Well, the winter solstice has come and gone, the days are now officially getting longer and we can start to wintersow!
Have you started yet? And what have you sown? Today I am going to get some foxglove started
The picture is not mine, I googled it - it's from gstuff.co.nz
Well, I hope you realise what you asked for, haha.
The last 3 days I did winter sow these ones:
Aconitum septentrionale ivorine
Actaea pachypodium
Actaea rubra
Agastache foeniculum licoriche mint
Ajania pacifica
Anaphalis margaritacea New Snow
Androsace lactea
Anemone baldensis
Anemone cilindrica
Anemone hupehensis
Anemone hupehensis September charm
Anemone rivularis
Anemone sylvestris
Anisacanthus quadrifidus wrightii
Anthericum liliago
Anthyllis vulneraria var. coccinea red
Antirrhinum majus black prince
Aquilegia . . . . . . . yellow
Aquilegia flabellata white
Aquilegia Magpie
Aquilegia pink
Aquilegia white
Arisaema consanguineum
Arisaema tortuosum
Arum italicum
Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias tuberosa hello yellow
Aster frikartii Mönch
Astrantia major claret
Astrantia ruby cloud
Baptisia australis
Borago officinalis Alba
Buddleja davidii rose of lila?
Buddleja davidii White profusion
Camassia leichtlinii alba
Campanula alliariifolia white
Campanula latifolia Macrantha
Campanula thyrsoides
Capparis spinoza
Carthamus tinctorius
Caryopteris incana
Catananche caerulea amor white
Cenolopium denudatum
Centaurea macrocephala
Centaurea midget mixed colors
Centranthus ruber Albus
Cichorium intybus
Cimicifuga racemosa
Cimicifuga racemosa Atropurpurea
Clematis integrifolia
Clematis stans
Cleome hassleriana sparkler white
Codonopsis clematidea blue
Commelina communis
Conoclinium coelestinum
Coreopsis tinctoria
Cortusa matthioli (pekinesis)
Crocosmia Lucifer
Cypripedium ..........
Darmera Peltata
Delosperma floribundum stardust
Delphinium elatum blue bird
Dianthus carthusianorum
Dianthus deltoides Arctric fire
Dianthus deltoides albiflorus
Dianthus knappii
Digitalis ferruginea
Draba sakurai
Dracocephalum grandiflorum
Draecena draco
Echinacea paradoxa
Echinacea Sunrise (gepatenteerd)
Edraianthus graminifolius
Erysimum 'bowles mauve' (steenraket)
Erysimum cheiri
Eschscholzia californica 'Buttermilk'
Eucomis bicolor
Eupatorium altissimum Prairie jewel
Filipendula vulgaris
Galtonia candicans
Gaura lindheimeri the bride
Gentiana asclepiadea
Gentiana lutea yellow
Geranium bohemicum Orchid blue
Geranium pratense striatum Splish Splash
Geranium pyranaicum
Gilia capitata
Gillenia trifoliata
Globularia repens
Hasteola suaveolens
Hedysarum boreale
Helianthus annuus 'moulin rouge'
Helianthus annuus Teddy bear
Helianthus italian white
Helleborus argutifolius
Hemerocallis Bonanza
Hemerocallis Jason Mark
Hemerocallis liliaspodelus Sammy Russel
Hesperaloe parviflora
Hesperis lutea
Heuchera cylindrica Greenfinch
Heuchera x brizoides pluie de feu
Hibiscus coccineus
Hibiscus moscheutos Disco Belle
Hibiscus moscheutos Disco Belle (wit/rose)
Hibiscus syriacus
Hieracium intybaceum
Iberis umbellata
Indian rattlebox ???
Ipomopsis rubra
Iris pseudacorus variegata
Iris setosa
Kirengeshoma palmata
Kniphofia lola
Lathyrus matucana
Lathyrus odoratus apricot sprite
Lathyrus sativus
Lathyrus vernus
Lavatera arborea variegata
Leucanthemum x superbum Crazy Daisy
Leuzea rhapontica
Liatris cylindracea
Liatris liqulistylus Meadow blazing star
Ligularia przewalskii
Ligularia vorobievii
Lilium regale
Limnanthes douglasii
Linaria enchantment
Linaria purpurea 'Canon J.Went'
Linum grandiflorum 'rubrum'
Lobelia cardinalis
Lobelia Siphilitica
Lupinus arboreus
Lupinus texensis
Lupinus texensis Alamo Fire
Lychnis arkwrightii vesuvius
Lychnis Chalcedonica (brandende liefde)
Lychnis coronaria alba
Lysimachia atropurpurea
Malva moschata alba
Meconopsis betonicifolia
Millium effusum aureum
Mimulus cardinalis
Mimulus ringens
Molinia arundinacea Fotane
Monarda .....wit
Monarda dydima Petite Wonder
As you can see it is in alphabetical order, so I have to do the N till Z.
Seandor, the seeds of Escholzia cal. Buttermilk and Geranium pratense Splish Splash came from you.
Jonna
Holy Toledo Jonna.... where DID you find the time??
and WHERE are you going to put all those plants??
JonnaSudenius's - No Way! What kind of machine did you use? LOL
How much space do you have?
Terese, I found the time doing nothing in the house but cooking the meals for the last 2 weeks. This year we have no guests at Christmas, so I had a lot of time.
My garden is rather big and has still a lot of open places in it. I do not expect that all the species will germinate and there are plants that need 2 or 3 years to get blooms.
If they all germinate I really do not know what to do, haha
Jerry, it's just the way you organize it. First I made a few thousand holes in the boxes, then I filled them all with earth, then I made my sowing list and arranged the seeds in alphabetical order and now I'm busy to sow them.
I really do not know how big my garden is, but I think I need about 1000 plants to fill it.
Egads, Jonna! What will you when all the plants germinate (and you know they will!) OMG! You must be very, very organized!
I am impressed to think that some of my seeds made it all the way to Europe!
Now I really want to get started!
Jonna: I'm impressed, too, and admit to being intimidated by your list! Wow. Please send photos when they germinate and keep us posted on their progress, especially after you plant them out! Wow, again!
Well, I do not know what to do if they really all germinate. This is my first time wintersowing, so I expect some will not germinate at all. I had to use other material than most people use, because in Europe we do not have such things as 2,5 l plastic bottles. You can buy sunfloweroil in 2 liter cans, but how much oil does one need in a year?
My problem is that I just can't say NO, if someone asks me to trade seeds. I always see new plants in their have lists.
I will send photos later
I'm waiting or the Christmas to be over to really get started but I have already sewn several types of foxgloves and columbines. Last month I sewed ,lemon grass,onions and chives. Most recently episcias,a trop. aristolochia and hardy gloxinia. I'll pick up the pace big time this coming weekend. I've cleared some bench space in the greenhouse,have a good supply of containers and mixed up a big patch of seed starting mix.Seeds and potting mix will fly....LOL
Oops,I still need to get out my seeds and sort thur what to start first. More foxgloves and columbines for sure....and perennial herbs...ooooo the possibilities are endless.
Peggy
So here's my pitiful stash of WS'd plants so far (how it pales in comparison to Jonna's!):
Delphinium `Magic Fountains'
Salvia `Blue Bedder'
Pyrethrum Robinson's Mixed
Delphinium `Summer Skies'
Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender)
Belamcanda (Blackberry lily)
Mixed Gaillardia
Sidalcea `Pink Ladies'
Thermopsis Villosa (Carolina lupin)
Georgia Aster
Gentiana acaulis (Stemless Gentian)
Gentiana makinoi `Marsha'
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium (Aromatic Aster)
Aster `Oceanstar'
Baptisia
Have more yet to plant next weekend. Merry Christmas, Everyone!
At least you've gotten started!! That's not a bad start at all to tell the truth. Me...still wishing I had...Soon, very soon:-)
Bev
I'm Good to Go (in a couple weeks)! So, let's get this show on the road for 2009.
If any potters read this, please go to this thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/934068/ and voice your support for a Pottery Forum.
Angie, that is not pitiful. You have a few very nice plants on your WS list. I will keep an eye on your tradelist next year.
Thanks, Jonna: Did you notice your Gentiania makinoi `Marsha' on the list? I've sowed both yours and the ones Potagere sent me. Did you get your pens yet?
Angie
No Angie, the pens did not arrive yet. Usually it takes a week and in holiday season it might take a bit longer.
Whew! I didn't do much as Jonna but yesterday I began with:
strawberries:
White alpine
Golden Alexander
Fresca
Chinese ground orchid
Nicotiana:
Variegata
Lemon Tree
n.mirabilis
n.sylestris
Digitalis
Flashing Spires
Genetiana;
Closed and fringed
thimbleweed
lychnis Vesuveus
heuchera Brownies
Echinacea Jade
Roselle
Variegated Lavatera
perennial marjoram
I've got a bunch of unusual seed to sew that I haven't found yet. I don't understand how I can loose seeds in my own frig...????
Peggy
Wow, you are all inspiring.
Hemophobic, I see your containers don't have the lids on. I guess I better brush up on this technique cause I think I would have left them on until later. ??
I haven't tried the milk jugs or soda bottles. My little experiment last year was just deli salad containers with clear lids that I poked holes in.
Now I have to dig out my wish lists; I am behind!!
cedar -- yes, that is correct. No lids. [for 2ltr bottles, milk jugs, etc.]
>>with clear lids that I poked holes in.
But -- yes, this works too.
For the larger, flatter containers, like take out dishes.... you do need some sort of "lid"
i used to use those rotisserie chx dishes, with the big domed lids.... i used them a lot, they do work well... BUT they are not deep enough and tend to dry out faster. BUT -- i would just poke holes in the 'dome'.
tcs - thanks for the reply and for the Rot. Chicken hint. That did seem like a natural 'greenhouse' thingy, but I can see the depth problem.
Cherry Tomatoes, Beefsteak Tomatoes, Ugly Tomatoes, Green Peppers, Corn. Some Hollyhocks and A clematis that I cant name. But its planted. Yeah. I decided today while the sun was shining and an unseasonably warm afternoon. I'm just going to push spring and put the hummingbird feeders out and maybe old man winter will think its time to go.
Think it will work?
Robin
And it looks like my sage has ws itself.
My new exercise group started this weeks I'm a bit behind.
On the 27th. I sewed:
Digitalis:
Milk Chocolate
Cafe Cream
Grecian
Green(d.viridflora)
Porterweed:
Blue,red and coral
Columbine:
Leprechaun's Gold
Roman Bronze(about the 4th.try...not rtying any more after these)
Sweet Rainbows
varieagted kalimeris
Yellow Harmony dianthus
Snapdragons:
Black Prince
Jamaciam Mist
Night & Day
Penstemon Choclate Drop
Robin,
I can't believe your already sewing tomatoes! I won't start mine until mid-Feb. Do you grow your under light or in heated greenhouse?
Peggy
Oh Peggy don't scare me. I thought I read I could winter sow tomatoes. Back to the drawing board I guess. I have complete southern exposure against a house window. sheltered. Any hope?
you just dont want your tomatoes to germinate too early, they will get nipped by a cold snap. most do not sow them until march or so...i'd think if you gave them 'less' sunshine, northern exp for sure... somewhere more shaded [at least until March or so] ... they shouldnt germinate
I'm sorry...I should have said I sew mine indoors under light on a heat mat. Didn't mean to scare you. I usually get a better crop of 'mater plants in the compost pile than in the garden very year...LOL
I'm playing in more dirt this am. Gonna give these blasted heart leaf flame pea one more shot. I got some to germinate in the GH last year but got busy and forgot about them...they craoked so I'm doing them on the light bench now so I can keep an eye on them.
Sewed about half my variegated talinum. Some more chilean glory vine...same result last year as the flame pea so trying those inside too.I'm running out of room so anything else will have to wait until I move stuff off or can be WS in the GH.Only 6 weeks before I need the room for tomatoes,peppers,eggplants and herbs.
I have just about enough room left for a 6 pk. each of blue chrysanthemum,dessert willow and incarvillea sinensis.
I learn something new here everyday. I thought for sure those of you in Arizona and other such heated places just had everything growing like all the time. I don't think of you needing to winter sow. Just think of you as having a permanent summer.
Coming out of hibernation to respond.. ;) I started WS last week.. Going slowly this year since I found that I planted some things way too early last year. Not sure if I have any Foxglove seeds to WS this year but I dont think I will be doing any since I got so many nice seedlings from Seandor at the last swap. (You are the best!)
This week I started:
Nepeta subsessilis
Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
I have quite a few that I am going to start this weekend. Gotta go find some seed starting soil though since the HD down the street isnt carrying it this year.
Melissa
Hi everyone, I've been posting on the first time WS threads as I am new to this. Just saw this here thread so thought I would chime in. I began on December 14 with these:
I have 7 milk jugs, one soda bottle, three trays that had spinach in them, and seven quart size yogurt containers sown with seed. I used two cut down cardboard boxes, lined with plastic garbage bags, and one laundry basket, as trays to hold the containers. For temporary labels I just used stick on labels on the containers, wrote on them with pen. Hope the paint pens arrive this week! (note, they did and new labels made!)
I sowed:
Rose Campion (seeds collected by me)
Morning Glory (ditto)
Moth Mullein (ditto)
Genovese basil (ditto)
Jewels of Opar (ditto)
"money plant" (given to me by a cousin)
Lavandula Ångustifolia (Pinetree seeds)
Correnta Spinach (ditto)
Walla Walla onions (ditto)
flat leaf parsley (seeds from WS.org)
blue flax (ditto)
lacy phacelia (ditto)
lupine (ditto)
amaranth "love lies bleeding" (ditto)
California poppy (ditto)
Evening primrose (ditto)
Blackeyed Susan (ditto)
I saved some of the spinach, onion, and lavender seeds to sow in probably March. I also did not sow any of the May Queen butter lettuce, Cherokee green tomato, (WS) or sunflower mix (Pinetree) -- saving those to sow in March.
Or maybe in February, as I am feeling my way here. I have read to wait on sunflowers and tomatoes and I have also read that sowing them now is fine.....
Jonna, your list is truly inspiring but I have to confess, I am truly a lazy gardener and would probably just turn over and go back to sleep, were I faced with that much to accomplish and organize, LOL!
Kylaluaz, I was surprised myself that I had so many seeds, but since I like to organise things, it was not that much work as it looks. The real work starts when they sprout. Have to work out something before they do.
arejay,
I'm in Arkansas not Arizona. I drove thur Ariznoa once at the end of Mayback in '87...hot in the day time ...cold at night..............air was so dry,the whole time I was there I lost my nasal twang....LOL
Arkansas , Now that is really new for me I have never been there and know nothing about it. Will be interesting to see what goes on in your neck of the woods.
Nice to meet you.
Robin
WHOA! especially for anybody in more temperate zones. You're not behind if you haven't started sowing yet, and you may want to wait a bit longer.
Here in MD, we tend to get warm spells in January, followed by very cold weather in February. If I winter sowed now (in containers, direct sowing would be fine because the ground wouldn't be warm), lots of stuff would sprout up and then perish. Any late-sprouters might wait for another round of warmer temps toward spring, so all is not lost if you've already sowed seeds, but if you haven't started -- don't be in a rush.
My "official" start date for winter sowing is Groundhog's Day (Feb. 2), and I'm often still sowing perennials in March. I am saving containers like mad, as I have a lot of seeds to try to start this year!'
:-)
Critter is right, of course. I am just getting ansy . . . I have some seeds in moist coffee filters chilling in the fridge (lilies, roses, clemantis). I will get serious on Jan 18 when (hopefully) some neighbours and friends will join me for coffee and a "how-to" on winter-sowing.
I am trying to beat Jonna's dilemma of what to do with too many seedlings. I hope (cross your fingers for me) that I can convince four or five other wanna-be gardeners to each winter sow maybe five containers - and we all share what sprouts (rather than try to find a home for 20+ peach leaf campanula! etc.
My real dilemma is that my eldest daughter has just informed us that she is pregnant with her first child (and our first grandchild). So of course, that means we must travel across the continent to Victoria, British Columbia - a journey that will occur right in the smack middle of summer and will take about six weeks. Grandchildren must take priority, of course, but there goes all my plans for the gardens this year. Everything I plant on the public terrace will have to be mindless and drought resistant, as I can't count on others to lug hoses to the terrace to water.
So . . . . a limited number of very easy plants. Next year I can go crazy and grow tons and tons of things. ^_^
Congrats on the new grandbaby, Seandor. How exciting! So somethin's already growin' for the summer harvest!
Tonya
Too funny, Tonya.
I want to buy a particular rose. "Happy Child" for the baby - but I can't seem to find a Canadian source.
Anyone out there have any ideas?
Seandor, congratulations to you and your partner on going to be grandparents!
I hope your idea of convincing other gardeners will succeed. I tried it 2 years, but finally no response at all.
I don't understand Seander what you are trying to convince? Are you talking about a swap of young plants? How would we ship them?
I am from Arizona, and my ground is frozen right now. I live in the mountains and will have freezes on & off until the beginning of April. March is such a tease!!! I have been seduced by her too many times!
I have all my containers ready, I've just been nervous to get started.
