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| I was a newbie last year and probably made most of the same mistakes all you newbies are making this year but just in case anybody's wondering if they completely messed up, here are some pictures I took down the necks of my winter sown milk jugs last year. I kept track of what sprouted when and what percent germination I got so I'd have an idea of what did/didn't lend itself to winter sowing. Most everything blew me away with very high germination percentages. So for those of you still wondering if you wasted all your time, effort & resources, here are some sprout photos to keep you encouraged as the days 'til spring get shorter and shorter.
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- Posted by gardenunusual 5a (My Page) on Mon, Feb 14, 11 at 19:32
| Thanks for the reassurance. Those are such cute little sproutlets! I would be curious to know what your list looks like, with sown/germination dates. |
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| Thank you so much. We newbies need all the visual aids you can give! It is so hard to imagine that one day my Ghetto Greenhouse will be so blessed! Do you have any pictures of "planting day(s)"? Dorothy (Meadows) |
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- Posted by littleonefb z5MA (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 0:08
| Here's a link from last year, over on the gallery page on WS forum with over 60 pics of various seedlings. Fran |
Here is a link that might be useful: seedling pics
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- Posted by mechele211 TN 6b (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 11:52
| Great photos. I just want to know if you found homes for all those butterfly bushes! |
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| I too am a newbie to WSing this year and though I don't have any sprouts yet, these pics give me hope. I gave some of them water (my mix is MG potting soil) today and the snow's melted clear off of them now (they did get buried though and my cheap flimsy plastic lids that I put together as a container for my saponaria seeds is bent up somewhat). Thanks gardenweed for the pictures! Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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- Posted by gardenweed_z6a 6 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 11 at 18:19
| Most of the seedlings found homes since I basically gave them away to anyone who drove up and agreed to adopt them. meadows - no photos of planting days because my hands were busy getting the sprouts out of the jugs and either planting them or potting them up to give away/grow on. I tried hard not to panic but with close to 500 milk jugs that looked like the ones above, it was not easy to stay calm. gardenunusual - I just copied the sprout chart from wintersown.org and saved it on my laptop, then tweaked it to add germination rates + first bloom dates. It's specific to the seeds I sowed and doesn't include a broader number of seed types as a result since I deleted the rows describing seed types I wasn't growing. Check out the one on wintersown.org and if you still want to have a look-see at mine, let me know. mechele211 - I know a great many butterfly bush seedlings were potted up and given away. Others were planted here and there. I'm guessing I'll be in for a few surprises this year when they start coming up in places I forgot I planted them!!! Same with foxgloves--who knew such tiny seeds would germinate at like 150% and grow nice healthy plants? One of them even bloomed first year from seed! If you winter sow your seeds and follow the instructions and guidelines provided by so many who've had success before you, there should be lots of green sprouts in many thousands of containers all around the country this year. |
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