When to start rudbeckia seeds indoors
HOW TO GROW RUDBECKIA BLACK EYED SUSAN FROM SEED / SOWING / SEED SAVING // A BEAUTIFUL NEST
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welcome back beautiful nesters I hope
you all are blessed in doing well today
I'm going to show you my process of
sowing the black-eyed Susan or the
Rebecca from seed I absolutely love this
flower it is a beautiful flower to add
to your garden it brings in beneficial
insects it is actually a medicinal plant
as well it is an excellent at flower and
it is stunning in a cottage garden so
let's go ahead and get into it and with
sorna seed so here I have a saved seed
head from one of my black-eyed Susan so
that black completely try and you can
definitely purchase these seeds and they
look like this they're really tiny black
seeds
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and what you want to do if you're sewing
them directly outside or in the
container you can just scratch up the
soil just work the soil up there's the
black-eyed Susan needs
Sun to germinate so it needs light to
germinate and you can germinate these
inside by a windowsill but I'm gonna
work up the surface of the soil and just
cast them just broadcast them in the
area where I want them to grow if you
want a multiple mass of them then you
make sure that you would broadcast them
in the general area and keep them more
closer together they will grow to about
2 to 3 feet tall some grow a little
smaller shorter to the ground about 1 to
2 feet depending on the type of like I
Susan you have and this particular one
that I have though will get that large
it's about 3 feet tall so once you've
broadcast your seeds where you would
like them to grow you would just take
them and press them into the soil you
can do that with your glove with your
hands with your foot you can just step
on them you just want to make sure that
they make contact with the soil and then
you're gonna water them in we've had a
lot of rain in the past couple of days
so it won't be any need for me to water
these in the soil is already really damp
I'm gonna show you now they look like
once they germinate so I have started
some seeds inside and I just germinated
these right in front of my windowsill I
have a container that I put holes in the
bottom of and I have a nice seat
starting mix for my soil medium and I
just broadcasted the seeds across the
soil and I watered them in and I set
them in front of the window with a lid
on top and they germinated in about two
days I'm going to go ahead and prick
these out once they get their true
leaves and I'm gonna transplant them
where I would want them to go you know a
couple of weeks they'll grow a bit
taller and a little bit stronger and
then they get their secondary leaves
they have more of a fuzzy type of stem
and fuzzy leaves alright so this is what
the seedling looks like after a few
weeks about four or five weeks into its
growth
and then maybe a month or so it'll just
start taking off once it starts to warm
up there a Rebecca really really loves
the Sun so it takes off this plant grows
best in Sun but you know it can take
part shade it just may not do as well
for you but it will bloom in the summer
all the way to the frost hits it so I
really really love it if it starts
looking kind of raggedy you can always
just cut it down a little bit and it
will continue to grow for you I really
love when I start seeing the butts of
the black-eyed Susan up here oh my gosh
it's such a beautiful thing to see it
and then when the buds start opening it
is a bright in sunny addition to your
garden
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last season I had a little group of
black-eyed Susans where I had a face
'edit flower in the garden and it was
the strangest thing
it looks so crazy I just freaked out
when I saw it because I thought it was
just so fascinating so this is what the
face II ate it bloom looks like it
actually doesn't affect any of the other
flowers it only affects just that one
flower so if that happens to you and you
see it it won't just spread through your
garden or all of your blooms will be
affected in this way it just so happens
every now and then
all right so now on to saving seed what
happens planning your garden there will
be no need to purchase any more seeds
because you can definitely save the
seeds yourself or let it self seed in
your garden so here I have some seed
heads and I'm going to harvest and these
will I'm going to spread these around in
my garden what I like about the
black-eyed Susan is that it will bloom
the first year so when you plant this
you will see a bloom the first season so
I just cut the seed heads off and I put
them in a brown paper sack and I
continue to let them dry off but they
drive I could teach and let them dry out
but they have dried out quite a bit
already in the Sun
alright guys so here we are here looking
at this particular one right here so
this is your seed head okay and then I'm
gonna follow that stem all the way down
to a joint there but it doesn't have any
other branches coming off of it so it's
just a single stem and I'm going to come
down and at an angle so the stem can
receive more water I'm going to cut it
at an angle there okay and let's do
another one maybe I can get a little
closer I'm putting a little paper sack
because the seeds will just start
falling out
so here's one this one's a dry head
looks like the Seas have started to fall
out or it looks like the Birdseye
getting it so follow it now so it comes
to another joint there cut it
and we have it and I would just prune
back this entire bed and it's going to
there'll be new growth coming from this
plant so I'm not worried about it I'm
not worried about it at all it's had one
the first flush was absolutely stunning
I showed it to you guys and I'll show it
to you again so you can take a look at
it the black-eyed Susan is a biannual or
a short-lived perennial so you will get
a long life out of the black-eyed Susan
and it will sell seed itself around your
garden and if you find that you know it
becomes a nuisance that you don't want
it somewhere you can just pull it out
and just move it to where you want it to
be it's really easy and then I'll
periodically water them as needed
they're not fussy plants they don't need
a lot of water so that's what I really
love about them they can grow almost
anywhere in poor soil and rich soil on
side banks and metals and fields they
grow anywhere there are really fuss free
plant
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and that is it that is how I sew and
grow they black out season for fee
Rebecca from seed I had this beautiful
flower to your garden and you will not
regret it
enjoy your garden happy gardening
bye
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