What ya gon' do with all that junk
All that junk inside your trunk?
-- Black Eyed Peas
Okay, so that's a terrible, uninspiring song. Really, truly, it is. It has no place in a proper gardening blog! Fortunately, this isn't a very proper blog; for thing one (it's Dr. Seuss's birthday), I daily find typos, spelling errors, and omissions. And daily I fix them. For thing two, I really have no idea what I am doing in many areas of gardening. And in gardening as in writing, it's the mistakes and corrections that keep us learning.
Mistakes, junk, trunks, and what to do.
I bought some juncus hedgehog seeds over a month ago. I love this grass. It's a native (or so one website explained), and it's very unique. It has straight, green blades that are topped with small, blackberry like balls. Plus, the name makes me giggle. I think the whole juncus family may have been an inspiration to Dr. Seuss. (This information in no way has ever been verified with any source -- I call it, *gasp* an uninformed opinion).
A piece of of information that I really would like a legitimate source for is how to start juncus hedgehog. I had no instructions with my seeds, so I had to wing it, which tends to mean ruining a packet of seeds more often than not. I placed the very miniscule seeds in peat pots last week, and I put them in a Ziploc bag on a heat mat. There they have sat for a week. I keep peeking at them, but nothing is going on. Nothing. If something doesn't happen soon, I may break down and purchase some plants. I really want the dry stream bed garden to be plants that I've started from seed. But I want this plant in there even more. There may end up being some juncus in my trunkus . . . we'll see.
"juncus in my trunkus" LOL! I've learned that some seeds take longer than a week, no matter what the seed packet says. There have been a few times when I've given up and planted something else in the pot, only to have the original thing germinate! That's how I got a pepper plant in the zinnias one year.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about grasses, but I'd probably give it another week before giving up. My parsley is just now germinating, and it's been two weeks since I started it. Some things just take longer.
Thanks for the advice, Shannon! I will give them another week. I am just so impatient when it comes to germination. I don't know why . . . it's not like I can plant them yet. I am finding that gardening is as much about learning patience as it is about learning plants.
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