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Poppies: 2nd year failure in a row - Unable to grow

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sublimaze1
Frisco, TX
(Zone 7b)

May 31, 2007
02:24 PM

Post #3557973

I have tried to grow poppies two years in a row.

The first year, I fall sowed. I had some leafy growth, but I think the birds or bunnies ate them in the end of the 2005 calendar year.

This past year, I winter sowed - and (again) had some growth. I put them in the back of my garden (fenced and chicken wired) but they still failed.

This winter, I am thinking about indoor sowing them, but would like to know what things I should be doing, or not be doing.

I am frustrated, but not out of the game - yet! It is now a quest.

I also am not too happy to buy seedlings and transplant ... that takes the challenge out of it.

Thanks in advance.

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