The Gardening Thread

[Mountaintop Lupine overlooking Raspberry Strait, Alaska via Wiki]

KT is home from the hospital. Weirddave had volunteered to fill in today. However, he had a family emergency back east and went back to be with his family. So unfortunately you are stuck with me on late notice.

I have a green thumb on occasion and it's not from the acrylic paints I use. Yes, Morons I have grown plants from seed to actual beautiful blooming plant.

The photos below is from our last home where we had numerous beds. Every flower you see in this photo started from a seed packet and was grown via winter sowing and milk jugs. And I know you can do it to.

Winter sowing is fun and very inexpensive to get into. No need for fancy green houses. Don't have a lot of space? Well, you really don't need much to get going.

SEED STARTING 101: A GUIDE TO WINTER SOWING IN MILK JUGS

Winter Sowing is sowing your seeds in milk jugs or other plastic containers, and using them as mini-greenhouses outside in the middle of winter. Winter sowing is an easy, simple, inexpensive way to sow seeds.

I have been doing this now for the last 8 years or so, and it has worked so well for me, that I wanted to share this Winter Sowing tutorial in hopes that it works for you too. Because it is SOOOOO EASY!!!!! Sow those seeds, and then forget about them for a few months! Seriously. That is all.

The Fabulous and I plan on picking out flowers shortly. We still have a foot of snow on the ground and 18" of ice on the lake. What's going on in your gardening world?

posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 12:30 PM

| Access Comments