hey maybe you should put the kiddie pool in various parts of your yard so that you can have lots of pretty little gardens. Love your Johnny Jump ups and poppies - they're some of my favourite flowers.

Every time I look at you polar bear siggie it makes me smile.

petunia wrote on Sun Oct 07, 2007 3:23 pm:

great pictures coolalasken. Like your container idea. I'm going to start a new project this year and do planting in containers and over wintering them (wintersowing). As long as this works I'll have new plants in the spring.

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