Oh hey I have some Joe Pye Weed Seeds from 2015 and Blanket Flower from 2016.
………………………….. I wonder if they’d even stay viable for that long with such mediocre seed storage they’ve had. Well, there’s only one way to truly test them out.
me w aristolochia tomentosa
now that’s a fancy species in the seedbox O3O
I feel overwhelmed by the amount of seeds I still need to use. at the same time, if y’all got spare green milkweed, spider milkweed, clasping milkweed, blue bonnets, and other seeds send em’ my way please.
LMAO sadly only milkweeds I would have to offer would’ve been Swamp and Butterflyweed if I hadn’t deadheaded them like crazy to AVOID reseeding this late summer.
I can relate to the overwhelming amount of seeds; I’ve tallied myself 13 plant species to sow this autumn and/or spring, and outside of that I have super old seeds still in storage that may never get used (like the absurd amount of sweet william from 2015 and older, as well as tons of miscellaneous 2010 yr seed packets) and may have absolutely no viability at this point (like the Cercis).
I hope i can get the chance to sow all of these this fall, if not I’ll be bummed, it’s a lot of really cool stuff and I might just use an incubator and plug beds instead of the ol’ bag of dirt in the fridge trick. One day I hope i can post photos of a restored prairie habitat but idk. Do you have any good photos of your yard?
Currently I do not, though I’m not sure how I’d photograph it to begin with as its mangled chaos of gardenscape, lawnscape, the greenhouse and the orchard and windbreak trees. There’d be a vegetable garden too but… well, irl complications changed that part of the landscape fast lol.
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