Sprouts and Seedlings 2008! Any pics to share?!

Here I was thinking that the WS plants were so much better than the ones I grew inside that I wouldn't mess with starting any indoors anymore.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that they did better started indoors! Other plants that I started both ways had the opposite results--the ones indoors are stringy and frail looking, while the outdoors ones are stockier. Just thought I'd post that comparison, as there was a noticeable difference between them!

Just having fun, and will continue to keep track of which were started where as the seaon progresses!

Yay! I have a few seedling pics to share!

Here's my bin of peat pots--mostly doing pretty well--all kinds of perennials are planted in here and I think I'd better find some space in the garden.

Even though they are tiny, it might be a good week to plant them out--I just noticed the weather calls for 75 degrees and light sprinkles for the next 10 days.

Liatris, campanula, verbena bonarienses among others in here...

These are hardy geranium seedlings from a mixed packet from Thomson & Morgan. I never thought they would germinate but they did!

I think these are Canterbury Bells, if I'm reading the sideways tag correctly!

Nice tabasco, they look so healthy and fresh. I prepared a nice long bed today for mine. Is going to be a lot a work, but boy it will be worth it.

This is my lovely Lupine... and forgot what's next to it.

This is my second year wintersowing and I would like to share my pictures with you. As you can see, I am mostly using milk jugs. I tape them only with a few pieces of duct tape and always leave the top open. When it got warm, I increased the size of the gashes on the "shoulder" of the jug to allow some circulation. Only three days ago did I take the tops off completely. I am sure I could have done it sooner. Some seedlings even grew into the handle of the jug, for instance the grass, festuca glauca.

In the left upper corner, I have some Echinacea purpurea, of which I have already set out three little plants,

Here is picture #1

And #2: I love this one, it looks like a little garden already, maybe like the community gardens in Europe ?

Number 3: the jug on the left has some very measly amaranth seedlings, tiny, tiny, I don't know whether they'll amount to anything, but I'll keep them for a while. On the right, in the jug with the pink label, is my radicchio, which I am going to transplant tomorrow. It did get cool enough for it to develop some color, even though I sowed it very late.

Number 4: A good week ago I decided to pot up some of my Lavateras, and they are doing very well.

Last picture: I do use other containers besides milk jugs, too. These are those mesclun boxes you get at Costco, etc. (two kinds of marigolds) and yogurt cups are good too for some things - in this case sunflowers.

Wow, those things are huge! Very nice. I have zone envy again. My babies are tiny here in Ohio, but I have been planting out.

Karen

Nice job, everyone! I've planted out red scallop poppies and BBs so far; have a few more that have sprouted, but most are still too small to plant out.

PV

I planted out some tiny tiny marigolds that i grew in a tray - and it was a good thing, too. The ones I planted out are fine, but their siblings fried, a horrible way to go! x, Carrie

I finally took some pics today.

here is Calendula Officianalis

and here is a link to my columbine babies. ===> http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4872647

I still have no germination on 23 out of 75-ish containers. But at least i'm over 50%
and some have a lot of babies, where others have 1 or 3 seedlings where there should be a lot more.. but OH well.

Grampapa, I just enlarged your collage photo and saw all of you labels. I'm going to save it in my journal for wintersowing ideas for next year! Very neat!

And thanks for labeling them! I hope you add it to the data base somehow.

And Clementine--you're going to have a wonderful garden this summer with all of those wonderful seedlings!

I just re-read most of this thread and looked at the pictures. I don't know what it is, but I smile at them and make funny sounds - it is just like with pictures of cuddly babies or pets. And when someone comes to visit, one of the first things I do is I show them my "winter garden" (of course they have no clue). What a nice bunch of people we are.

Do you feel the same way?

lol clementine... cute.... lol *awhhhh* *grins* :o) .. same here...

rebecca30

What strikes me about this thread is the incredible variety of plants - tomatoes, hostas, sea hollies, standing cypress(?!...), lupines, on and on...

tcs, I found two jugs today from last year that had sprouts in them. Don't give up on them yet! And Clementine, I don't know which Amaranthus you have but mine got six feet tall last year, and they were tiny once too. WS is full of surprises.

I wish my pics were more organized, but here goes... Geranium pratense 'Splish-splash'

Your so right about surprises claypa. I thought I lost my Nasturtiums, WS , it got right down cold and they looked all burnt, they are back growing again, maybe new ones but the jug looks good. ^_^

The ones that I put old seed in are still a no show, but I will just keep in there tell next winter sow season and see what happens.

Some hybrid Nicotiana in a cat litter jug. I hope to get as much of these as possible, I love these plants. I thought more would self-seed from last year, but I think mulching interfered with that, and they need light to germinate

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Linda, that's where I'm liable to come up with noids, giving up on a jug and throwing the dirt in the garden and a year later there's a plant there. I have poppies this year from doing that.
I should have mentioned that in your noid thread, Clementine.

These are swamp roses, Rosa palustris



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I think this is a real pretty shrub with an ugly name, chokeberry / Aronia arbutifolia. These came up really well

Me too, that's why I can't type... hopefully it's edited to make enough sense now. noid= no id(entification)... Clementine has a mystery plant thread going:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/840369/

Jack pine, Pinus banksiana, a souvenir of Maine. We'll see how it likes PA.

Ok , lol I learned something tonight, I thought it was bugs in the garden or something , lol . need to get some noid spray :/

Lots of noid bugs, too...I'm an integrated noid management type myself.
The recurring problem of unidentified seedlings was part of why I started a picture thread last year - that and to encourage people to post pictures in Plantfiles. It's as easy as posting to a thread, if anyone's wondering about that.

Last one, my favorite. Tiny little native deciduous Azaleas, Rhododendron viscosum. The flowers are white and extremely fragrant. I have rooted cuttings that made it through the winter, too, so it'll be interesting to see which develop faster. Definitely a long shot, though.

great pictures , went over to Clementine link, I think your right on that plant of her's, sure looks like poppies.

The DG plant files are super great, good idea for the noid group of plants, get those babies pinned down to their ID.

thanks again , have a great week coming up

All I have planted out so far are bachelor buttons, but I think I need to get going on more this week. Some of them are getting pretty big for their containers...mostly the annuals. I love the variegated leaves on the Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate. Need to take a pic before I plant them. We still have below freezing temps threatening tonight and tomorrow night. So later in the week I may start planting out more things.

this is the last pic of my annuals tub

grampapa, Looks like your plastic baggies in the tub idea worked pretty well!

Mike -- yanno, last year, after all my Joe Pye died ... i got more seeds sent to me and just tossed them in this large pot ... nothing happened ..i was so bummed ... but just last week i noticed some sprouts. I"m hoping they are JPW and not a weed. Seems that is one seed i have trouble with. And wouldn't ya know.. that is one plant i really want.

Thanks, claypa and Linda. My problem was that it seemed there was nothing left from what grew last year, that's why I was of two minds about what these plants might be.

And my amaranth is only about 1/2', if that, really spindly looking, but of course I will keep it and see what happens.

I am very happy with all my wintersowing this year and have started planting out a few things and will continue as soon things dry out a bit (we had 2" in the last two days).

My amaranthus "Dreadlocks" is terribly spindly and frail looking, too, and that is one plant I just couldn't wait to see! Still trying to nurse it along and hope it takes off when the weather warms up.

Just got a freeze and sleet last night--ugh.

I need to get going on digging up some new areas of the yard, so I have places to put all my WS and indoor started babies! My alyssum is really going to town--wouldn't be surprised to see buds soon. Just waiting for it to get warmer (and drier!)

Angie

Here are my poor stringy amaranthus. Is this what yours look like?

Now MY alyssum wouldn't germinate - hold on, which kind?

I just looked up Joe Pye Weed germination on the internet (because mine didn't germinate either) and got this advice from Jelitto:

http://www.jelitto.com/english/EA206.htm

Did you notice the write-up says Joe Pye Weed won the Award of Garden Merit from the RHS? That really amazes me since I really think of it as a weed and not really garden worthy except maybe in a very casual natural garden....the Europeans like it though...

And germination sounds very complicated from the Jelitto write-up. Other sites said just seed it out into the meadow in fall using fresh seed. Maybe mine wasn't fresh enough--but I collected it last fall from plants around our park's butterfly garden...oh, well...maybe next year!

I started my alyssum in trays inside and set them outside when they sprouted in a few days. The alyssum I direct sowed into the garden doesn't look like it has germinated (yet). I didn't do any WS alyssum. I started several different kinds--purple, rose and two kinds of white.

My wintersowing seeds are germinating OK but the seeds I collected like different liatris, eupatoriums, and others from the butterfly wildflower garden in the park are slow to germinate and spotty in the containers...

These are liatris, mysotosis, verbena bonarienses...among others...

You're talking sweet alyssum, annual alyssum. I'm having trouble with Alyssum saxatile. I think I didn't have enough ventilation holes. :-(

Heres some pic of some of my WS. Its hard to think these guys have been outside all winter, snow on them , freezes and just the other day too.

Some are ready to put out in the garden. I will be starting this weekend, there was so many other seeds I didn't get to WS , but will give them a try next season of winter sowing.

I got the tags in them so its fun to look down and have a name for them instead of a #, The numbering is great and will cont. to use along with code book. As I get more use to flowers I will be able to see and know just what they are without tags, No !!! who am I kidding, I will always use tags lol.

Got Roma tomatoes coming up in the WS too : )

I love WSowing ^_^

Very nice Linda!!

most of mine are still so tiny.

Beautiful pictures, tabasco and Linda. I ws verbena bonariensis last year and they were great. Not only that, but they reseeded themselves a lot, which I don't object too at all, the ones I don't want I just pull out - wish I could give them to someone. Last year's are beginning to bloom already , I discovered today.