I have sowed 47 bottles so far. Here's hoping for success. I watched a youtube video from Getting Clean on the Prairies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWENZMdym9s). She lives in a zone 3A in Saskatchewan and her weather seems pretty similar to ours here in central/northern Ontario.
Last year was the first year she tried winter sowing and she met with 75% success. I will be thrilled if I meet with that much success, even 50% would make me happy.
The patio table with bottles now covered with snow
The picnic table now taking the overflow
My husband says it looks like a dinner set out for a feast and all the guests disappeared and winter came in. Perhaps some alien from space would find this and wonder what everyone was drinking.
So I have sowed seeds for pansies, snapdragons, hollyhocks, lupins, lavatera, marigolds, shasta daisies, poppies, alyssum, foxgloves, calendula, gernaiums, petunias, columbine, amaranth dread locks, cosmos, larkspur, rudbeckia, forget-me-nots, nigella, nicotiana, canterbury bells, bachelors buttons, bells of Ireland, blackeyed susans, and sunflower cherry rose. And one container with leeks. That is the only vegetable so far, but I will also winter sow a few varieties of lettuce, and tomatoes can be started this way in mid March.
Fingers crossed. At least no one can see our back yard unless they have a pair of magnifying glasses. So I don't look as foolish as I feel about this.
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