Perennials planted

Of all the perennial seeds I collected last fall, I got most of them planted this weekend:  daylilies, hostas, asiatic and oriental lilies, and half of my ricinus seeds.

Here's where we left off on the daylily sprouts, midweek

They were getting too big so I moved them into their own container for a couple weeks while they grow out.
Seven of ten grew, so I replanted a couple new seeds to see if I could get all the cells growing.

These are the ricinus sprouts.
With the small one, the seed shell got stuck to the leaves as it grew out of the soil and rotted the leaves.
Not sure if it's going to grow or not, but it looks like it's still kicking along for now.

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I set the daylily seeds on the soil, and packed them in pretty tight.
Based on my expectation of 50% to grow, and the test where 70% grew, I decided to
plant the seeds in small spaces, close together. 
The sprouts are small enough they can flourish for probably a month before I would need to split them apart.

Here I put the others:  tiger lilies, asiatic and oriental lilies.
The seeds for the oriental don't look very good at all, so I packed them really tight together.
The asiatics I just sprinkled heavily onto the soil. 
My expectations for either aren't all that high.

 

 

 

Cover the trays in plastic bags to seal in moisture so that the trays don't need to be fiddled with until the sprouts arrive.
Not sure for the asiatics, but the daylilies and hostas should be 2 weeks until sprouting.

I didn't post a picture of the hosta container.  I just took a really large container I had previously used for the canna lilies, put down 2" of soil, and then sprinkled the hosta seeds over the soil heavily.  I had easily enough to cover the area, so they were piled on very thick.  Then sprinkled soil on top lightly, watered, and covered with clear plastic to lock in the moisture so the seeds don't dry out.

I had about two-dozen ricinus seeds from collecting in the fall.  I managed to fit about half into a container, similar to how I planted the hostas, but smaller.  Because they are growing tall so quickly, I built a little frame with a tray holder and some wire to prop up the plastic bag I sealed the container with.  It should allow the ricinus sprouts to reach about one foot tall, which should give me a month or more to deal with them.

Received my final seed order.  A few annual flowers--I thought I would need more petunias than I had ordered, and I added a couple other things that I thought would be easy to get rid of.  I also picked up a dozen "Bag o' Blooms" hanging planting bags and some trailers for the hanging bags and pots.