Trailing lobelia

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I've just planted some seeds in a grow tray.

I don't normally attempt to grow from seed but I am this year.

Has anyone grown these from seed? Any tips?

I'm also attempting basil, giant sunflowers, geraniums and some veg with my Dd.

We have garlic too - I planted a bulb in a pot last year and it's come up this year!

All the others I am ok with and have grown before but the lobelia I think has a rep for being g hard to grow.

No tips for lobelia sorry. I am on my second year of attempting basil and I have found it to be the most drama llama of seedlings so actually I am no help at all

@Sunflowersinthewind I gave up on basil (a friend scarlets the seed round her garden and it just grows….sigh). So I nut a supermarket pot and split it to plant little clumps individually. You can get about 15 to 20 pots from one. Then grow on. Works beautifully.

I will let you know about the basil

Maybe next weekend I will get some sprouting

This is the garlic i planted last year and pulled out and used! It's still sprouted up this year so I have re potted it. I think it deserves its own pot!

It was a random bit that got away in the fridge and had a few shoots when I found it so I think garlic must do well in the colder months.

What is growing now though is it classed as wild garlic or non wild garlic

I think as you can tell I am super proud of my non effort garlic.

I have only been gardening a few months. I made a half hearted attempt at growing from seed. Didn’t expect anything. But apparently my kitchen window is magic as all but have sprouted.

What are you growing @Paranoidandroidmarvin

I have no sprouts at all yet.

Are the dahlias

They are. And I tried poached eggs as well. Wasn’t expecting anything to happen At all. Now I have more than I actually need. So will be giving them away I think

Lobelia can take 3 weeks to germinate.. and a little seed goes a long long way! I can almost guarantee you have oversown!! When it appears let it grow on for a couple of weeks then divide into little clumps... dont even think about counting the seedlings equally!! You will be crosseyed.. little clumps are fine.. just pot up and grow on.. harden off after last frost... it will grow and grow and grow, thickening out nicely.. great fun!

I tried lobelia once I found it very difficult, but maybe I'm not patient enough. The seats were like dust and they were very difficult to transplant, although it can't be impossible because people do it! Good luck, trailing lobelia is one of my absolute favourites

I did actually tease lobelia seedlings out individually once and they did much less well than little clumps. Probably because of the extra trauma of being handled so much. Once you've pricked out little clumps it's only a question of watering and patience.

I've never got my trailing lobelia to actually trail though. Lovely but upright.

@Bonbon21

Lobelia can take 3 weeks to germinate.. and a little seed goes a long long way! I can almost guarantee you have oversown!! When it appears let it grow on for a couple of weeks then divide into little clumps... dont even think about counting the seedlings equally!! You will be crosseyed.. little clumps are fine.. just pot up and grow on.. harden off after last frost... it will grow and grow and grow, thickening out nicely.. great fun!

My daughter aged 8 planted them. They will be oversown. She said "I've dropped a load"

Three weeks to germinate - I'm in the kitchen every morning checking lol.

Three of my sunflowers are sprouting though. They are giant sunflowers.

Nothing yet from the geraniums, basil or chillis.

@Paranoidandroidmarvin

They are. And I tried poached eggs as well. Wasn’t expecting anything to happen At all. Now I have more than I actually need. So will be giving them away I think

Poached eggs! I couldn't poach an egg if my life depended on it. They never work for me either.