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I've just bought some Clueless. Now I've got to work out what to do with 10,000 seeds! Sowing time was September wasn't it? Okay, if I disappear in September and you don't see me on here until November you know I'm still out there!

 

Oh no... I bought two packets of poppy seeds a few weeks back after seeing it on fb..... Didn't think about them being native or not :/ I shall be buying the correct ones. Now if somebody can just tell me what to do with them

 

Put them in your garden anyway. I can't think of any poppy variety that isn't gorgeous. I just wouldn't release a non-native one into the wild, or indeed any of them without the landowner's permission.

 

I believe the poppy population increased considerably after the battles had finished and poppies grow in cornfields after the corn has been sown and is growing so not likely to be disturbed ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad someone has found the seeds at such great prices

 

Well hopefully by this time next year there will be many Rutland scenes across the country the area obviously hasn't been touched for many years and there must be many other sites that can be transformed

 

Armandii .... Thank you for clarifying whether or not Poppy's thrive in disturbed or undisturbed land
Tbh I was only quoting a previous message from zigs " They don't tolerate root disturbance at all well,". might get away with it in modules, but i'd do a quick test run this year, don't want folk coming back to you complaining .. But am confused at the later message from him ........ Anyway if we can all concentrate on one thing now ..... Raising awareness within our communities... Via schools, councils etc and gaining permission from the various authorities and landowners to sow the poppy seed.......

 

I understand now.

Poppies don't like to be transplanted.

 

I've just had a response from theBumblebee Conservation Trust

It looks like we may be able to work together to make this happen. That would be awesome. Here's what they've said.

So now its not just us lot. If these guys get involved, then that kind of raises the bar a little bit

 

Well that is fantastic news and makes this project totally credible..

By the end of next week I hopefully will have some similar fantastic news which could involve many schools ....... I promise to keep you posted as the information gets confirmed or not

 

For the last two years I've grown the large poppies (Papaver) from seed. I germinate them in a tray in a heated propagator, when they are large enough to handle I move them individually into six cell trays and they stay in those until I plant them out. I've not lost any yet so must be doing something right. I've had no success at all sowing seed directly into the ground.

 

That's what I'm doing ...sowing in cells