I am a farmer and my husband and I regularly uses all manner of chemicals on our paddocks as do most non organic farmers so that we can get the most out of the crops. I fully understand your concerns but it is unfortunately, the nature of the beast that people want hay and crops without weeds. My husband has done a chemical users course and has been trained in the correct use of the chemicals he both uses and doesn't use and I believe is very well informed. Have either of you done a course??...just read internet information? If you were a broadacre farmer, you might as well sell up as not use chemicals unfortunately!! I haven't told anyone that they must use glyphosate, my response came from questions asked.

I think it takes 80-95 days from seed to flower. Since winter sowing will let the seeds germinate as the soil warms , it may not allow the seeds to be ready by May 30. I would try starting them inside with grow lights and a warming pad under them to get them started right away. Good luck with the wedding.

This past spring I opted to go WILD due to the late spring. I purchased a bag of wild flowers, some of which were perennials. Does dead heading also apply to these splendid flowers? Will they bloom next year?? It seems that they also attract little yellow birds and a host of bees and butterflies. I would love to see them reappear next season. Please advise! file:///Users/walterfritschjr/Pictures/Photos%20Library.photoslibrary/Thumbnails/2015/08/16/20150816-192238/3hdMtSBuT2yTCmhdM+6y7Q/thumb_P8152267_1024.jpgfile:///Users/walterfritschjr/Pictures/Photos%20Library.photoslibrary/Thumbnails/2015/08/16/20150816-192238/pJwxrzLuQV6Q2gfv5X9IPw/thumb_P8152264_1024.jpgfile:///Users/walterfritschjr/Pictures/Photos%20Library.photoslibrary/Thumbnails/2015/08/16/20150816-192238/3hdMtSBuT2yTCmhdM+6y7Q/thumb_P8152267_1024.jpg

I am growing roses but also trying my luck with a beefsteak tomato plant and a cherry one. I also brought back some rhubarb from the house where I used to live and planted it here. Also chives. I have never seen chives get this big!!! The ones we used to grow were almost half the size of the ones we had at the house. For the rhubarb I read somewhere where one could not pick any when it is in its first year. Is this because it needs to get established?? I left it too late to actually dig up the roots as two thirds of it already had big leaves on it. So I went to the end of the row where the leaves were smaller and dug up about 4 or 5 of them. Two of them are going like gangbusters. But the ones our apartment hired to do the gardens we all swear they don't know a flower from a weed. In fact people have planted stuff and then they come along and pull them out. I think they did that with one of the rhubarb plants. Then there was an iris growing there and it got the stalk with this big bud on it ready to open and then they come along and cut the stalk with the bud on it off when I imagine using the whipper thing. I always check my roses every day and so far none of them have suffered the same fate. I guess they know what roses are. I would love to have a garden and grow zucchini, leaf lettuce but there is no room for me to put them. There are gardens other people are using to grow their vegetables in and this one woman I asked regarding hers last year but she said she needed it to plant herbs in and whatnot but not flowers. Well this year she had to give it up as she was too busy working at the PO to look after it. I had no idea it was available and the payoff was the husband and wife that just moved into the apartment this year they up and used it to grow their vegetables in.