Start with the FAQs. Then, if you have questions, post them here. We are standing by ready to help.

Where does one find these FAQs?

found it! I looked and looked and as soon as I asked, it popped up and bit me!

ok - so slits on top and bottom, and tape it back together.

Do you think that an opaque whitish bottle is ok? If you hold it up to a lamp, you can see the light even through 2 layers, so I'm thinking only 1 layer against the sun is fine...

Any thoughts?

Hi t-bird,this will help you and welcome to wintersowing..
Tom

Here is a link that might be useful: The Rule of Thumb for Choosing Containers

excellent tom! That answers it!!!

Thanks~

Good Luck t-bird. Those seeds sound like excellent candidates for WSing. Anything that is perennial in your zone will do well with WSing - YOU WILL BE AMAZED!

Welcome to our community and we stand by ready to help and applaud when you get great germination on those seeds.

Nancy

I'm a newbie too T-bird, and I know how you feel. It seems all a bit odd. There's so much time to wait from now until germ time. But from others here, they say its a success, and what a space saver, and I can earn a buck while I'm at it, so I'm in. I've really run out of garden space, since i only rent, but what I do is dig up something I've had for awhile and give it away or well it. I am trying to start a little business but for the most part I just give it away, especially to a certain fellow who donates it to his church.
Just have faith T-bird and bank on the experience of these knowledgable gardeners. Find someone who will adopt you, then you'll be off and running. I believe there is a site for getting adopted. Can someone help me out here? I'll see if I can find a link.
Are you interested in sowing other seeds?
If you ask people will send you seeds, they love to help out us newbies.
Trudi also gives out free seeds at Wintersown.org.
If you go there you take a little fun quiz and at the end of it you get a paper verifying you went through the process, and in so doing you learn about WSing. Trudi is our greatest help, I guess she got this all started. her site is amazing, Check it out.
Micki

Thanks Micki!

My comfrey is out in it's little container....I will see what comes of it!

I may well do more now I've got the hang of it....I've loads of seeds....lettuces, spinach, brassicas, that likely would do well. This may well be a better venue for the parsley than trying to sprout it indoors in the usual way....

Hi Tbird - the WSing technique works very well for many herbs and it is much easier than growing them under lights. I have sown parsley, basil, dill, fennel, rue, savory and oregano in 1 or 2 ltr bottles, or cups and usually in the Spring (not much cold treatment required apparently).

With parsley and basil I get a nice bushy little clumps that we call "hunk-o-seedlings" (HOS) which can be divided and planted. They grow into large plants by mid-summer. Several of these herbs are host plants for the Black Swallowtail butterfly which I have raised for the past 2 years.

Thanks Terrene!

I added a jug with the parsley, and then 1 each of chives and garlic chives - wow it sure felt good to actually feel started out of doors (have some containers inside too...), and while I found preparing the cantainers to be fairly labor inensive, that they are practically "set" until transplant seems phenomenal, as compared to the indoor starts....

Will see how this turns out....I am very hopeful! I'll enter in my meager tally on the zone wars.....not sure if I want to do too many till I feel more secure in my technique - but likely will do about 5-6 more, as I have the containers.....just need to decide which crops to sow....

I have been winter sowing for a while now, and I like to write about my experiences on my blog. Here's a post I recently wrote with links to previous posts about containers I've used, cleaning containers, and general winter sowing tips. Hope you'll find it helpful.

Here is a link that might be useful: Winter Sowing Experiences

UPDATE!

Welp - I was pretty worried with the crazy weather, and if I neglected them if they got too hot then too cold etc. etc.

But success!! lots of parsley and chive sprouts. 2 out of 3 comphreys came up (3 seeds into the jug). garlic chives, just 1 think the seeds were old as they should be similar to reg chives and everything was the same!

With the early spring, never got to do more, just these 4 jugs.

Will definitely do more next year!

Thanks for all your help and encouragement winter sowers! Sow on!