Pre-Season Treats

Pre-Season Hellebore 
The genus is native to much of Europe, from western Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, eastward across the Mediterranean region and central Europe into Romania and Ukraine, and along the north coast of Turkey into the Caucasus. The greatest concentration of species occurs in the Balkans. One atypical species (H. thibetanus) comes from western [...]

More Gardening Ideas

Problem #1:  Seeds have to be moist enough to germinate, dry enough   that the fungi don’t move in, in soil damp enough to keep them going, but with enough air spaces that oxygen can get to the seeds and the roots.
 
General solution: a well-drained potting soil, and plastic pots with good drainage holes.  Keep soil about as moist [...]