Propagation: How many seeds/containers are you planning?, 1 by soulgardenlove

soulgardenlove wrote:
Sunny, I am in your zone and we're neighbors. I was the queen of overzealous wintersowing this past year, I should give you some pointers.. First of all.. while it was lots and lots of fun to see all the seeds coming up, I don't have a full time staff to plant all this stuff and I still have plants in pots and thats after I gave all kind of stuff away.. However, now I know what seeds worked for me and which did not. From memory... No, excell spreadsheet!!

This picture is of all the pots and I just put the seeds in there. For me personally, I probably will not do it like this again.. if I direct seed like this, I will do it in a fertile place where I would like them to grow.. right in the garden.. It was wayyy toooo much to plant and now I know that. The next time I do it, I will try try try to collect as many small plastic coke containers as possible or half gallon milk jugs and give each 2-3 seeds depending on germination rates... Now it is a quandry to decided to do this as some seeds just plain did not germinate for me at all and it certainly is more work up front to put soil in each container and then patiently place the seed... as opposed to just filling up one container with seed and then seeing which do and which dont grow.. However, on the back side, once the seeds grow, if you are going to wintersow as much as I did, there was no way in tarnation I could plant as much as I sowed, and it would have been much more helpful for me to have had the plants in their individual containers so as to not have ripped them away at the roots from their brothers and sisters in the same pots.... This is only because I have 3 & 5 year olds and I am not assured the chance to get out there and plant before the plants start getting too large for the containers. This way, I could let things such as perenials get a little larger without the angst of knowing I was going to have to rip them away from each other and have them stressed, as I waitied too long to plant them out.

Onto the next picture..

Susan