Where and when can I buy Forget Me Not Plants?

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  1. shiney

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    @Jungle Jane I don't know how far away from us you are (we live in the same county) but you're welcome to come round and dig some up. If you wish I can check how much we have as Mrs Shiney has been digging them out and chucking them. They tend to get rather rampant.

    You can PM me with where you live. :)
     
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      Had a delivery of 75L Wicks cheapest multi compost. Wasn't brilliant compost and some other seeds didn't take, but that's how things 'roll' these days.

      Yes I put drainage holes in the bottom of the food tray (using a soldering iron in the fresh air), also put a small patch at the bottom of fine plastic gauze to stop devil root cutters getting in.

      The trays were put in a clear plastic storage container/box with holes in the lid and base (I also put a layer of fleece at the bottom to double deter those root cutters). The container/boxes are placed in a spot in the garden where the rain can drip through the lid holes (though keep a check). Hope this makes sense - this works for me.


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        If you want to save the seed, or sow it in pots/trays/cells, pull up a dead/dying plant and shake it over a sheet of newspaper or a large tray (without holes). You'll get quite a lot of chaff (particularly if you've left them so long that he whole plant has gone black/brown) but also lots of shiny black seeds. Purists would separate the seed from the chaff before storing or sowing.

        I usually just shake them over the borders roughly where I want them to be next year, and they'll also have already shed some of the seed before I get to pulling them out.
         
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