Larkspur in the veggie garden

 Larkspur did very well in the vegetable garden. It's mixed here with Turnips, which couldn't be a worse scenario because larkspur is poisonous. I think it does well here because the mulch is thinner. Also, Shelagh's sweet peas are up about 10". That's a volunteer Leek in the foreground.

Activity

• Planted 72 Dimorphotheca, "African Daisies" pale yellow on verge, back border
  
• Planted 2 Gardenia "radicans" (from uncle James) on verge
• Planted 5 Geranium pratense striatum, Cranesbill "Splish Splash" by Sago Palm, stone bench
  
• Planted 4 Delphinium "Dwarf Blue Butterfly" purple bed, rock garden.
  

Last week of January

Indoors

• Started African Daisy (Dimorphotheca) indoors in liner.
• Started Moss Verbena indoors in dome.
• Moved Delphinium dome from cool dark to light/warm, 75deg. Watered from bottom. Removed lid. Delphinium Culture.

African Daisy Moss Verbena Dwrf Blu Butfy Delph

Outdoors

• Sewed more Baby Blues eyes.
  
• Sewed more Larkspur.
• Sewed more Pernial Lupine.
• Mulched with pine straw and ground pine bark compost.

Rocket Larkspur Baby Blue Eyes Perennial Lupine

Seeded Delphiniums / Geraniums

Started these Delphiniums Dec. 29. Covered seeds with pearlite only (1/8") for even moisture. Delphinium Culture.


Heating mat keeps 70+ temps. There are some algae issues in the pearlite.


Started these Geraniums around Dec. 10th. You can see the algae here. This rare geranium was $6 for 10 seeds, only 5 germinated.


Photo of Splish Splash.