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Love-in-a-mist (Nigella species) Planting Calculator
Nigella species
Everything you need to plan Love-in-a-mist (Nigella species): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 9″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 85 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 28 days
- Start indoors
- 4 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- Medium producer
- Hardy annual
Plan your Love-in-a-mist (Nigella species) beds
Prefilled with Love-in-a-mist (Nigella species)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 9″Range null–null″
Your plan
326
Total plants
Based on 1.63 plants/sq ft at 9″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 359
- 72-cell trays needed
- 5
- 128-cell trays needed
- 3
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Planning notes
- Landscape fabric
Medium producer. A planting stays productive across a more limited window, so closer succession timing helps keep supply steady.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.