Salvia from Seed Update | Bargain Plants and More!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Have you grown Salvia from seed? If yes, then what varieties have you tried and how well did they grow for you?

[@marybethgardener111]

I love your channel. You are the real deal! No BS or selling me stuff :)

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Yep, I want to help people actually learn how to garden, that is my goal. I want to stay in touch with the reality that I had when I first started, which was no spare $$$ for anything.

[@marybethgardener111]

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse I love it and APPRECIATE it!!

[@eliagutierrez1145]

Hello Pam, I’m so happy I stumbled onto your account! I enjoy and benefit from your content, thank you!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Thank you for the kind words! It does help keep me motivated. 🦋

[@gracieshomeandgardens5089]

I love the sound of your watet fountain.its therapeutic.😊

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Me too!

[@teinahenderson4182]

Good morning Pamela! 😊 isn't it a wonderful thing to know we can continue to learn! I'm in fact, learning new things from you! 🤗 love it

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Wonderful! Its amazing how much there is to learn.

[@JAYNEmM1962]

Blue bedder,is what I started this year. I love blues in the garden and there are so few.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

That is a new one to me, looking it up now!

[@drhappyplants]

This is my first year growing Salvia. I did White Victory and Pink Sunday this year; they readily germinated for me and are doing well out in the landscape.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Those sound lovely, I will have to look them up. I have yet to try a white or a pink one.

[@shirleywilhelm1495]

I love that little trowel. I purchased it. Love gadgets! Could you share how you made the fountain behind you? Thanks for sharing so many things!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

I bought that fountain from Decor Steals a few years back. I just love it. I love the little trowel too it is so handy but in the past I have done well with a teaspoon from the kitchen.

[@flowers.on.demand]

Agreed. Really appreciate the realities in gardening that you share. Thank you!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Glad you enjoyed it! I do try and remember how it was to get started with no room in the budget for plants.

[@katethegardener]

Good morning Pam, I'm having my tea and watching your video. I enjoy your videos and am thankful for all your knowledge and tips! Great idea to multiply the geraniums with cuttings. I just divided a large hosta into 8 pieces and sold them for $3. each on marketplace. I use the $ to buy more plants! Some of my hostas are 20+ years old and I have done this every few years.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

What a great idea! I love finding ways to get more plants with ingenuity and some effort.

[@zyaayz]

Thank you! I started violet queen salvia from seed!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Yay, I can't wait to see mine bloom and watch how well they do in my climate.

[@Idaho_Garden]

My favorite salvia to grow from seed is Salvia Evolution. It’s an annual in my zone but super easy to grow and my favorite thing in the garden every year.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

I will look that one up! Has it ever reseeded for you?

[@life-mm5do]

I have read Castrol oil granules deter gophers in gardens. They are safe for flowers and plants. The gophers hate the smell. All of your gardens and videos are wonderful.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Thank you. I have tried it and still have a gallon jug, it just hasn't done the job for me though. I will use it up and keep at it but I can't say it really has worked.

[@dustyflats3832]

So glad you are talking Salvias!🎉. I’m growing several right now. First off I get confused with Salvia and Veronica as both are fairly new to me, but I am having Great germination on both inside. The Veronica looks like a Chia pet in each cell 😅. Last year I did winter sow of both from Swallowtail. You don’t get many seeds and The warmer winters and winter sow doesn’t work well for me, Z5a, WI. I’ve learned to start later and keep them on the east side of house and put on south side in spring. However, the seeds didn’t do well last year in winter sowing, But I had a huge surprise this spring!🎉. I seen tags and growth from both Woodland Sage Salvia and Sightseeing Mixture Veronica🎉🎉 but the mixture will probably not be a mix if there is only one-we will see. It only takes ONE plant to get me excited! And the warm winter has allowed a return of carnations, snapdragons, ARTICHOKES 😮, Robinson Red Mum, baby’s breath and new to me penstemon and others I’m sure to discover. This has to be the most surprise finds I’ve ever experienced!😍. It normally never happens because our winters use to be very cold. I mean I literally wrote these plants off as some I never seen last summer and must have been hiding and working on their roots behind the scenes. So, now I wish I could show you a picture of all the Salvia varieties and a Veronica I have growing. They have Exploded in a 72 cell propagation tray! They are all Baker Creek and here’s the list: Amore Purple & Salmon, Rose Rhapsody, Summer Jewels Pink and Queen Mix. I keep all seed packets to look back on. I see I tried Veronica Sightseeing Mix from ST again and wrote the seeds looked like dust 😂 I think it’s Sight-unseen Mix😂. I have so many flower flats and pots right now I couldn’t tell you if it’s here, but I doubt it. The Amore varieties were slower to germinate and wondered if I would see them, but I kept dome on and spritzed them and TahDah! They are here. I will say I’m glad I keep the packets for info. Tried Blue Glitter Sea Holly but maybe it didn’t like the frog soil-nor do I. The Russian Sage-Taiga and Jupiter’s Beard-Snow Cloud from Swallowtail is doing great as is Sea Holly-Steel Blue from Botanical Interests. I don’t know all the Salvia and Veronica varieties and what performs great or is the latest and greatest but the pollinators will like them-we will see. I always said if something takes off here it’s a keeper…well, until vinca and I’m questioning poppies and watching bee balm 😅. I must be improving the soil 😊. My fenced garden area is always bigger in my head 😅 and my husband keeps saying where are they all going. So glad we got 2” of rain yesterday and more today. I think La Niña is returning. How do you keep flowers that do well in check?

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

They do both look so much alike. I know I have to look very closely when they are in the garden!

[@soniewhitten4844]

enjoyed the video very much! thank you for sharing.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@battybloomers649]

Hi Pam! I planted "blue bedder" salvia under my grow lights ( maybe in February?) and they are doing great. They're huge and I even took cuttings from them. Out of 4, three lived! Thank you for all the practical info you share!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Wonderful, I will have to look that one up! Thank you for sharing.

[@KathleenSmiley-te6hv]

I started violet queen salvia this year and they are looking really good. Salvias are one of my favorite plants and I’m really excited to be starting a perennial variety.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

That's awesome! I made sure they were perennial for me too. I went and checked this morning and the ones I started last year are coming back. I never know as our winters can be so unpredictable.

[@lisab.6818]

I am so with you about it is sooooo much more interesting! My geraniums in the basement didn't do as well but I didnt pot them up separately. Seeds to plant! I winter sowed 41 jugs and only 5 haven't done much. Getting ready for spring sowing. Tip cuttings on everything? I am potting up some of my cool season seedlings in pots so I can bring them in. When I opened one of my lavendar containers it was a beautiful waft of scent ❤.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Wow! I have failed at getting lavender to grow from seed. I should try it again. Not everything does better with tip cuttings rather than stem cuttings but as I learn I will always update everyone. That is an excellent success rate with the winter sowing. Half of mine have germinated and I will be patient with the others. I was suprised that the Super Sweet 100 tomato jug had one coming up in it so far. I expected that one to be later, we have not warmed up at night much at all.

[@lisab.6818]

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse I am growing 2 types of lavendar from Ferry Morse and after seeing your Spanish lav, I think that I will be ordering those seeds from Renee. My special ordered seeds are the slowest: pink gaura, dames rocket and 1 salvia.

[@ShirleyJDavis]

I love your videos. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

You are so welcome! Thank you so much for letting me know. It keeps me motivated.

[@dustyflats3832]

Oh, I wanted to say I love Bootstrap farmer pots, ect. The tray holder for 2.5” pots hold them in place because the heavy duty trays have deep grooves and they wobble, But! I do use the low tray with the holder because the pots are too high up in the other tray to bottom water.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Yes, I really do like them too. I didn't think they would make much of a difference but I have found they do.

[@lillylane8832]

I am really learning a lot from your videos. I am a long time vegetable gardener turned flower gardener (zone 6a) Heirloom roses are my favorite! I have been starting seeds indoors for decades and am curious about your winter sown milk jugs. Could you explain? Thank you!

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Yes, here is my Playlist all on Winter Sowing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJymaISFrsyYZ8k

[@theropesofrenovation9352]

Can you germinate a salvia seed at a greater temp than 70? My temps are in the 80 right now.

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Most will, yes. In fact, they prefer the warmer temps.

[@theropesofrenovation9352]

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse Awesome! Thanks!

[@veronicascott8012]

I love petunias and geraniums but I haven't been buying them for a couple of years because mine always get those caterpillars that put holes in the buds. Does anyone else have that problem and what do you do about it?

[@FlowerPatchFarmhouse]

Bud worms are such a pain. I have, in the past, in lieu of spraying with a BT based spray, sifted flour over the plant, wait an hour (sometimes overnight if I am very busy) then I spray it off with a spray nozzle on my hose. When they eat the flour while munching on the plant it kills them. Sometimes if I am just finding the damage I hand pick them off.

[@veronicascott8012]

@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse wow I've never heard of that. Maybe I'll have to try it. Thank you