Cut and Come Again Zinnia Seeds Direct Sown - June 2024
Day four of Zinnia-mania - but now we move from beyond IB2DWs to the new cut flower bed that I carved out on the side of our house. For 2024 plantings with Zinnias, I first posted the details of some common orange Zinnias that I planted as bedding plants . A day earlier, I planted a larger, further-along Uproar Rose Zinnia from the nursery. Then, yesterday I planted a Zowie Yellow Flame Zinnia in the conifer garden IB2DWs . I pinched off all the blooms on these to try to get them to grow a bit more bushier. But, I'm also going full-on Zinnia Chaos Gardener with the new bed on the southside of the house . I bought a couple of packets of Cut-and-Come-Again Zinnias and decided to direct sow them in the bed. Did I evenly space them? No, just kind-of scattered them. Here's the bed recently planted - you can see anything but loam/dirt/mulch/compost/biosolids of course: I also put some in the Greenstalk tower. But, that's not all. Last Fall, I collected some Zin