Re: [gardeners] Nigella - Love in a mist
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 11 Jan 1998 13:31:22 -0500
At 11:02 AM 11-01-98 -0700, you wrote:
>At 12:57 PM 1/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>At 07:06 AM 1/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>>>How did you get them started? Friends say "oh, just throw them on the
>>>ground..." Nigella didn't germinate for me like that. Of course, I do
>>>have the world's population of California quail, house finches and sparrows
>>>eating everything loose in my yard...Margaret
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>>just covered the seeds with 1/8" of soil. Nothing special.
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>>Give those birds something better to eat... bird feeder in another area
>>with niger, sunflower seeds and cracked corn for the quail.
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>>I didn't try starting them indoors, don't know if they take kindly to
>>transplanting, but hey, thy're annuals, can't you be brutal with annuals
>>and still have them flourish?
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>>Cynthia
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>>**Womyn Who Moves Mountains-Little Finger Of Michigan**
>>**cmayeaux@traverse.com **USDA zone 4b-Sunset zone 41**
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>Cynthia, I do feed niger thistle and black oil sunflower seeds. There is
>cracked corn in the hen scratch I serve quail, and they love the assorted
>grains until late spring, at which time everyone gives up on eating the
>wheat. Someone else comes in and polishes off that residue. Have to feed
>the quail on my concrete driveway, if I don't want a bald spot on my lawn.
>Lucinda says I can transplant them so I'll start them inside and hope the
>quail don't pick them for that day's salad. They've sure chewed up
>something in my bird feeder bed, and I can't remember what I planted there.
> Margaret
I don't know about inside; I start everything outside in sheltered
locations. I think the trick with free-seeding stuff (usually won't
transplant well) is to convince it that it has been free-seeded and not
transplanted, hence the cell pack. I even bury the whole cell pack in the
ground sometimes. I don't know why the birds won't bother them there but
they don't. Exception is sunflower seeds -- the birds go after them even
in the packs.
Lucinda
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