Starting Zinnias From Seed - State Fair, Cut and Come Again and Envy Zinnias - June 2025
Last year, I direct-sowed zinnia seeds into the cut flower bed in our sideyard and into the vertical tower on our patio. And...it...well...worked. We grew Zinnias. But, this year I wanted to get them started a little bit earlier (not as early as I should have, though...) and decided to start some seeds indoors. I showed the three varieties of seeds we bought this year - earlier this winter/spring; Envy , State Fair and Cut and Come Again. I had some eight-cell packs on-hand from annuals that I put out front, so I filled those with a potting mix and tucked seeds into each cell. Pretty quickly, most of them germinated. I kept the seedlings in the screened porch and they started to grow up and get taller. In an attempt to keep them from getting too-leggy, I moved them outdoors as often as I could - weather-permitting. Below is a photo showing the two trays out on the patio - where they live all day...