EASY PROPAGATION
Late February is a good time to give annuals a head start, provided you have a warm, light, frost-free place where you can position seed pots and trays
At the end of this month, you can start sowing annuals in a warm, light place indoors. Get them off to an early start by sowing them in the greenhouse or on a warm, sunny windowsill, ready for planting out when the weather is milder. By then, these early starters will have made fairly large plants. Get them underway now, then sow more outside in late spring and you can have a steady supply of colourful annual flowers that last all summer long.
Sow both tender and hardy annuals if you’re sowing in a heated greenhouse or indoors. Snapdragons, lobelia, nicotiana, cosmos, salvia, rudbeckia and cleome can all be started off this month as long as they are in a bright spot that maintains awarm temperature.
How to sow
Use seed trays if you’re sowing lots of seed; small pots will be fine for smaller sowings.
1 Fill the tray or pot with seed compost. This is a low-nutrient, finely sieved mix that’s ideal for germinating seeds. Remove excess compost, then use a piece of stout cardboard cut to the size of the tray (or the bottom of another container) to
