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I hope mid-March isn't too late to start wintersowing in zone 5a, because after lurking and reading here for a few weeks (somewhat obsessively, I may add), I decided to give it a shot with a bunch of seeds. Some I tried both wintersowing and starting indoors, so I can compare, and others I just tried wintersowing and crossed my fingers!
Of course, I am not doing quite the scale most of you are (WOW, am I impressed!), but I'll try to post a picture of my hodge-podge of containers when I figure out how. I've actually kept up on dropping off my recycling this year, and now I regret it! I have a friend saving me milk jugs, though. Her boys go through 8 gallons a week! We have milk allergies in the house, so we usually buy in the returnable glass half-gallons, not so good for wintersowing. I just starting buying the plastic jugs again, and am trying to get my non-allergic son to drink lots! LOL In the meantime, I have lots of half-gallon cartons from soy milk, and nice rectangular Ocean Spray juice bottles, and scads of water bottles and margarine tubs!
Anyway, I tried wintersowing:
marigolds, agastache, lupines, poppies, heliopsis, nigelia, bronze fennel, swamp milkweed, and anise.
I also have ordered a bunch of zinnias and dianthus seeds, so will try some of them when they come in.
I need to figure out the WS database. Seems like I could learn a lot about what you can and cannot wintersow there! I got a bunch of seeds from DG member critterologist, and she kindly marked which were good for wintersowing, so at least I know I'm on the right track there!
So glad I found this forum (thanks, critterologist!). This sounds like such a practical way to start seeds, I just may get addicted and forget about all my little seed flats with individual cells.
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