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April 17.2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the weather is super nice and warm, I decided to do some plant action. Natural dye plants seeds I ordered online have arrived, and it will be a good timing to start seedlings indoor. As I heard of the slugs at the Elisabeet, I am skeptic to sow direct on the ground. My strategy is to grow seedlings indoor until they are a good size and transplant to the Elisabeet ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, I sow 2 types (not sure if they are different kinds..) of Tagetes Erecta, Scabiosa Atropurpurea and Cosmos Sulphureus. I also got Coreopsis, but I decided to sow this a bit later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are how the seeds of each plants look like<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, I have no idea how deep they should be sown… so I started to watch a lot of youtube tutorials… and here are what I gathered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tagetes<\/strong>: soak in warm water for 5 hours and place it on the surface of the soil. cover gently.
Scabiosa<\/strong>: make a small 3mm deep hole, place one seed capsel (without breaking) and press it gently. do not cover (it needs light to germinate)
Cosmos<\/strong>: Stick the seed into the soil
Coreopsis<\/strong>: place it on the soil and cover gently. The seeds are very very small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then, I thought it will be nice to experiment having beans between the Persicaria Tinctoria plants as a collaboration plant. Beans fixes nitrogen to the soil, and Persicaria Tinctoria needs a lot of nitrogen. I guess it is usually used as alternating plant to fix nitrogen to soil and not grown at the same time… so not sure if it works. But I will try. In the worst case, we have beans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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24.April<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of them are already sprouting! How quick! Only Scabiosa is still quiet.. but I see some actions in the whole!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are my youtube research: How to sow Tagetes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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