Posted by Stephanie | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 30-01-2009
So, how do we continue to grow such a beautiful garden here at Park Seed? The answer is planning! Right now is the time when we are brainstorming and planning how to arrange the layout of the Park Seed Trial Garden. We start over with a clean slate every season, making changes to things we have added or taken away. This process includes figuring out which annuals and perennials will be planted where and making sure each variety fits where it is planted. For instance, all of the annuals planted in the Butterfly and Hummingbird garden will unquestionably attract butterflies and hummingbirds. This means we are giving our best to get the newest and most popular varieties here to Greenwood, SC. As the planning stage comes to an end, all trial items and lists are finalized. And what does that mean? That spring is here and it is time to get our hands dirty and start planting!
The month of February marks the perfect time for sowing annuals and perennials that take longer to develop. Begonia, Coreopsis, Delphinium, Vinca, and Rudbeckia are a few of these examples. In March, we begin sowing plants like Dianthus, Salvia, and Gazania. As many of these seedlings break the surface, the time for transplanting gets closer and closer. After all have grown and been hardened off, the plants are prepared to make their way to the Park Seed Trial Garden!
Never to old to learn I have garden for the last 40 odd years or longer and always thought I had a green thumb. but I change my garden closer to the house since Iam a lone. Well the first years was claning and distroying weeds and planting or transferring flower plants that I had loved and started new ones. but some started to die. now matter what I did. well WVU ask did I have Walnut trees and yes I had 5 and planted a row of butternuts to sprout in the garden needless to say now I have problem adn looking for advise what I can grow but know lots of vegables are not doing well Now there is a little bit of hope I saw in one of the spring catalogs to put plastic down adn lay a bag of soil down punch wholes in it and it will grow most any thing you wish but after ward you can cover the bag of soil adn reused many times. Tired and it is working but so am I. Louise righman