Description

Mr Fothergill’s Viola Chicky Chicks Seeds, Colourful little blooms for much of the year. Remove dead flowers to prolong flowering. A feed in late summer will help keep plants flowering longer and produce more blooms.

Sow indoors, a warm kitchen windowsill is all you need for starting these seeds. Sow 0.5cm deep, in a tray of compost. Water well and place in a temperature of 15-20°C. Seedlings usually appear in 14-28 days. Keep moist. Transplant to other trays 5cm apart when large enough to handle. (Always hold seedlings by a leaf, never by the stem.) Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions (avoid frosts), before planting out to flowering position, allowing 15cm between plants. Early sowings will flower the same year. Those from July onwards will flower the following spring. Remove dead flowers to prolong flowering.

• A hardy perennial, best grown as biennial or annual
• Cheeky ‘faces’, ideal for beds, edging and containers
• Flowers the same year from an early sowing

Sow time: Mar-Sep
Flowering/Harvesting time: Feb-Nov