WOT, nobody any suggestions?
"Andy Coles" <parol_coles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> (1) My dear old mum has a very pretty cottage garden with an abundance
of
> poppies of all different verieties growing in it. This year she had a
> bumper crop, so many that she collected a bag full for me to seed in my
> garden.
>
> I understand that I need to till the soil finely and sprinkle and hoe in
> up to 1/2 an inch below the surface (unless anyone knows different) but
> when is the best time to sow the poppy seeds.
>
> (2) Visited a Maize Maze the other day which had heaps of giant
> sunflowers growing in amongst the corn. As the maze was about to be cut
> for sileage the organisers did not object to me taking a pocket full of
> sunflower seeds home which I have dried out on a tray. My quandry is
> twofold - a. When is the best time of year to plant sunflower seeds and
> b. should they be sown in trays first, put on blotting paper/kitchen
> towel and soaked until the sprowt and then planted or just chucked into
> the soil and lightly hoed in.
>
> What I would really like to do is mix the poppy seeds and sunflower
seeds
> and just chuck them onto the soil followed by a light hoeing but somehow
I
> dont think this is the way to go.
>
> Advice, once again, would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
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