Winter Sowing - 2010 - things rolling right a long #2

i was talking about dusty miller, sorry for the confusion.

I'll be ws in the next 3 weeks, starting tomorrow to get all of my jugs ready, then the following week, put soil and seeds in then outside they go...LOL

Wish it would have been this week as we have 10" of fresh snow, and if my babies would have been out there they would have had a nice blanket for a while. But to start now is way to early for my area.

Janet

Jim, I think what you're talking about is what I've heard called "frost seeding". it shouldn't be too late yet, here's a link to a blog post I had saved with info on seeding in the snow: http://www.prairiemoon.com/blog/how-to/planting-window-is-still-wide/2009/12/ .

hi tcs1366 yes i ment thro the seed on the ground. some of it is old. let the good lord say if they are good or not. do you think the snow melt will wash the seed away? as for the milk weed it came up wild but last fall i picked the pods &burnd the weeds . so i will ws the seed from the pod. i will put them in jugs. would you like some (cockscomb) seed. my e-mail is--jlmcv45@yahoo.com thanks every one. jim

hi grrrlgeek i think monday be fore the next snow i will geter done. thank you.-- want some (cockescomb) seed? jim.

The snow melt shouldn't wash the seeds away, according to Prairie Moon (the link above is to their blog). http://www.prairiemoon.com/

The milkweed might still come up after a burning, let me check the Fire Effects database...
...it looks like, depending on species and the "hotness" of the fire, you could very well have more Asclepias come up in the burned area. Watch for babies! Here's the link to the database if you're interested: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ .

oops, we cross posted. yes, please, I'll dmail you about the seeds.

My WS jugs are completely covered with snow. I was going to take a photo, but nope...they're just a drift.

Celene, how much snow did you get in Columbus? We got about 7" in Cincinnati. That pales in comparison to places measuring it in feet, but 7" all at once is pretty much for us. Fortunately, it was a weekend so not so bad. It doesn't take much snow to bring the city to a screeching halt.

Karen

At least 12" here, but there is a lot of drifting. To give you an idea, my porch has three steps, and the snow drifted up the steps to the door and I had to shove on the door good and hard to let the dogs out, there was probably 4" of snow drifted up on the porch.

Mary

I can't begin to tell you how much I've learned here from others sharing their knowledge.

It is a wonderful place.

Do you have a picture from last year that you could post. we all love pics...

Janet

Speaking of images... i was bored last night and was going thru old images.... this is my view during the summer from my back door. This would have been summer of 2008, as some of those invasive trees have been trimmed back.


99% of all of those plants were WS'ed

tcs, that's so lovely. I like flower beds that are like that...they look like the plants enjoy one another's company and intermingle naturally, like a happy, informal cocktail party.

I don't have a full shot photo but here are two of the colors together.

Mary

Very pretty Mary!!

I think Dusty is gonna be the star of a lot of gardens this spring...

This is a photo of the three plants together when I first planted them. No photo of later on, when they were full. You can at least see the color and texture of the mix.

Mary

Oh, yeah, leeky! My Margarita Blackie just bit the dust, getting nipped in our last freeze. I'm hoping there's some life down below the soil and that she'll come back. If not, count on seeing that combination in my spring pics! Dusty Miller, and SPV Margarita!

Maybe they made some potatoes and will come back from them. Mine got huge last year but didn't make any potatoes for me :( And dummy me didn't get cuttings in time.

Here's one of the purple coneflowers I WSed last year. They bloomed last fall!

Grrrlgeek,
I DO have a huge potato sitting in the pot...it looks perfectly fine. I might just cover it over with more potting mix and see what it does. Thanks!

Mary

Thanks for sharing your pictures, great combo you have there.

Janet

maryleek, I love you color combination in the above photo.

Mary, I was told they don't normally bloom the first year, but since I WSed them, I think that's why they bloomed.

Mary -- as Stephanie pointed out, most Echinacea do not bloom the first year.

White Swan will bloom first year...

out of the tons of WS'ed seedlings I got in 2007, i had ONE [total] bloom, and it was a sad looking bloom, but ... next year i had hundreds.

She possibly got lucky due to her zone, having a longer growing season.

This is continually one of my favorite forums on DG--seems like no matter what time of year there aren't any lulls that you get in some of the other forums:lol: Wintersowers are planning and chatting about seeds to purchase or trade, containers to sow in, how to's and tips, showing off the babies, showing off the grown up babies in their new homes and sometimes...still in their WS containers due to their WS bounty of extra seedlings and no place for them to go and the forgotten containers thought to be duds that just were extremely slow to germinate making sudden appearances when they were least expected. Never a dull moment in the WS forums....and I just love it=)

its to early to ws. have you heard of eating like a bird? 40 lbs this snow storm. love watching them. they look happy. jim

Stephanie,

What is the purple looking flower below the coneflower? Is that a shrimp plant?

Yep, it's a red shrimp plant that probably got killed by the latest round of SNOW we're having today. Where's global warming when you need it??

Stephanie TX,
Think mother nature is doing here own thing haven't seen snow here in year's but we on alert for next 2 days. We just have to keep going.
Had to bring my yellow shrimp plant in cause lost my red last year they do not survive here outside .
Carolyn

Hahaha, at least in Ohio I *know* my shrimp plant has to come in. I think mine's "Fruit Cocktail" or something like that, it's pink.

Here are my jugs after a full day of non-stop snow.

pics not showing up again

I'm sorry One. You might want to try again in a little bit.

I know i saw a thread where Dave said he was working on something... check the Daves forum.

they are transferring servers .. it's back now... not sure if you photo looks cozy or cold

Wow, I got some jugs planted last week, just in time for more snow. This is only my second year, and it's still hard to believe that anything will grow in those poor, cold containers. Last year I planted a few and had great success and I'm trying to remember that. I'm still going to plant lots of duplicates inside, under lights this year, but if it works well again, I'd like to do less inside. Im even trying veggies this time. I have my fingers crossed.

i did 3 containers tonight.... i had been trying to get them done this week and just never had the time... so 3 of them quickly... 2 milk jugs and a qt container.

the qt and 1 gallon were False Indigo and the other was Dwarf Asters.

I wont have time until early March to sow again. but hopefully I'll have plenty of jugs by then.

hi stephanietx. have you seen the weather report. you wont have to water all month jim ----its late nothing better to do.