How easy is it to grow Sweet Asslyum?

Question

Do you just throw seeds out like you would zinnias?

do they grow really easy? do they like part shade?

do you do it each year?

Answer 1

Sweet Alyssum is very easy to grow, it is a more tender plant than a Zinnia and sprouts sooner than a Zinnia. It depends on where you live as to when it is safe to start sowing seed. If you are buying prepackaged seed, follow the directions on back and know your zone. If you don't want to prepare your soil and plant in a design,and you just want to scatter them along where the Zinnias bloomed last year, then do it that way and look at it as a test, or do half and half, prepare a bed with half and scatter the other half on natural ground, keep your seeds moist, until you see new green growth,after the new growth begins, scatter a time released fertilizer around the ground, if mother nature don't furnish water, then you will have to. When you grow seeds in nature it become survival if the fittess,but you can help them along.. Good luck to you, All things are first started from seed. My grandmother grew all her plants from seed year after year, or cuttings from someone Else's plants.

Answer 2

Allysum is a piece of cake. In this past year mine have withstood weather ranging from four nights of 25 degrees to weeks of 110 degrees. Just rough up your soil with a rake and sprinkle the seeds. Then go back and pat all the soil down and water with a heavy mist or a light sprinkle a few times a day until they sprout. They will flower all year and come in a choice of beautiful colors. One plant will grow a foot wide. If they get leggy looking just pull the plant and new seedlings will sprout in a few days. They won't climb trees or walls but will hang over the edges of planters or walls. They will grow in sun and shade. All you have to provide is the water. And you only have to plant them once.