Hi Steve, Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I'm a retired florist as well as a gardener and Vermiculturalist. In the flower shop we used to say Gyp or Baby's Breath. And we joked that Gyp can make an amateur look good. Using your design method is well done 👨🌾👍 Your Garden is going to be gorgeous. Thanks for sharing 👍
Enjoying the flower side of your plot Steve as I’m growing pretty much the same as you, and your advice and knowledge is very welcome thank you😀 stay safe David 👍👍
Some great ideas for flowers here, and good to hear about the tagetes differentiations. I'll try and get the right seeds for the small ones this year. Luckily I missed your February/March videos last year so having a good binge now 🤣
Hi Steve we also like to grow dahlias marigolds zinnia's roses all help the bee's and predators we need in our gardens and plots , must admit you going to have a vast array to choose from for cut flowers. Keep safe Bill and val
Crikey Steve, I'm getting the urge to go out and buy flower seed!!! As a vegetable gardener myself- you make it seem so attractive. Lets hope I've got the room....!!! Keep it up Steve
Well that’s going to keep us all busy this month 🤣 great selection there Steve. Love your explanations for them all too. Very helpful. The greenhouse is nicely filling up now 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱👍🏻
I grow marigolds from 6” to 3’ and I have a white variety I’m trying this year. I had some (thank goodness not many) out in the poly tunnel last week and we got a horrible freeze and they died 😭😭. Thank you for sharing Steve 🐝 safe 🙏☮️🇺🇦🌻
Hi Steve, I'm so glad I watched this video as I'm sowing some flowers this week and would've messed up with the Stocks as I didn't know they need sowing on the surface, thank you, see you over on Tony's channel lol 😁🌱☀️
Good morning Steve, i am quite a novice gardener so the advice you provide is invaluable. I mostly grow tropical plants but this year I'm using my greenhouse to grow tomatoes, chillies and peppers. I've also started off some herbs. I do have a frost free greenhouse and a heated log cabin, where i keep my Vitapod with lights. This is the first year that ive had the Vitapod which is currently full. The cabin is looking like a greenhouse (full of Cannas, small palms, and other tropical plants, but they are now josteling for position with the seed trays). I'm waiting for my husband to put up the greenhouse shading, so that I can move the seedlings in there, because in the sun, the temperature has reached over 35deg, in Buckighamshire. QUESTION: What is an ideal temperature to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse please? Lynda
Great selection of flowers Steve, includes many of my own favourites. Not that it really matters, but I think Tagetes should be pronounced "Taja-tees" unless I've been saying it wrong all these years. Rudbeckia Rustic Dwarf is only dwarf in relative terms - mine were 40-50cm tall last summer so not really a traditional bedding flower. I tend to leave sowing all the heat loving tender annuals like Zinnias and Tithonia until mid-April as I don't find there is any real benefit in starting them early.
Hi Steve enjoyed the video when I have sowed my flower and salad seeds I’ve put them on the window ledge or under the work top lights but still they grow long and leggy to long to pot on what am I doing wrong am I starting to early Thanks
Hi Shiela, when plants grow long and leggy it is called Etiolation, the plant is stretching out looking for light, but the other factor that makes them do this is it is too warm. You want it warm for most seeds to get them germinated and started into growth, then remove from heat and place into light. It is a contradiction slightly, but the initial warmth is to get them going quickly, then removing from the heat slows them down again and the light helps them to photosynthesize. A south facing windowsill is best for light, worktop lights wont be enough for the plants, even if they appear to be bright to you...Steve...😃
Hi steve, great video. I am in the middle of sowing flowers now and i wonder how to sow salvias, i don't seem to be very lucky with them, do you have some information for me?
I put my geranium 1/4 to 3/8 in (5-8mm) with good results. I have several pots I started before Christmas, looking good, already blooming. Another group from mid January also looking good. I have to wait until May here in western Canada, before they can go out.
Petunias need light to germinate so yes sow on the surfaace of your soil/compost, advice varies on this as some say cover with compost, I do not. Geranium advice also varies, follow Joes advice here...Steve...😃
Marigolds are very hardy depending on your variety, most of them can be direct down outside or germinated in a poly tunnel. Normally they self sow when outside and come back next year aswel
Warmth will really help them along to germinate faster, but is not entirely necessary, they will just take much longer to germinate and as a result could possibly spend too long in wet ssoil and so rot. Some warmth would help them along for example a window sill...Steve...😃
You know, I LIVE when you sit at the table in the polytunnel. Such a fab background for a wee chat 😀😀😀
Thanks Eli, I cant wait till I can sit out in the beds, shirt sleeves, sunshine and a mass of flowers for a background...bliss!...Steve...😃
Hi Steve,
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
I'm a retired florist as well as a gardener and Vermiculturalist.
In the flower shop we used to say Gyp or Baby's Breath. And we joked that Gyp can make an amateur look good. Using your design method is well done 👨🌾👍
Your Garden is going to be gorgeous.
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thank you Peggy, yes that is the extent really of my flower arranging, but I bow to my Anne for that....Steve...😃
Yep, I like nearly all of them Steve. It's time!!!
Yes...Mad March is here...Steve...😃
Thanks Steve I appreciate the video. I know next to nothing about growing flowers. Take care
Good flower advice thank you .
You are welcome Joan, thanks for watching...Steve...😃
Great selection of flowers Steve - these are going to give such a fantastic display this summer. The bees will love you! 😊🐝
Great video and I watched it entirely 👌
Thank you Willow, I hope you have loads sown too!...Steve...😃
Enjoying the flower side of your plot Steve as I’m growing pretty much the same as you, and your advice and knowledge is very welcome thank you😀 stay safe David 👍👍
Thank you David, so glad you are enjoying the flower videos...Steve...😃
Some great ideas for flowers here, and good to hear about the tagetes differentiations. I'll try and get the right seeds for the small ones this year. Luckily I missed your February/March videos last year so having a good binge now 🤣
Hi Steve we also like to grow dahlias marigolds zinnia's roses all help the bee's and predators we need in our gardens and plots , must admit you going to have a vast array to choose from for cut flowers. Keep safe Bill and val
Hi Bill & Val, yes lots of choice and more to come yet...Steve...😃
Crikey Steve, I'm getting the urge to go out and buy flower seed!!!
As a vegetable gardener myself- you make it seem so attractive. Lets hope I've got the room....!!! Keep it up Steve
Good to hear Mike, if you are struggling for space, just try 3 or 4 this year, but do have a go as you will be glad you did...Steve...😃
Well that’s going to keep us all busy this month 🤣 great selection there Steve. Love your explanations for them all too. Very helpful. The greenhouse is nicely filling up now 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱👍🏻
Well, I could not have you all having an easy month now could I?...Steve...😃
Great video, I've been planting flower seeds, really shocked hi ow well they have come along. Wanna do another sowing
Thats it Mark, keep those seeds going in...Steve...😃
Briza maxima, very pretty, but very invasive. I had them once and they popped up everywhere.
Hi Steve, a great video with lots of information on growing flowers thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thanks Christine, much more to come I hope...Steve...😃
I grew salvia bedding plants last year for the first time, they were gorgeous! Thanks for your kind advice about seeds 🙂
You are welcome Kin, hopefully much more to come!...Steve...😃
I grow marigolds from 6” to 3’ and I have a white variety I’m trying this year. I had some (thank goodness not many) out in the poly tunnel last week and we got a horrible freeze and they died 😭😭. Thank you for sharing Steve 🐝 safe 🙏☮️🇺🇦🌻
Sorry to hear that Rusty, its a disaster when you lose plants...Steve...😃
Hi Steve, I'm so glad I watched this video as I'm sowing some flowers this week and would've messed up with the Stocks as I didn't know they need sowing on the surface, thank you, see you over on Tony's channel lol 😁🌱☀️
Hi Fletchy, I will be on Tony's show on Monday all being well...Steve...😃
Good morning Steve, i am quite a novice gardener so the advice you provide is invaluable. I mostly grow tropical plants but this year I'm using my greenhouse to grow tomatoes, chillies and peppers. I've also started off some herbs. I do have a frost free greenhouse and a heated log cabin, where i keep my Vitapod with lights. This is the first year that ive had the Vitapod which is currently full. The cabin is looking like a greenhouse (full of Cannas, small palms, and other tropical plants, but they are now josteling for position with the seed trays). I'm waiting for my husband to put up the greenhouse shading, so that I can move the seedlings in there, because in the sun, the temperature has reached over 35deg, in Buckighamshire. QUESTION: What is an ideal temperature to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse please? Lynda
Great selection of flowers Steve, includes many of my own favourites. Not that it really matters, but I think Tagetes should be pronounced "Taja-tees" unless I've been saying it wrong all these years. Rudbeckia Rustic Dwarf is only dwarf in relative terms - mine were 40-50cm tall last summer so not really a traditional bedding flower. I tend to leave sowing all the heat loving tender annuals like Zinnias and Tithonia until mid-April as I don't find there is any real benefit in starting them early.
I agree about the pronunciation
All the flowers mentioned will be sown in small batches through the month, the heat loving plants at the end...Steve...😃
Hi Steve enjoyed the video when I have sowed my flower and salad seeds I’ve put them on the window ledge or under the work top lights but still they grow long and leggy to long to pot on what am I doing wrong am I starting to early
Thanks
Hi Shiela, when plants grow long and leggy it is called Etiolation, the plant is stretching out looking for light, but the other factor that makes them do this is it is too warm. You want it warm for most seeds to get them germinated and started into growth, then remove from heat and place into light. It is a contradiction slightly, but the initial warmth is to get them going quickly, then removing from the heat slows them down again and the light helps them to photosynthesize. A south facing windowsill is best for light, worktop lights wont be enough for the plants, even if they appear to be bright to you...Steve...😃
Hi steve, great video. I am in the middle of sowing flowers now and i wonder how to sow salvias, i don't seem to be very lucky with them, do you have some information for me?
Sow salvias on the surface of the soil/compost, provide heat to germinate, protect from frost...Steve...😃
@@GreenSideUp thank you!
Would you put Petunia and Geranium seed on the surface?
I put my geranium 1/4 to 3/8 in (5-8mm) with good results. I have several pots I started before Christmas, looking good, already blooming. Another group from mid January also looking good. I have to wait until May here in western Canada, before they can go out.
Petunias need light to germinate so yes sow on the surfaace of your soil/compost, advice varies on this as some say cover with compost, I do not. Geranium advice also varies, follow Joes advice here...Steve...😃
steve, can marigolds and tagetes be started in an unheated greenhouse or do they need warmth ? cheers
Marigolds are very hardy depending on your variety, most of them can be direct down outside or germinated in a poly tunnel. Normally they self sow when outside and come back next year aswel
Warmth will really help them along to germinate faster, but is not entirely necessary, they will just take much longer to germinate and as a result could possibly spend too long in wet ssoil and so rot. Some warmth would help them along for example a window sill...Steve...😃
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I made the mistake of growing cosmos in rich ground...I ended up with thick green bush like monsters ha. Will not be doing that again