Annual seeds to scatter now?

[SherbertsHerberts]

What annuals would you still scatter around now, to fill up a few gaps this year? So need to be fast to germinate and grow because it's a bit late. I've got cornflower, California poppies, cosmos, calendula, nigella. Is there anything else that would fit the bill?

Nasturtiums??

Yes! Good call, thanks.

@SherbertsHerberts I've got some in pots and they are going really well. Your garden sounds lovely. I've also got some lupins starting ❤️

I just sowed some asters which will bloom later in the summer through early autumn.

I’m living the scattering plan!

Night scented stock. Quick growing and smell gorgeous 😍

Never grown asters or night scented stocks. Are they easy?

Night scented stocks are. I don't know about asters

Calendula should flower if sown now.

Don't know if they're "easy": I've only just sown them (and that was very easy!).

Night scented stock are easy yeah. Literally just scatter the seeds on the soil. They'll come up in less than a week

Great! Just what I'm after, thank you.

I must be doing something wrong!

Are you casting nasturtiums about the OP? 😂

@GloomyWednesday 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 definitely not 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've just sown Alyssum, it popped up within days and is flowering 3 weeks later.

Why, what are you doing? 🤣

Snapdragons, although I would poke them down a little!
Late flowering and the foliage holds on to keep the gap filled

Sowed some over a month ago and they germinated but are very weak looking, can’t be handled to pot on.

Wonder if it’s the compost.

May try again.

Chives, pretty flowers (like the tiny alliums they are), good for keeping pests off other plants, and you can eat the leaves and flowers.

Watch for slugs munching your seedlings if you are in a rainy area

They don't like being potted up and transplanted. Could try side scooping them iykwim now into the ground and they should get going.

Ladies mantle are lovely and will come back up every year

Borage is easy peasy and the bumblebees love it, you can eat it too