What have you wintersowed so far #5

LOL, I am not organized. Last year, I had so many seeds from the PS, that I had to do something. I kept playing with my seeds and sorting them into piles of what I am going to sow next, then shoving them all back into the box and starting all over again. Some seeds that I really wanted to try are still sitting in the tins, waiting for this year! Unfortunately, I got a bit burned out at the end, I sowed over 400 containers (some large, some just Starbuck cups), and then I realized that ALL of those needed to be watched to make sure they survived surprise frosts after they germinated, drying out, and needed to be planted in UNPLANNED and UNPREPARED beds. What was I thinking?!!! I was trying to keep track in my journal, but got overwhelmed and just stopped updating. If they grew, they grew, if they didn't, I wasn't going to stress about them. All in all, though, I felt the WS as a great success and will do it again this year. I am trying to convince some of my friends to give it a try.

>>I kept playing with my seeds and sorting them into piles of what I am going to sow next, then shoving them all back into the box and starting all over again.

LOL -- i do the same thing.
I'll rifle thru my boxes saying how i'd like to grow such-and-such.... then they go back in... so i'm really cleaning house for this PS, and NOT asking for so much in return. I really need to limit what i sow.

yea... good luck. LOL.

I loved your green house thing though... quite ghetto. I just have my boxes, that look ghetto enough. Ahhhh, what fun we have.

It is fun. I wish I had discovered this years ago.

I can so picture you playing with your seeds, planning your gardens, seeing the blooms in your mind. Such simple pleasures.

This will be year #5 for me. So little space left to plant. I'm really trying to clean up my beds this fall, not finished yet. I still need a couple of days out there to yank stuff and cut others back. I started out digging up, moving, and/or dividing perennials but it's a little too late for that now. I'll just have to settle for cutting them back.

We had a hard freeze a few weeks ago and the few remaining tender annuals out there are pathetic. Totally dessicated, if you touch them they fracture and disintegrate in your hands. Ugh! I'm so far behind, I just can't imagine people so organized that they're already organizing seeds for the upcoming winter. How can you be in next year and I'm still stuck in last year? The story of my life.

Karen

Karen.... luckily for me, i dont work, so i can go out during the day/nice weather and put in an hour here and there.
I'm finally home for the season... been home about 3 weeks. I've really only cut things back... going to do my dividing and potting up plants i plan to give away -- I'll do that in the spring.

I'm basically done harvesting seeds, only have to watch one more plant that is still blooming... other than that... i'm done. and with the seed swap in full swing... Lynn and I are planning for next year by dreaming of seeds. LOL.

Chuckle. I am still in last year, too. I have a big flower bed that I never got around to removing the leaves from a year ago. I only weeded there on a hit and miss basis, getting the easy ones as I was walking by or planting a new guy in the neglected bed.

In my dreams, my beds are luscious and full of blooms, no weeds, and properly spaced when planted. Oh yes, the shrubs and trees are getting mature, and nothing is being crowded. Can you tell that I have a problem foreseeing their growth potential?

It's funny.... I LOVE Karens flower beds... so nicely spaced... all looks so organized. mine are jam packed as some of mine were direct sown... just tossing the seeds. I need to make more room next year and maybe even semi-organize my beds... so in my dreams, my flower beds look like Karens.

I haven't tried direct sowing yet. I planted things that I had no clue as to what they were, just plopped chunks of WS jugs in the nearest flower beds that looked sparse. Well, those little chunks grew and grew, and I had to increase the size of the beds. Then, of course, I had bare soil, so I had to go buy more shrubs and plants to fill in those spots. And, yes, they grew and grew, so I had to put down more cardboard to make the beds even bigger. And so it goes. More bare spots to fill in!

LOL. you - luckily have room for more and bigger beds.

I have to say, a career definitely puts a damper on gardening. Most of my days off it either rains or is awfully cold, while my work days are warm and sunny. It's a curse.

Karen

Ahh, I remember those days.

Hey, y'all. Don't you think it's time to start a new thread for WS-2009? This one's getting kind of long.

Angie... i was thinking about that...even though we are not WSing yet.... you could always change the topic line to something like General WS chatter.... and add a link that we have moved to a new thread... because - even on hi-speed, this one is getting sluggish.

feel free to do 'whatever'.... :-)

Okay. Here's the new thread:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1053905/