I have the winter blues! I decided to start my vegetable seeds over the week-end. Planning my garden takes the blues away. This year, I decided to try winter sowing. I've been saving plastic liter, juice and milk bottles. Anything that I can cut and punch holes in the bottom for drainage. I started about 20 bottles over the week-end. Tomatoes, dill, zuchinni, squash, sunflowers and petunias. Tomatoes, dill and petunias reseed, so hopefully I will have a successful germination rate. Research showed that the squash and zuchinni will also do well. l will continue winter sowing through-out February. I'll start a few tomatoes, cukes and greenbeans inside to ensure I have something to plant. I set these bottles outside my kitchen door, but will eventually move them to my picnic table. It had just started snowing, so they received a nice coating.
Stay tuned for additional posts. If you are a gardener and use the winter sowing method, please share your experience.
You have a good variety of plants started. I hope you have much success. I've only done winter sowing for flowers. Time to plan my garden too. I really need to see what seeds I have/need.
ReplyDelete@Gardener on Sherlock - I'll be doing flowers this week-end. I did a few marigolds and left them on the dining room table. They've sprouted. I guess they'll go under the heat lights.
ReplyDeleteThe winter blues are beginning to creep up on all of us. I keep having to remind myself where you live--West Virginia. I've never been there. You have quite a bit of snow. Did you get any from this current storm? We have none. We need lots. I will be watching to see how your seed starts grow. Good luck.
ReplyDelete@Ann - We haven't had much snow this year, hope I don't jinx myself. I'm just not fond of winter! I live close to DC, about 1 1/2 hrs away, so what affects them usually hits my area. I think we've average 6 inches so far this year. Had a white Christmas, which is always nice.
ReplyDeleteImpressive!!!
ReplyDeleteI just started winter sowing for the first time this week! I'm really excited. I'm in northern VA and tucked my containers into the mulch a bit since we don't have any snow cover. I'm sowing flowers, herbs, and just a few tomato seeds. Have you winter sown before or is this your first time, too?
ReplyDeleteNice to have a fellow gardener so close. This is my first time winter sowing. I'm also anxious to see how this works out. I'm starting a few seeds inside, just in case it doesn't work for me. Starting following your blog, it's nice to have someone gardening in the same zone.
DeleteNice! Don't you just love winter sowing! :-)
ReplyDelete@Amy Andrychowicz - This is my first time winter sowing. I'm anixous to see if it produces for me. If so, I plan to scale back my indoor seeding.
ReplyDeleteRhonda, we kicked butt on winter sowing here in Zone 6. I did a couple of flowers but mostly vegetables, and the crops in the cold frame also did well. I've got another 75 containers to get done over the next few days. I have 79 different vegetables going into the garden and I like the benefits of WS.
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