This is your two minute warning, or actually, your four
month warning.
It’s time to start the petunias!
Okay, maybe you're not concerned. Maybe, like I’ve been told
by at least one reader, you skip the garden posts on this blog. Fine. I take no
offense. Really. I’ll just pick up my trusty trowel and slink away.
But for the rest of you – aren’t you itching for a little
summer? Or more importantly, do you spend much too much money on annuals each summer?
Have you ever purchased happy little seed packets of annual flowers, only to be
disappointed when all they produce is leaves and die before a proper bloom can
happen?
We are such suckers for a pretty picture. I gave up on the
seeds years ago and started buying flats of annuals instead. It ate at me,
though, because they cost a fortune and I am nothing if not a skin-flint. Yet I
could never resist, especially the wave petunias.
Petunias are happy flowers, and better yet, they’re
resilient. The perfect flower for the easily distracted gardener. They can look
nearly dead one day, but a little splash of water and they offer a dozen more
trumpet-blooms within hours.
They’re worth the price tag, right? Maybe. But what if you
didn’t have to pay it? What if you could grow wave petunias from seeds? Instead
of paying $5-8 for one wave petunia, what if you could pay $1.75 for eight? You
can. But you need to get started.
There’s really only
one trick to growing your own gorgeous wave petunias from inexpensive seeds,
like mine….
