planting seeds

[Easter Bunny]

Would it be a waste of time sowing weed seeds this time of year?

Not sure whether to just sprinkle them around the enclosure and hope for the best or wait until next year now.

Any advice please?

[emma_mcraf]

Depends on what seeds they are Lynne. I find that clover, dandelions, vetch and slender plantain come up pretty quickly. I usually sow a few pots in the summer to take me through the autumn.

[Easter Bunny]

Its the mixed weed seed, mallow and vetch I have..

[emma_mcraf]

I'm not sure how quickly the mallow will grow but I'd have imagined the vetch would do okay. It usually goes wild in my garden!

[Ozric Jonathan]

This can be a good time to sow seeds, but if the weather improves a lot then some watering of seedlings will be necessary.

But I think sprinkling seeds around the enclosure won't work well. Seeds generally need to be covered by a certain amount of soil to germinate.

When I've done alright with seeds it's been after very careful ground prep and burying the seeds by roughly the right amount of soil.

[sandy]

Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

This can be a good time to sow seeds, but if the weather improves a lot then some watering of seedlings will be necessary.

But I think sprinkling seeds around the enclosure won't work well. Seeds generally need to be covered by a certain amount of soil to germinate.

When I've done alright with seeds it's been after very careful ground prep and burying the seeds by roughly the right amount of soil.

Lol well I must be lucky then, as I just throw seeds around the areas I want them to grow, and just leave them.
But I do sow mine in the Autumn, and let the Winter do its job, I also let my dandies go to seed, so they self set around the garden too.
I usually have enough weeds to last mine until around July. August is always the month with hardly any weeds around, but the self set seeds, will be around for September.
I have done this for the last ten years or so, and so far not been let down.

[Ozric Jonathan]

It's interesting these things vary a lot across the country. Here there are always loads of weeds into October because of the amount of rain. But cold and wet weather are not great for seed germination and quite a lot of species don't do well from seed.

[sandy]

Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

It's interesting these things vary a lot across the country. Here there are always loads of weeds into October because of the amount of rain. But cold and wet weather are not great for seed germination and quite a lot of species don't do well from seed.

I went to France at the begining of April for two weeks, to visit daughter and grandchildren, I had no weeds growing in my garden, while I was away we had sun and rain, and my garden is now smothered in weeds:0)
The weather before I went, was probably the worst we have had here in Kent for at least five to six years, cold and wet. And weeds were very slow to appear, the sunshine did its job:0)

[Ozric Jonathan]

And I bet the sun was out all day almost every day when you were visiting. Not that I'm jealous at all!

[sandy]

Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

And I bet the sun was out all day almost every day when you were visiting. Not that I'm jealous at all!

Lol well it was pouring with rain when I left Trets, and bright sunshine when I arrived home:0)
It was a few degrees higher in temps while I was there though:0)