FREE: Fireweed Seeds 25+ ~ Make your own honeyt!

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Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) is a wildflower, attracts bees that benefit any garden and is a plant you can use to make honey! There are two types of fireweed honey: one bees make and one you can make with this beautiful, but purposeful flower. Fireweed has bright purple flowers, but the leaves are used for infusing to create an herbal honey and can be made either dried or fresh fireweed.
Directions:
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Fireweed grows well from seeds planted directly into the ground as long as you live in a climate with adequate moisture. If summer temperatures are high in your region, fireweed will stop blooming but will develop new blossoms in the fall as temperatures moderate.
This perennial plant can reach heights of up to 5 feet and has spiky green leaves and large tube-shaped flowers in various shades of purple. Considered a perennial/biennial flower, it typically does not bloom until the second year after planting.

Instructions to plant from seed:
1.Place the fireweed seeds in a plastic food storage bag in late summer and seal the bag tightly. Insert the bag into a refrigerator that maintains a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit and leave it there for 40 days.
2.Look for a planting site that has full to partial sunlight and moist to slightly soggy soil. Good locations are near bodies of water such as streams, bogs or drainage ditches or under a canopy of trees.
3.Pull up all weeds and other vegetation in the area. Spread an all-purpose fertilizer over the soil using the amount specified on the fertilizer label. Mix the fertilizer into the top 5 to 6 inches of the soil using a pitchfork or a shovel. Smooth the top of the soil out evenly, but do not pack it down.