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Winter Sowing Sweet Peas – It Works!

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Okay, if you follow me on YouTube, you're most likely tired of hearing me talk about it - winter sowing. I seriously love this technique so much. In fact, I even put in the effort to make an entire winter sowing series in which I show every winter sowing container being started for this year's…

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March Week One Update

Categories amaranth, anemones, annuals, arrangments, bachelor buttons, bees, beneficials, bouquets, bulbs, cold, cut flowers, cutting, daffodils, dahlias, decor, direct sow, diy, dusty miller, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, farm, first flowers, flowers, fragrant, frost, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, home decor, hoophouse, how to, hyacinth, hybrids, indoors, lupine, milk jugs, nectar, photos, picking, planting, plastic, pollen, pollenless, pollinators, poppy, propagating, pulling, quinoa, ranunculus, reviews and trials, salvia, seed saving, seed starting, seedlings, snapdragons, snow, statice, stock, story, strawflower, sunflowers, sweet annie, sweet peas, tubers, tulips, tutorial, Uncategorized, update14 Comments on March Week One Update

Hi Lovelies, Brace yourselves! This post has a lot of pictures. Just a quick peek at  nearly everything that's going on right now! Let's all just hope that this warmer weather will keep on coming our way! Not pictured is the progress on the dahlia tubers that I've started for cuttings. The reason? Well, it looks…

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Let’s Plant Some Sweet Peas (Lathyrus odoratus)and See What Happens!

Categories annuals, arrangments, bouquets, cold, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, diy, fall planting, first flowers, flowers, fragrant, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, how to, milk jugs, seed starting, seedlings, sweet peas, tutorial, winter, winter sowing8 Comments on Let’s Plant Some Sweet Peas (Lathyrus odoratus)and See What Happens!

Hi Lovelies, First and foremost, let's be clear, we're talking ornamental sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus). NOT edible "sweet" peas,as they are sometimes called by veggie loving gardeners. These, in fact, are toxic. So, don't eat them. Okay? K, thanx. Sweet peas and I have a complicated relationship. I love them, but any time I think I've…

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February Week 4 Update – Germination Celebration, lol.

Categories annuals, bouquets, cold, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, dusty miller, dutch iris, first flowers, flowers, gardening, Growing, hardy annuals, how to, lupine, milk jugs, planting, poppy, propagating, quinoa, ranunculus, salvia, seed starting, seedlings, snapdragons, stock, strawflower, sweet annie, sweet peas, tutorial, update, winter, winter sowing6 Comments on February Week 4 Update – Germination Celebration, lol.

Hi Lovelies, The week 4 update is a little early, but I probably won't have internet access for the next few days - so I wanted to get these posted now! All of the seedlings below have been planted using the winter sowing method in milk jugs. Let me know if you've got any questions,…

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February 2016: Week One Update

Categories anemones, annuals, cold, corms, cut flowers, cutting, direct sow, dusty miller, first flowers, flowers, forcing, fragrant, frost, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, hoophouse, how to, photos, ranunculus, seed starting, snapdragons, snow, sweet peas, tulips, update, walk around, winter, winter sowing12 Comments on February 2016: Week One Update

Hi Lovelies, First and foremost, let me apologize to everyone who left a comment on the last post and I didn't get a chance to respond. I've been having major technical difficulties over here, which I have hopefully resolved. Now that I've done a lot of winter sowing, I feel like the season has started…

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November Garden Update

Categories anemones, corms, cut flowers, fall planting, gardening, hardy annuals, hoophouse, ranunculus, sweet peas12 Comments on November Garden Update

Hi Lovelies, Long time, no see. Well, the leaves have completely fallen here. This means that with the exception of the plants in the hoophouse, the hardy annuals are completely covered beneath a nice layer. While some folks like to rake and rake, I don't, so I just let them be. That's the great thing…

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Beginner’s Guide to a Gorgeous Spring Garden

Categories anemones, annuals, arrangments, bachelor buttons, bouquets, bulbs, corms, cut flowers, cutting, daffodils, direct sow, dutch iris, fall, fall planting, fall sowing, farm, first flowers, flowers, fragrant, gardening, Growing, guide, hardy annuals, hoophouse, how to, ranunculus, seed starting, snapdragons, sweet peas, tulips6 Comments on Beginner’s Guide to a Gorgeous Spring Garden

Hi Lovelies, Well, we made it! Day 15 of Blog-tober! If I had known that 31 days of straight blog posts would be this difficult, I'm not sure I would have taken on the task - but, I'm enjoying it nonetheless. With tons of orders of spring seeds and bulbs landing on my front porch…

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Updates – Sweet Peas, Lisianthus, Catmint, and Planting Time

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Hi Lovelies, I hope that everyone is doing quite well. I've been on the road to recovery for the past week after a quick visit to the emergency room, yuck! With this, I've been away from the flowers and so much has gone on without me. Though I'm technically still supposed to be on bed…

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