Firevicar's Third Annual Seed Sowing Event

I'm pretty sure this is the third year . . .

www.holycrossredmond.org/greenelephant.htm

I've not been able to get to this event in years past, but it surely sounds like fun. Maybe this year will be my year to go. I got out my seed box to look through, and I admit to a lack of knowledge about how and when to plant many of them. I have no problem with the veggies since I've done them for years, but I am at a loss about many ornamental plants. I have a growing collection of seeds thinking I will get to the planning and collecting containers, labels etc. to make planting them a possible venture. Now I am wondering which of them can be winter sown successfully. Most packages have no instructions and I have no clue. Anyway, here is a partial list of the contents of my box:
Echinacea
Columbine
Veronica
4 o'clocks
Trumpet lily
yellow bellflower (campanula thyrsoides)
Knautia macedonica
Purple veil flower
Agastache rupestris
Alstroemeria
Aristea ecklonii
Agapanthus
Rudbeckia

Any information about when to plant, what conditions needed (outdoors, inside under lights, direct seed but wait til spring.....) and how deep or on soil surface, or anything else that might help is greatly appreciated.

Holly, here is a great site for seed sowing instructions. http://www.backyardgardener.com/tm1.html

I ws a lot of milk jugs last year and had great success. I covered most of them with a sprinkling of vermiculite, but now I do not know why! I started the 4's in the GH, I really wanted them to germinate and was afraid to trust the WS completely. I am going to WS some of them this year.

I have a ton of seeds if you want to try some others.

Save those milk jugs and plastic containers!

That is an amazing list on that site!! I have started collecting jugs too.

I printed those pages so I can reference them when needed.

Holly, any hardy perennial that is from a part of the world that gets weather colder than ours can be winter sown. Some do better with winter sowing than waiting until spring. Only thing you have to be aware of, of course, is the water issue. Most seeds don't want to sit in soggy soil. I always add a considerable amount of sand and chick grit to my containters, and I top off the containers with grit.

Lynn, are you going to the winter sowing event? Holly, did you decide?

I haven't decided yet. Are you going? If someone wants to go with me, they could easily make up my mind!

I'm thinking about it but haven't made up my mind, yet! LOL! I think it depends on my work schedule that week.