March Cut Flower Annual Seed Sowing

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Its the middle of March and a month since I started annual seed sowing in the greenhouse for the cut flower garden this year. Catch up this week with what flower seeds I have germinating, what I am potting on, did I get any annual plants through the winter months and are any planted outside in the flower patch?
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[@maryruud9566]

Love your videos, Catherine! We have a winter snow storm blowing through here in Minnesota, so looking at your garden waking up and the abundance of plants in your greenhouse is especially lovely. Like you, I had less than stellar germination on my bupleurum and will need to start another tray. The only new plants I'm growing this year is a burgundy colored Sanguisorba and Cloud Grass, which I think will be nice to tuck into flower arrangements.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much for watching form Minnesota. I hope the spring gets started for you soon after some more wintry weather. We had a one off very sunny day which was lovely and then the temperatures have dipped again and back to rain! However the garden is waking up which I always love to see. The excitement never fades of seeing all the new perennial growth and seedlings under way. Cloud grass I absolutely love and the burgundy sanguisorba will be a great addition in your arrangements x

[@carololiver5315]

Thank you and look forward to all your videos

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much, it has been lovely being able to get a few videos out again since the New Year.

[@clairegill7891]

Great video thank you 🌸

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you ☺️

[@lilwilliams7277]

Hi Catherine, great to see you have good germination. I must give direct sowing a go, I’ve never tried. Thank you for sharing.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Direct sowing can be great if the conditions are right as you can then skip some of the steps you always have to do indoors such as potting on and hardening off. Thanks for watching 😊

[@user-ui5tq6mc9p]

Hi Catherine. Henry from Airth here. I’m really champing at the bit to be getting started with my Cosmos and Sweet William seeds!…youre off to a bit of a flier yourself! Hope the family are thriving also!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you we are all doing well, good luck with your seed sowing. Cosmos is next on my list to get started once I can get some room on the heated propagating bench! I have just got some statice germinating this week and just waiting on some of these perennials I am trying.

[@MyPlantWorld]

good job dear friend

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you very much.

[@ginapentecost206]

Thank you for the catch up Catherine, I've never been able to get Buplerum to germinate I have followed directions on the seed packet but not been successful. I thought I'd try two other varieties that I liked the look of and not grown before Eryngium Miss Wilmott's Ghost and Bells of Ireland absolutely no sign of anything planted 14th Feb cold stratified etc. (maybe I need a little patience?) I get so excited when those tiny little seeds germinate hard to believe the size of the snapdragon seeds and how glorious they are when they flower. Good luck with all your little ones.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

I think you do need to have patience for these type of seeds. Often when I am at the stage of giving up and pretty much abandon the seed tray that is when they start popping up. Bells of Ireland for me are especially like that where they seem to come up the less I look after them! I hope yours do germinate but it can take a couple of months.

[@cheriedodd9358]

Hi, that's great news with direct sowing! When you put your seedlings in the glasshouse over winter, how often do you water them? At the moment Im direct sowing the autumn hardy seeds, but thought I'd also try in the greenhouse, but not sure about drying out over winter ?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hi, that is a good question. I would say from my own experience don’t overwater. I probably check on my greenhouse ones once a week over the winter. If the soil is in any way damp I don’t water but if drying out would give them a little water round the base of the seedlings and not on the leaves. I have lost seedlings in the early days of flower growing in the winter greenhouse due to too much watering!

[@rhodahowie7636]

Great to see how well things have got through winter , its been so different from last year. Could I please ask where you get the cell trays from. They look a good size. Thankyou

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, yes a very different winter to last year. I didn’t grow tulips for the first time ever this season but I am wondering how everyone has got on with them with such a lack of cold over the last few months. But I am glad to have got some hardy annuals through. The cell trays I think I got at gardening naturally. It was a few seasons ago but I am sure they still do them.

[@rhodahowie7636]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Cut down on tulips this year , so far so good ! Hoping that having them in old fridge until a late planting will make up for lack of cold weather. Glad to have a few over wintered rannuncs this year tho. Thanks for info re. trays, will go and have a look.

[@RainbowCurveCostuming]

I managed to get some cornflowers and foxgloves through the winter but my cornflowers are very leggy would it be advisable to cut them back a bit? not having much luck here in ireland with slugs and germination this year so far. I better put another batch on.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much for watching 😊 Do you think the wet weather this winter is making the slug and snail damage worse? I think you could pinch back your cornflowers to make for stronger plants if they are getting a bit leggy. They should be good to go in the ground soon once hardened off.

[@emmaboyd6937]

So pleased to have found your videos. I'm in Aberdeenshire :) Is your greenhouse heated or are you just using heated propagation mats?

[@user-ui5tq6mc9p]

Are you using mats Emma?…..how do you find them?( usage).

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello and thanks so much for watching 😊 I grew up in Aberdeenshire so know it well up there and the weather you can get for growing! My greenhouse is unheated. I tend to have the heated propagator bench on from mid Feb to the end of March but come April it usually heats up enough for seeds to germinate without it. Although we could do with a little more sunshine this year!

[@elaineprescott3990]

I planted daucus last year, they are so tiny and don’t seem to be growing at all?! 😏

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Are they direct sown or in a tray in the greenhouse? They develop long tap roots and do not like to be disturbed so care has to be taken if transplanting. They sometimes do better if direct sown. My overwintered ones in the greenhouse are just starting to put on new growth now but the weather has not been good so I think that has slowed them down this year.