The "rules"

Please post only NEW containers and not a running total.
Example: If your 1st post is 30 containers and you later sow another 30 containers your 2nd post should reflect only the additional 30 containers.
You can post your total as long as you indicate the number of new containers.
Example: "Zone 5 : Add 30 more containers for me. My total is now 60. "

Remember to add your zone to each post so we can see totals by zone.

I will update the totals on a regular basis and start a new post as needed.

Thanks!!
-B

Have a few sprouts already!

My first post for this season, but have done these in a few batches.

The count for the 9th was:
zone 4-433
zone 5-3710
zone 6-2894
zone 7-2496
zone 8-1231
zone 9-224

-B

I can't believe I'm up to 240.

13 more for zone 7
(personal total: 38)

but I am NOT going out in that blizzard today to put them outside.

Our trash & recycling collection was cancelled for this week, so I'm out of containers again.

~CA

My running total = 27. Four of which already have green in them. Woo Hoo! I'd better get sowing!

This brings me to the 100 mark.Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa
cAROL

Thank u

The count as of the 10th of Feb was:
zone 4-433
zone 5-3729
zone 6-3030
zone 7-2561
zone 8-1239
zone 9-224

-B

How else was I supposed to spend a snowed-in day?

Container count question:
I'm helping about 50 3rd & 4th graders winter sow 100 containers on 2/25. Can I include these in the count? I am prepping all the containers and helping students put in seeds and soil.

Thanks!
Norabelle

Anyone?

The count for the 11th of Feb was
zone 4-433
zone 5-3815
zone 6-3061
zone 7-2584
zone 8-1239
zone 9-224

-B

Thank you!
:)
Dee

I added my 15 for zone 5 in

grand total for all zones is 11,009!
-B

Rudbeckias, canna lilies, dahlias, coreopsis, butterfly flower, digitalis, lobelia, perennial asters, chives ...

My running total = 29

Laurel

Thanks,
Nancy

Please add 12 for zone 5.

Now time to scrounge for more containers!
Thanks!!
Karen

Thanks!
Dee

Denise

Lois in PA

Thank you, Brandy,
Dee

I sowed one flat that took awhile. It contained 4 oversized 6-cell packs and 8 4-inch pots. Each cell is about the size of the 4-inch pots, not quite as large.

I'm inclined to give a count of 32 but maybe should just count the cell pack as 1 and pots as 1 each; if so, it would be 12. If I sowed directly in the flat with just soil, that I would definitely count as just 1.

Thank you!

ALISKA Things are kinda grey on what a "container" is so I used last year definition(copy and paste,gotta love it!)

What is a " container " ?

I will not try to define a " container ". You use your own judgment. here are some suggestions.

#1... If you use toilet paper rolls, newspaper pots, plant bands, paper cups, peat pots, etc and pack these together under one cover, then perhaps the best way to count these is to count the number of different seeds sown.
Example : 10 different kinds of seeds sown under 1 cover could be counted as 10 containers.

#2... 50 seeds sown in a milk jug or other larger container should count as 1 container.

Just let me know if it should be 32 or 12.
-B

Thanks,
Nancy

So I will compromise and use the "discrete container-within-a-container theorem" which could be argued ad nauseum and ruin the thread. 8 4-inch pots will be 8, and 4 6-cell packs will be 4.

I will continue to count each separate plastic cup individually. The tiniest cups would fry what's left of my brains, if used, would count the container they're in only even though discrete, seems more fair.

So 12 please for z5 on Feb 14.

Please add 32 to zone 6.

Thanks

This newbe is up to 331 total - hey, heard a new word today.."moderation"..don't think it's in the dictionary in my little world in NW Iowa!!!!

5 more for zone 6

(one more perennial to go - then I'm on to the hardy annuals!)

and for the 15th of Feb it was:

zone 4-574
zone 5-4135
zone 6-3141
zone 7-2703
zone 8-1375
zone 9-224

-B

my post, 4 posts above this one - it's zone 6.

Sorry!

(running total is 200 even!!!!)

Now that the blizzards seem to be over.

count for the 16th of Feb was
zone 4-574
zone 5-4143
zone 6-3192
zone 7-2727
zone 8-1384
zone 9-224

I could also go to the library and waste time looking at old "fine gardening" and "garden gate" magazines!
-B

My total is now 36. Yippee!

Denise

(running total is 203)

Thanks much!

Annie

Thank you

(Officially done with perennials and into the hardy annuals! whoo!)

and the count for the 18th of Feb was:

zone 4-574
zone 5-4245
zone 6-3234
zone 7-2766
zone 8-1532
zone 9-254

-B

My total is now 159... whew.

Time for annuals next I guess.

Thanks!!
Karen

PS:

GO ZONE 5

Did 10 today,all columbines,thanks you guys.
cAROL

~Wendy / sassyb.

So I sowed a packet of my violas in those 9-cells along with some other things to fill out the flat. Total so far is 236, and I counted using my discrete container method, counted 4 for the 9 cell packs and so on. It averages out.

Please add 9 jugs for zone 5.

Thank you for the go ahead for including the jugs for the students I am helping! I will post a container count on Thursday night. I am excited to see how it goes for the children.

cheers,
Norabelle

Just a couple odds and ends today - 4 more for zone 5.

That brings my running total to 51. Now just waiting for March to do the tomatoes, and tons of annuals.

Bonnie

Running total 67-have to get my butt in gear, I have a bunch left to sow before I start annuals.

Rhonda

Then I'll try not to clutter the count threads too much with questions but don't see your posts, this is only the second or third one I've seen of yours.

and for the 20th of Feb

zone 4-601
zone 5-4359
zone 6-3494
zone 7-2795
zone 8-1542
zone 9-254

-B

Karendee - thanks for your seeds!

Donna Mae

Total... oh, 42? dunno.

Hi Aliska! How goes your sowing? I usually don't start the tender annuals like petunias and coleus until late March so we still have plenty of time.

Rhonda

OK, I know, it is too long for this thread, but I'm simply having fun. Talk to you next weekend, back to reality, Monday is coming... it's snowing here but, I know, Spring ic comming.

BTW, I so enjoy all those wonderful pictures, please post them, let us survive those last days of winter... give us some inspiration and HOPE..

Still have annuals to do. Yikes!!

Next I need to do annuls.

Karen

total about 76

total containers? 13,085!
-B

adamark, somehow I got you confused with nbacres out in western IA. I do that. Sorry, I know we really connected on a couple of threads, but I have trouble remembering nyms and the corresponding zones for so many. Can you come over to the Iowa thread and share with us, then we all can decide if we want a Midwest thread?

-B

54 for z5 today, cumulative total, 308.

If you wonder why so many, they are all 16-oz plastic cups with clear lids in daisy trays. It takes just under an hour to fill, plant, cover for some, mist, snap on lids, punch each lid with xacto knife 4X, label one daisy tray that holds 18 cups & if different seeds in one tray stick in a popsicle stick w/label on index card strip & taped around, stick down in cup and put how many. It saves time for now but plan to get a paint pen and label each cup or use a plant marker in every single cup.

Then I went outside and beat down the snow with a window box enough times to hold 3 trays level, then I have to make the cups as straight as possible as they get out of whack while carrying.

Today I had to stop to burn more holes (3 each) outside in 100 plastic cups and two extra containers. It was cold, and my fingers got cold but I wanted to get it done, otherwise not so bad out there. I quit doing the slits in the lids with the hot knife tip, gotta get some gunk off it.