opaque milk jugs?

Stillplays, Love your name! :o)
So am curious what you filled up your shady garden area with this year?
Thanks for sharing your experience of wintersowing. One of the instructional write ups
had a long flat plastic container (bigger than one of the BIG bins Blomma used), but shorter
to keep the milk cartons in, so I was going to mimic that. But if I come across some inexpensive milk crates, thats a super option too.
Which plants did you do in soda bottles? I guess I better read up on plants with long taproots!

Hi valal :)

The 6x6 raised bed that housed my wintersow jugs last winter is home to my winter veggies this time around.. Romanesco broccoli, Brussels sprouts, chinese cabbage and Swiss chard. It should get (hopefully) juuuust enough sun for those to do well this winter.

I like the sound of the long shallow container to hold the jugs.. Sounds streamlined, and I need to keep it neat and tidy since we share the property with my inlaws :))

It's dark out now or I'd go check (yes I do STILL HAVE some plants in their wintersow jugs! - don't judge! LOL), but I remember sowing all my milkweeds, dogwood tree, beautyberry, columbine, sesbania, mountain laurel tree all in 2 liter bottles due to taproots. Good luck!!

The plants in the winter sow jugs have not gotten too large to continue to do well?

Nope, some never got planted since I was swamped with other stuff this year, but most of it made it into various pots and flowerbeds. I'll be honest, a few died also.. The beautyberry actually came up recently, like within the last 6 weeks. I still have all my unsprouted jugs hiding in the shade, hoping a few may sprout during round 2 :))

SPWD- I too have some jugs tucked under a shrub, in case they wanted a double dormancy. You never know...
Now I can't quite decide what to do with my baby Sourwood trees that sprouted late this spring. I potted them up late summer. Now what? I am thinking of putting the flat (of very deep units about 2" diameter) out in the open for winter, but mounding mulch around it. Or maybe my cold frame? But these are mountain dwelling trees, so maybe they do not want that degree of protection. Decisions, decisions...
Meanwhile, I am collecting vinegar jugs my cleaning lady has saved for me, for this winter.

I've got jugs too!

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I changed my name from mlmlakestevens to Pistil, and it looks like they changed it on all the old threads, so I thought I should let you all know ;)

oh, Pistil, are you trying to confuse us!?

Well, I just always disliked my DG name. When I joined, I didn't know the log-in name I gave would be my "handle", and figured there would be somewhere later in the sign-up process to choose some oustandingly perfect nickname for myself. Later, I asked if I could change it to "PineNut" but was turned down because once back in 2007 there had been a "pine nut" and maybe they would come back. so the other day I spent an hour or so looking in the index of botany and garden books. Most of my first choices were already taken, or seemed too long and hard to shorten. (see my thread in Trees and Shrubs forum). This time they said yes, so now I am Pistil (not pistol, although I like the double meaning!). This seems better, however I didn't know all my old threads would have the name change put on them, so I thought I better alert folks on the forums I hang out in. But if you want to call me mlm or mimi that works too.

Pistil, I like it. It is short and sweet.

I dislike long names, especially when I try to remember the spelling when I am typing.

Mimi is what I used to call my grandmother. You're not a grandmother, are you?

Dangit, no grandkids. I called my grandmothers "Gramma" and "Gramma Lula". Lula was my Grandad's second wife, so I was not related to her by blood. But I did not know that and always considered her my grandmother too. This was my first lesson that we get family members in many ways, and we are not necessarily related by blood to our family members.

That's so true. My grandkids call my husband "Grandpa", even though they know they are not related. Sometimes love is more important than blood.