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Wow!!! You have so many new plants! Exciting! They all look great! 💚

Beautiful collection! Everything looks so happy!

I have a heat mat, light and 1020 starter trays. I find i get high propagation rates when i setup this up in the corner of my laundry room. Im going to go big just before last frost next year with a hand full of favorites.

I use milk jugs and i think they turn out the best. I have used dollar store food containers and they got brittle the first year, i won't be using them again. I winter sow in January because it gives me a garden interest while it is cold out and nothing going on in the garden. Thanks for the video.

Very helpful comparison! I've used several of these container types--but never thought to tape 2 together, for example. Great tip!

Thank you for including the months. So excited to sow in winter. ❄️

Very helpful! I’m new at native gardening and will be using containers for a while (only renting for now). Thanks for including the scientific names of the plants!

I had the same experience with hoary vervain. I tried two seasons of direct sowing and nothing both tries. Definitely winter sowing for them is better. Like you, I had better luck direct sowing butterfly weed and I did swamp milkweed, but still prefer winter sowing them too because of better germination, giving me more plants to use. I do continue to do some direct sow of the two milkweeds and supplement with the winter sown ones. I have a very large area to fill. A side note, I had only one plant germinate with the direct sow of common milkweed, which surprised me. Thank you for your update video.

I only sow in milk jugs and sometimes I get nothing out of that. I didn't get butterfly milkweed to germinate at all. I guess I did ok because I did get the hoary vervain to germinate but I only got 1 or 2 plants. I like to winter sowing because it gives me an interest in the winter when nothing else is happening in the garden. Thanks for the video.

When direct sowing I always put some seed on bare surface soil and stir some into the soil, no matter what the directions are. Then I cover it with a one foot small wire cage ($1.25 at dollar store.) Pin the cage down with weed fabric pins so squirrels ,rodents can't get in easily. Leaves may make seeds rot, but the cages let in snow but not leaves. This method works well for me, and the area is marked with the cages so you know where the plants will come up. Leave the cages on , so rabbits don't eat the seedlings when they come up in spring.Remove cages when the plants reach the top of the cage, (about a foot).

For the soda/juice bottles, do the labels need to be removed?

Can't wait to try this, and of course, learn from my mistakes...😅

so lucky to find this video! i’m a newbie at gardening & i’m also an hour away frow toronto. i recently started repurposing our recyclable plastic junks into pots like you too, and i’m definitely gonna be taking note of all your winter experiments ❤ very helpful content

What a cool video!

Looks like you know what you are doing!!

Mother nature. She's one tough lady.

Interesting experiment 🌱👍

Fascinating experiment! Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed seeing the results of this.

Did you bury the seed heads or surface sow them with tamping them down?

I learned and tested Swamp milkweed just snip the end of the seed with nail clippers and leave it in warm water until it sends out its radical(1-5 days) or leave it in water (5-20 days) for germination then pot them right up.

Good job, I believe your covered pots that had great results were covered much better/more than the covered ones that didn't have great results.

Do you mind sharing what kind of mesh that is?

Great experiment! I'm south of you in New York so I think I'd have similar results. I didn't know there was a milkweed for shade!

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where should i place my containers? does it need sunlight shining directly onto the containers? or can it be anywhere outside?

Wiper fluid has toxic chemicals! Why would you put plants in a wiper fluid bottle? Those poor butterfly’s and other helper insects. 😡👎🏼👎🏼

This is great!🌱

Fantastic video!

I love this! Please share more seedling videos, when you can.

Very informative and fun to watch, too. I loved seeing your little seedlings almost as much as I love watching my in person seedlings grow.

Thanks for sharing 👍.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. New subscriber to your channel.

I tried to subscribe , but , RUclips says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! Thank you very much !!!!

Been waiting for someone to make this video!!! I think I’ll try the yogurt containers w just clear tape on top since that’s what we have the most of on hand

This is my first year trying the jugs method. Next year I am using jugs (I think) and also looking into using buckets with custom made domes (to eliminate transplanting).

I'm glad to have found your channel because I also live in Ontario, in Scarborough, specifically. My main purpose in gardening is to plant for pollinators so most of my ornamental plants and herbs are those preferred by our native pollinators. However, it's hard to find some of the native plants that grow in Ontario. If they are available, they are pricey like bloodroot, sweet Joe Pye Weed, blue cohost, etc. Like you, I use different kinds of containers that can be recycled which my daughter finds an "eyesore." But once my plants are transplanted and bloom, bees, butterflies, birds, dragonflies are their regular visitors. Modesty aside, our councilman sent me a certificate of appreciation for what he deemed a 'beautiful garden." For me, my better reward is the buzzing bees, the flitting butterflies and dragon flies and the foraging birds, not to mention the rabbit and the squirrel that nibble the leaves of my echinacea and the flowers of my sunflowers. It's ok they need to survive, too, for as long as they leave some for the pollinators. I am now your subscriber. Thank you for sharing very useful information about winter sowing of native plants in Ontario.

Very helpful. I am new to winter sewing, so I appreciate your informative information.

If you do not have milk jugs in Canada, how is milk packaged there? Thanks for the ideas for winter sowing.

Thank you! This seems so approachable with your explanations!

This was so helpful. I am going to try this, I never thought about pop bottles, great idea.

Great video. Right to the point. Most people are wind bags on here. Thank you

Have you tried Snowberry? Also do I ignore the package instructions regarding stratification when winter sowing native flowers

If you take a walk on garbage day you can find lots of water jugs in your neighbour’s recycling bins. The extra large ones are great for covering plants after you plant in case of frost just cut the bottom off.

Thank you so much for making this video, you saved me a ton of time in trying all these different methods.

So when are you sowing the seeds and putting them outside ?

Do ya'll have Chobani yogurt in Toronto? Thatbrand has excellent, thick clear lids. I often use them for " water saucers" to collect drainage under pots. Or to keep them stabilizeed, put inside the clear bins. The US milk jugs are thun walled & become brittle in TX sun here. I like using the rhicjer walled gallon White distilled vinegar bottles which I use as a fabric softener / stain cleaner for laundry. Also using 50/ 50 vinegar water spray to get rid of fungus gnats for inside sowing/ rooting cuttings that my nursery center suggested on fruit tree cuttings. Did not want to use chemicals on edible plants so Im trying this spray & baits / added sugar & dish soap.🤞

I also had the idea to use yogurt containers this year, luckily the brand i use already has clear lids ! I also like how easy it was to just snap the lid back on, instead of cutting bottles and taping which can be time consuming

Nice video! Once the native plants germinate and grow true leaves, what do you feed them, and what soil do you use when you up-pot them?

It's good to re-purpose these plastic containers 👍🏻 I do that as well. Greetings from Berlin 💕