Due to last year’s miserable spring, Helen Chesnut will be delaying her initial indoor seedings a few weeks this year — until the first half of February
Dear Helen: From reading your columns I believe you grow many of your own transplants. I am trying to grow more of my own each year. As the beginning of the indoor seeding season draws near, I am wondering whether you plan to alter your accustomed schedule in light of last year’s cold, wet spring and early summer. That unusual weather brought drastic delays in transplanting. Transplants from my earliest indoor seedings became almost too overgrown to use.It was a distressing time for many of us.
Most pansies and violas I’ve grown take 10 to 14 days to germinate, in darkness. Once they are up and growing, then tend to stay neatly in compact rosettes. And they can be moved to the bowl-shaped containers I use for them and placed in the shelter of the patio while the weather is still cool. Because I do an enormous amount of indoor seeding, it is helpful to make as early a start as possible. And though I’ll be delaying the usual schedule just a little, in spite of last year’s miserable weather I’ll be employing an accustomed practice: Hope for, and expect, the best. Then deal with whatever happens with as much grace and equanimity as possible.
As the plant began dying down, I kept it cleaned of withered flower and leaf stems as I reduced watering. As temperatures outdoors rose to around 10 C, I set the pot in the light shade of a potting table’s lower shelf. Through the summer I gave the pot an occasional light watering, just enough to keep the tuber from shrivelling.
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