During the winter I do a whole lot more reading than I do any other time of the year. As a gardener and fishing nut I do my fun stuff during the spring, summer and fall and then learn new things in the winter.
This past winter I saw a picture on Pinterest with a short caption saying to soak your garden seeds for 24 hours before planting them to help them germinate faster. For some of the seeds I have they take a long time to germinate in soil.
Soaking Sweet Pea Seeds
I kind of forgot that tip only to think about it after I was almost done. Fortunately I still had a few seeds to start some sweet peas and lupins. They went in water for 24 hours. I kept checking them from time to time and after about 6 hours I could see that some seeds had already split open. Very cool.
Almost a week ago I planted some lupin seeds but nothing had happened yet. The seeds I soaked in water for a day sprouted at the same time, just two days later.
This morning between the rain I went out and planted the soaked seeds along the two fences in the north east corner of our yard. They should make a nice privacy fence for the summer. I also planted a few in the raised bed on the left and right of our three clematis.
That should fill up that empty space on the trellis until the clematis catch up.
I also filled two pots with soil and then added some of the soaked sweet pea seeds to one half of the pot. The other half is where I plan to stick a plastic pop bottle I can fill and use as a drip irrigation system so they don’t dry out as quickly as they usually do in the summer.
I have started an article on using containers for drip irrigation I will publish it shortly, I hope.
