Oh dear me..

So! Woke up this morning, beautiful sunshine, made a post or two on here, coffee and cig in the garden with the dog and decided sweet peas need to be moved to some bigger pots and thinned out a bit.. All sounds like a wonderful morning indeed.

Until I got to the seedlings on the windowsills and found that my forever helpful cat decided he would help with those too

So I now have 20 odd pots on my bedroom windowsill that aren't labelled, at all. I know which the sweet peas, sunflowers and marigolds are but as to the rest.. no idea!

How soon can you very clever lot id seedlings? I know what I should have but which is which I have no idea and right now they pretty much all look the same to me!

I'm just glad our cockatiel can't get to them, it's hard enough watching the cat it seems!

 

Marigolds should be obvious once the 'true' leaves appear, as they have serated edges and usually bronzed. Unless you're growing English Marigolds, in which case, more difficult...

Sweetpeas will shoot up quite quickly so they too will be obvious...

Which just leaves the sunflowers! They have thick stems, in preparation for tall growth later on...

 

Sorry sussex, don't think I made that very clear, my bad!

I know which those three are, it's the other 17 or so pots that are currently a mystery lol! Some haven't yet popped up but there are corn flowers, lupins, holyhocks, cosmos, morning glory and a whole host of others that are unlabelled and that is where my little oh dear comes in. I can get some piccies up but I don't know whether it'll be too early to Id them, I guess unless I pop some up, I won't know!

 

oh maddie that will be fun! what else did you plant?

loopy

 

Most seeds will be easy to identify, once the 'true' leaves come through, as I said before. Lupins will be incredibly easy to spot because of their distinctive leaves and I could spot Morning Glory a mile off (there's a joke in there I think...).

Maybe wait until they have properly sprouted and grow proper leaves before posting pictures. We wait with baited breath...

 

Thanks guys, I'll give it a week or two before posting up some pics then.

What else is planted? Lets see.. Corn flowers, Cosmos, Holyhocks, Poppys, Lupins, Sweet scented Stock - two varieties, Pansies, Morning Glory, Various Herbs but they'll show themselves right enough in a week or two so probably won't need a hand with those, Dahlias, some large Daisies which I can't for the life of me remember the name of just now - two varieties, a Chilean glory vine, Clematis and Cerinthe. A few others too but off the top of my head that is all I can remember just now.

Fun fun fun lol!

 

Maddie - as SussexG said - they will be pretty easy to identify once they have some true leaves. You just need to get a list of what you have sown, and then start to cross them off.

Cosmos are fairly distinctive early on, they will have long stems, and many of my seedlings have stems that lie half on the ground. They look as if they are very leggy - but they are OK. When the true leaves appear they will be very finely divided and quite unlike others. I mention Cosmos because of all the seeds you have mentioned these are not hardy, and if you put them out too early in a cold spell (even if its above freezing) they can sulk and never fully recover. So put your Cosmos out 2 or 3 weeks after everything else.

By the way those long and bent stems are no problem. You just put the seedlings deep in a pot and fill with compost till the leaves are only just above the compost level. That way you have buried the problem and they will be fine from there on.