Last year I was screwing around with so many veggies and distracting myself in various ways until it got too late to plant datura. This year I’ve got the daturas in the ground already. I started (warning, nomenclature problems ahead):
Datura bernhardii, which as I remember is like a stramonium but smaller, the flowers are lavender [...]
I love growing plants from seed, especially when it’s successful.:) This year is working out pretty well along those lines. While it’s true that a number of seeds that needed cold stratification did not do well when transplanted into soil, others that I started directly in peat pellets or that needed warmth to germinate are [...]
It was forecast to be unseasonably hot Saturday, 85F/30C, and indeed, it got there. I had planned to do a bunch of garden work, like raking up the beds again after tilling, but the sun was too intense. Instead, I put stuff in the ground–three chamomiles, an angelica, a variegated Solomon’s seal (one day later [...]