Heating Gives a Head Start ; Make a Head Start On Your Seed Sowing by Investing in a Heated Propagator, Advises Hannah Stephenson.

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IF you don't have a heated greenhouse and want to start your seeds off early to give you a head start on spring, it's time to invest in a heated propagator. Not only can you sow slow-growing tender perennials such as geraniums now, so they start flowering in time for summer, but you can also sow seeds of houseplants, tuberous begonias and exotics such as birds of paradise (Strelitzia reginae), and even perennials.

First-year flowering perennials which can be sown early in heated propagators then grown on in a greenhouse or cool room include achillea, helenium, echinacea and salvia. They can be hardened off in early May and planted in their final position a few weeks later.

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Heating Gives a Head Start ; Make a Head Start On Your Seed Sowing by Investing in a Heated Propagator, Advises Hannah Stephenson.

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