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Foxglove from seed
Digitalis purpurea
- Germination temperature
- 65 to 70°F (18 to 21°C)
- Days to germinate
- 10 to 21 days
- Before sowing
- Nothing needed
- Start indoors
- 10 to 12 weeks before planting out
- Plant out
- 2 to 0 weeks before the last frost
- Spacing
- 9 to 12 in (23 to 30 cm)
Your dates from your last frost Seed not coming up?
Depth and light are not given by the source; follow your packet.
Sowing
Sow indoors 10 to 12 weeks before planting out (Johnny's). Germination takes 10 to 21 days at 65 to 70°F.
Care and transplanting
Biennial: leaf rosette in year one, spikes in year two. All parts are poisonous.
Problems
Rosettes rot in wet winter soil.
Saving seed
Collect dry capsules; plants self-sow.