Aldi Seed Bombs.

[ListenLinda]

Hi,

Has anyone had any luck with them?
It says on the box takes upto 12 weeks to bloom, is it to late to scatter them?

I was also thinking of putting them in big pots, or will that not work?
I think they are wildflowers but not too sure!

Not the bombs but I have the Aldi wildflower scatter mix. It took a while to germinate but seems to be growing ok. I put them in my tubs because I didn’t know if the garden centres would be opening

That’s good to know. I’m so impatient, I planted a lot of seeds with DD about 5 weeks ago and they are just about beginning to germinate properly and get going but I was checking every day 😂

I've used Aldi wildflower box and all that came up where Evening Primrose( but amazing)

Funny thing was next door had a hard stand put in the other side of the fence to my EP and removed the topsoil and I agreed it could on my front garden

A few weeks later I got huge EP plants come up from their topsoil

I got some of these a couple of weeks ago thinking if they were selling them it's ok to plant them. No sign of anything yet.

May is a good time to be sowing outdoors. No worry about frosts killing off tender seedlings, early enough for a good display in later summer. The things that flower early summer you've usually grown the year before, or started off in a greenhouse.

They're not wildflowers (or at least, not wildflowers in the UK) - they're a mix of garden bred varieties and wildflowers from warmer countries. "Bee friendly" mixes usually include non-native flowers - if you want wil flowers, you need to go for a mix that specifies it's a wildflower mix, and even then some suppliers pack it out with non-natives like pink and purple cornflowers, Phacelia, Cosmos.

I can see red flax, Malva moschata, Echinacea, poppy, love-in-a-mist, marigold (Tagetes not Calendula), Cosmos, possibly candytuft, amongst others. Sow as thinly as possibly and be prepared to thin out seedlings - transplant the ones you take out rather than throw away, often it's one species that grows big and fast, so if you just keep the biog ones you end up with only one species from your sowing.

Can I ask how to thin seedlings out?

I think my flowers in pots need doing and my californian poppies seem to need to do so. As they look a bit clumped together. Novice here so I just put them in the soil and left them to sprout, silly me.

Easy way to thin out is to pull out the ones you don't need or nip them off at the base.

But I'm suggesting you don't throw away all the thinnings. If you can dig up the ones needing to move, do so. But they may be so close together you can't reove a seedling by itself. So - the seedlings will first produce two seed leaves, cotyledons. Wait till they've produced at least two, preferably more, proper leaves. Then tip out/dig out the soil containing the seedlings you want to separate and gently pull apart/shake until the piece is in two pieces. Repeat until all seedlings are separate. If you need to hold the seedlings, hold them by their leaves not by the stem, which is still brittle and will snap easily.

Thank you :)

One box some sewn in soil properly some just scattered in the wind early spring this year.

Scant coverage, most are tall so will put them against the fence next year, some have drifted across to the neighbours gardens despite the high fences !

The orange ones are Fox and Cubs and are perennial, so you have them for good now. The white is something in the carrot family, maybe Amni. The dark pink is in the mallow family, possibly Malope. Poppies you'll recognise, and I can't see the rest well enough. Quite a nice mixture!