This is the best way to proceed

Using seeds that you've collected from old plants, you're working with one, so to speak "Lucky bag", because you do not know which hereditary properties of the parent plants are in your young plants will prevail.

Sow indoors

In March or April the time has come for the Cosmea sow on the windowsill or in a warm greenhouse. Fill a vessel with nutrient-poor Growing substrate(€ 12.99 at Amazon *) or earth mixed with sand. Then sprinkle the small seeds on top and some soil over them.

Moisten the whole thing carefully and regularly with a water sprayer and place the cultivation vessel in a warm place, preferably on the windowsill. At around 20 ° C, after approx. The first seedlings can be seen 14-21 days.

Sow in the field

If you would like to sow the jewelry basket directly in the field, then you have to wait until mid or late May. Ideally, you should only sow after the ice saints so that your seedlings do not freeze. Here, too, the soil should be poor in nutrients and kept evenly moist. The beginning of the

Heyday shifts back a few weeks, however, because the plants have to grow up first.

Unwanted propagation through self-sowing

In contrast to the plants, the seeds are the cosmea hardy. They can withstand frost and germinate in the next spring without any problems. New cosmeen often grow unplanned at the old location, even if this bed is now intended for other plants. Weeding can be a nuisance under certain circumstances. However, you can also simply relocate the unwanted plants to another location.

The essentials in brief:

• very small seeds
• Self-sowing often
• Seeds can be collected and dried
• sowing in the house from the end of February
• Outdoor sowing from mid-May
• cover only thinly with soil or substrate
• Germination temperature: approx. 20 ° C
• Germination time: 14 - 21 days