I sowed my phacelia in the second week of September just to cover the empty beds: ten days later, the bare soil told me it was already too late
A gardener’s attempt to cover empty beds with phacelia in mid-September backfired when seeds refused to germinate—but the culprit wasn’t bad luck. Soil temperature, shrinking daylight, and a calendar that had already closed made late sowing a losing bet from the start.
