Learn to Winter Sow

Liza is trying to Winter Sow for the first time.    She took milk jugs, water bottles any clear plastic container, cut them about 3/4 around, punched  hole’s in each side to allow closing using pipe cleaner.  Used a seed growing medium, scattered some seeds in them.  She labeled each one and placed them out along the garden fence in the cold.   You do not cover them. The plan is that the seeds will go through the same cycle they would if they had fallen on the ground and gone through the winter.  When warm weather comes the bottles will act like mini cold frames and help the germination process.    Most of the seeds were seeds from our garden or through seed swapping.   You can check out wintersown.org for specific directions…

Here is Liza’s list of what she has sown so far.

WINTER SOWING

A Soul mate Butterfly weed

A-l Pink Colada Phlox l4-l6”

B Hardy Hibiscus White

B-1 Pink Phlox

C Pink Coneflower

c-1 Purple & white Datura 2008 lw seed

D Hardy Hibiscus Red

D-1 Purple Datura from swap

E Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset (Dave)

E-l Tall Mix Morning Glories

F Eryngium blue glitter (Sea Holly)

F-1 Purple Cleome

G Echinacea White Swan

H Pink Cone Flower

I Monarda Red

J Monarda Purple

J Monkey Grass

K Pink Bee Balm

L Blanket Flower

M Pink Aster

N Gaillardia blanket flower

O Gaillardia Golden goblin all yellow short l2” plant from swap

P Tall purple Phlox (lw)

This weekend we are going to try some more.  Vegetables like Broccoli and other cold climate vegetables and a few other flowers.  Some of what we are trying may not need to go through the cold process but  we are trying everything.  We do have a couple of Hoop Houses we could set up when it warms up a little and we may do that.  We will be also starting some plants inside like we have always done.   Time will tell what worked and what did not but it will all be in fun and a good learning experience..

I realize I have not posted much lately.   Will be posting more now that we are back from Florida .  Also now have a high-speed connection in Florida but will have to refine it a little more next trip down.

NO SNOW TODAY

It’s Wednesday Morning, the sun is shinning.  After several days of snowy cloudy weather the sun has come out.  Clear blue sky and the temperature is rising.  Liza was out early this morning taking pictures as the sun rose.

Not much activity at the bird feeders this morning.  No sign of any deer traffic last night either.  Very quite out there as the snow falls from the trees.

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