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Planting perennial and annual seeds together? (self.gardening)

submitted 8 months ago by profdc9 to c/gardening

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I would like to get plots started with perennial flower seeds. However, it seems like the weeds will overgrow the plots while the perennial seeds get started.

Could I mix perennial and annual flower seeds and have the annuals try and crowd out the weeds while the perennials take root and come back next year more strongly? Or will the annual seeds prevent the perennial seeds from growing?

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[–] The_v 3 points 8 months ago

My front flower bed is mix of annuals, biennials, and perennials.

I reseed some more every spring. Not everything survives but enough does to make it a nice little mass of color. I have had some perennials/biennials remain dormant for an entire year and germinate the next one.

It's completely overcrowded mess where there's always a few weeds that nobody sees.