Winter sown seeds

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  March 2021

  That was quite an odd time to be sowing those seeds.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• kasjk Posts: 137

  March 2021

  It's using the winter sowing method 😊

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• clarke.brunt Posts: 215

  March 2021

  I think you need to elaborate what exactly you mean by "winter sowing method". They all sound like hardy plants, so it could be "sow outdoors, letting winter have its effect on them, ready for germination in spring" (this is like them naturally falling from the plants onto the ground, and could be done from autumn, rather than January), or it could mean sowing in a heated propagator in January, trying to get an early start (probably doesn't suit hardy plants, and for other plants, the lack of light once they germinate can be a difficulty). If it was the former, then maybe getting time they sprouted - my garden is covered with seedlings germinating narurally outside - most of them weeds, but some will be foxgloves, vesbascum, etc.
  

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• kasjk Posts: 137

  March 2021

  The way I winter sow is to take hardy perennials (or annuals) and put them on top of soil inside a plastic container of some sort with a lid.
  
  Then I leave the container outside in the weather that comes our way, snow, sun, rain etc. until they start to sprout. That way I don't need to sow them indoors and they do their own thing. I did it a couple of years ago and it gave me lots of plants, but for I seem to remember they all sprouted earlier than mid-March.
  
  Just wanted to hear if anyone else has winter sowed this way and have seedlings already... 

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• Nanny Beach Posts: 8,719

  March 2021

  Have done an August or September, sowing of some of these, but not January

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