like poppies, snapdragons etc. How do you guys do it? I just sprinkled them over in the soil last year and nothing came up. I think they got washed away by Seattle rain. Or they might have come up elsewhere and I might pulled them out because I thought they were weeds. For larger seeds, I always sow indoors(coffee filter paper method)and later transplant them. But for the tiny ones, I don't know if they will survive the transplant. Any suggestions will be appreciated. TIA Tina.
Just throw poppy seeds out where you want them to grow and don't cover them up.The snapdragons just plant very shallow.
We just threw out our poppy seeds in some scratched soil and waited....they did come up but they can tend to get drowned in the heavy rains..try again and again it is worth it.
Hiyah Tina, Two kinds of poppies get planted in my flower garden--annual poppies that blow-in and the perennial poppies (orientals) that I raise in the house then plant out after Mothers´ Day as a young plantlet. I don´t know which ones you are trying to plant. The annuals I broadcast over some newly cleared soil in the spring (sometimes early winter) and rake them lightly. Sowing them on newly broken ground seems to be the most important factor. If I broadcast a hand full of seeds sometimes not all of them will come up I do not know why I sometimes get poor germinating percentages. I get so many blow-ins that I rarely plant wild poppies anymore. As for the snap dragons-- I sow them on top of newly cleared and finely raked soil in the early spring (jan to march), rake them over and leave them. I have sown them a little later too and they did just fine. But like Gartdenmama says---just keep sowing them. Don´t sowe the whole pack at once, hold some back for re-attemts. Onr further note--If you are tryiong to grow the type of poppy called, `The California Poppy`, of which there are several varieties, I would rake the soil bed where you intend to plant them to a fine tilth before sowing. I have not done this and the result was that I sometimes did not get even one plant that germinated. I would also cover them very thinly with compost or vermiculite after scratching them in lightly.
Thanks so much! I don't know what kind of poppy seeds I have. I got them from a out of town friend. I am going to ask him though I don't expect him to know either He just plucked the seeds off the plants (they have bright red flowers) and gave them to me. I have tons of the seeds so will try them indoors and outdoors. Obviously, will let you all know how that goes.
Tina...if those bright rede poppy seeds that you got are the wild poppy, they may well die if you transplant them. All poppies except the permanent ones do not often survive a transplanting; however, i9f you can plant the plug without disturbing the roots, you may well have success. Good luck.
