In a message dated 5/23/99 2:29:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gshirley@laol.net writes: > That's weird, I just chunk them in the soil and our natural high humidity > plus a > little watering on dry days makes them germinate at 100%. I didn't even know > you > could buy nastursium plants. George, you must have different soil then. In the sand here they dry out unless watered each morning and afternoon. Once the seedlings are established they do alright, but not in the germination stages. Even with highly amended soil it is mostly sand and very dry. They just never survived into that first set of true leaves for me, if they came up at all. We were lucky if one in ten came up. Anne in FL zone 9b