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(about 3 to 5 feet) tall, with lobed or toothed silver-greenfoliage. The opium poppy is also grown for its nonnarcotic ripeseeds, which are used for seasoning, for oil, and in baked goods (seepoppy seed). White-, pink-, and red-flowered strains with double or semidouble blooms have...
Whether you plant poppy seeds in the fall or in spring, give them balanced fertilizer when they are 6 inches tall. Poppies should begin to bloom within three months of planting. To increase flowering, choose a low-nitrogen plant food, which you apply as soon as buds form. Amaryllis are fl...
If you plant seeds in late spring, give them a chill in the refrigerator for a month to stratify them before planting. Poppy roots should be planted with the crowns about 3 inches deep in the fall. They may sprout a little greenery before the winter but then go dormant and return in ...
how-to-germinate-poppy-seeds">How to Germinate Poppy Seeds Choose a location for your poppies that provides full sun for as much of the day as possible. Poppies do not grow well in even partial shade. Mix 3 to 4 inches of compost into the top 6 inches of soil at the planting site....
Once the flowers have faded and the seeds have been released, all you need to do is pull up the plants and add them to your compost. Be sure to shake out your poppies over the planting site after pulling them out of the ground to release any stubborn seeds that were not released by ...
Pinch off flowers as soon as they begin to fade. This process, called deadheading, prevents the plants from setting seeds too early. Then, remove the bloom and the stem down to the next leaf. Remove all seedpods at the end of the season if you don't want the Poppy to self-seed. Ho...
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Leave flowers on your plants after blooming if you want seeds for next year. Pods will burst open to self seed, or you can harvest pods and save seeds for your next planting. An established poppy garden, with a continuous cycle of new seedlings and established plants, produces yearly blooms...