I've had a good year too. I lost some early sprouts in January, but those flats sprouted other seedlings last month. So far I'm about 95% germinated. Fresh seeds are doing fine and older seeds I made a point of sowing heavily. I have light germination in my hollyhock flats but I'm not surprised by that.

This is my first year, and out of 39 containers sown, I have germination in 33 of them. The last few containers were sown about 3 weeks ago, so I haven't given up on the ones that haven't come up in that group yet. There are 2 containers that were sown in early February that never germinated, Agastache rupestris and Heuchera 'Palace Purple'. I even resowed a second packet of the Heuchera and got nothing out of that batch either. There were also a couple of containers that germinated, but then some of the sprouts withered away for various reasons, either from freezing temps, or too much sun, etc.

I'm definitely sold on WSing, though I wish I knew what I did wrong on the ones that didn't come up. It's too early for deciding what perennials to plant next year though. I still need to see how many sprouts make it through the summer, and how much room is left in my perennial beds by the end of the season. I know that I will definitely be sowing herbs, vegetables and annuals next year though.

I haven't counted everything yet, but it seems kind of half and half. For instance, today I planted out some asters, sunflowers, alyssum, dianthus, beets, and tomatoes, and those containers had almost 100% germination. On the other hand, I'm still waiting on a lot of things that are usually sprouted by now, and several containers have only one or two sprouts, when they are usually full, like marigolds and agastache.

Funny about the emilia. The first year I tried it, I had it coming out the ears. My germination on this has gone done each of the last three years I've sown it. So far, not a single sprout this year. Hoping for some self-sowers at least.

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Dee

Still sprouting like crazy here and from what I can tell, it will be a very good year. Some things are germinating quite early - especially perennials. Usually, winter sown Buddleias here germinate in late May, but some have sprouted big time already!! Well over 50% of my containers have green so I expect that by the time June rolls around I will be over 90% again. This is too good for the fifth year in a row. Lovin' every minute of it!!

459 of 720 for me, or roughly 64%. Like Tiffy, I expect germination through June, although it will slow down a bit after next week. I have a few containers I know won't sprout - a couple of alyssum duds, a bachelor button that sat there and did nothing - but I plant so many, it doesn't matter. I'll probably top out at about 70%.

Today I potted up some of the snaps, echinaceas, & lupines to give to friends and relatives over the weekend. Gently covered two trays of frost sensitives - it's close to light frost temp here tonight, and expected to hit freeze temps tomorrow night. After that we should be home free.

I do pretty well at keeping records of what goes where (I don't use labels in the garden) - but I DO have a few healthy looking mysteries!

I started with 68 containers but haven't taken final counts on germination yet.

Of 3 types of echinacea, I got sprouts, but very few, on 2 types. The Doppelganger (2 sprouts) are finally growing. The 3 Magnus seedlings are stuck in seed leaf stage. Emilia germinated well, but seedlings are turning purple and also not growing. Salvia- good germ only on the Yvonne's so far out of 5 or 6 types of salvia. Rudbeckia Prarie Sun poor, but Irish Eyes doing well. Also poor germ on the Origami columbine so far. Great germ on all zinnia and I started planting those out yesterday. The Bells of Ireland (seeds dated '05) only 2 seedlings. Melampodium, of course, grew like crazy, even thru that Easter freeze. They got frost bite around the leaf edges but kept growing. Poor germ on Agastache purple pygmy. Two seedlings on butterfly weed. I planted those because I moved 2 of mine last fall and thought I'd killed them, but they are indeed coming back, so I'll give away the 2 new seedlings. Mixed results on nasties, varying by type.

So, so far I can't complain. As I plant out I hope more seedlings will pop out of that potting soil in the ground.

Karen

Stuff I thought would, didn't. Stuff I thought wouldn't, did. Won't give up on the no-sprouts yet however. I remember those lazy daturas from last year!
Have to convince hubby that the bottles are still not "An eyesore".
(Pot calling the kettle black) (LOL)