Forget me nots
Oakley Witch
Posts: 789
When can i plant them out? They were planted last autumn and they are now filling the 8cm pots. Help please 
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Oakley Witch
Posts: 789
Oakley Witch
Posts: 789
Oakley Witch
Posts: 789
Oakley Witch
Posts: 789
When can i plant them out? They were planted last autumn and they are now filling the 8cm pots. Help please
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Harden them off each day before planting them out, to climitise them.
Like Verdun says, I no longer need to plant forget-me-nots, it's now just a matter of pulling them up from where I don't want them! I tend to leave them growing everywhere as a kind of ground-cover over the winter, then let them flower in the spring and try to remember to pull them up from where I don't want them, before they set seed. The foliage has turned a little purple this year after the harsh winter and no sign of flowers yet though. I'm really looking forward to the drifts of pastel blue that will soon appear.
I usually plant small plants in the garden in the autumn. I used to let them seed themselves, then I started getting a wild variety with tiny weeny flowers that I didn't want and ants seemed to like living in the roots of these, so now I pull them up when over and weed out any I'm not sure about. They are very hardy.
I just let them get on with it now like a lot of other annuals/biennials. I do agree with B-L though, they don't improve over time
In the sticks near Peterborough
I live in Arizona and I got forget-me-nots from my aunts funeral. I would like to plant them but I do not have a garden And I live in an apartment how would I be able to grow them indoors? Also I have never planted anything before, this would be my first time.
PTL, you don't say!
How funny - spent the weekend pulling up this year's FmNots - and found loads of ants nesting in their roots - I didn't realise it was a common thing!
Busy & Chicky, that would explain why I've loads of ants all down garden path, as self set FMN's down the path border. I thought they enjoyed living under the path.