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By George Rowand Times-Democrat Staff Writer have a bet with my wife. Last month, as I was looking through the seed catalogs that descended on our household like in-laws after you hit the lottery, she scoffed at an idea of mine. “You can’t get impatiens to grow and flower from seed,” the wife challenged. “I’ll bet you $10 that you can’t.” I took that as an affront to my green thumb. Since then I have spent every waking hour (even some time when I’m supposed to be writing at work, if you can believe that) thinking about seeds and their propagation. / The impatiens weYe talking about here are not some run-of-the-mill kind. We’re talking about the African Queen variety, the only yellow impatiens around, and the Blue Angel impatiens, from the Himalayas. If one buys them as plants, they’re almost $2 a plant. “Why not get a pack of 25 seeds for $3,” I thought, “and grow my own?” When I voiced that idea, that’s when the wife gave me her two cents worth of opinion. I had to admit, however, that the lady did have history in her comer. Last March I bought potting soil and seed trays and started planting the little seeds. The trays had a clear plastic dome overhead to hold in the heat and moisture, and in ’time, tiny green shoots started appearing. I was on my way!
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