I was inspired by the Gardening in Canada video, too! I'd tried winter sowing in jugs a couple of years ago, and it was a total failure. I think it was simply too cold that winter. After watching Ashley's video, I went through my older seeds and combined them in containers with some potting soil in shaker containers, then scattered them on prepared beds. I put together a mix with root vegetables, another with things like kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, spinach, shallots, etc., and another that combined sunflowers and corn with peas and bush beans. These all included onion seeds that we collected this year, which I hope will help protect them from the deer. One bed with the root vegetable mix got some lettuce seeds I'd harvested this fall added in. One bed got all my old summer squash seeds, and another has a mix of flower seeds. All the beds got heavily mulched with leaves topped with grass clippings. I hope it works! I look forward to seeing is yours survives the winter, too.
Am just about to try a similar experiment with flowers and veg. Have done potatoes and garlic in the fall for years... time to stretch things a little further ;-)
I started fall planting when I noticed that missed potatoes or self seeded onions came up the next spring. This fall I'm going to try different varieties of corn too.
Regarding myself I would not bother planting seeds in the fall. Because seeds might start germinating in the fall then try to mature in the winter. What happens is your seeds might germinate in the fall then whatever you grow would try maturing in the winter, but might die in the winter. Since you are using a raised bed then the soil might freeze, or if snow falls on your raised bed then it might kill whatever you are growing. Because snow turns into water! I assume you already know what happens when someone overwaters what they are growing. The cold, and snow could end the lives of what you are trying to grow. I doubt the leaves will protect your soil, and what you want to grow from cold, and snow. Well I guess you will find out in the spring of 2025! I think it is possible to grow in the winter, but I did not see anyone planting for the winter, so what this means is that something would already have to be growing, and I am not referring to being at, or near the germinating phase. I never heard of anything needing to be planted in the cold, but I think I have heard of the cold being needed to try to mature certain things that have been growing.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled You raise some very valid points. My hope is that the leaves will keep the seeds insulated from any mild spells that may occur so they won’t germinate before spring. In any case, this is just a fun experiment and if I wasted a few packs of seeds it’s no big deal.
@@shortseasongarden I think leaves just like grass, or weeds can provide nutrition to soil, so you can think of it like plant food if it decomposes. Regarding insulation I believe you are off topic. I think it is possible to insulate raised beds, but I am under the impression there are better alternatives. If your seeds germinate then you might not see it do to all of the leaves you put on top of your soil, so it's not just the seeds you could lose your time as well for planting at the wrong time of year. Anyways when spring of 2025 arrives then hopefully you can see for yourself what happened to what you are trying to grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled Here in northern NB Canada where I live, it is very common to use a thick layer of leaves, straw, or even evergreen boughs to protect both in-ground garden beds and raised beds during the winter. This is not to keep things from freezing but to keep things from thawing if we do happen to get some temperatures above freezing. Between the extreme cold and the snow cover, I'm confident these seeds won't germinate this winter. Perhaps they won't in the spring either. I guess we shall see 😃
@@shortseasongarden I will be planting my seeds in spring of 2025. I have experience with germinating seeds. If the soil is cold then this is bad for germinating seeds, and I think to some degree for growing. When I germinate my seeds then my soil is kept warm. For me seed germination happens within 1 month. I did not see any of my seeds germinate past 1 month. Maybe about 1 week or 2 weeks.
I was inspired by the Gardening in Canada video, too! I'd tried winter sowing in jugs a couple of years ago, and it was a total failure. I think it was simply too cold that winter.
After watching Ashley's video, I went through my older seeds and combined them in containers with some potting soil in shaker containers, then scattered them on prepared beds. I put together a mix with root vegetables, another with things like kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, spinach, shallots, etc., and another that combined sunflowers and corn with peas and bush beans. These all included onion seeds that we collected this year, which I hope will help protect them from the deer. One bed with the root vegetable mix got some lettuce seeds I'd harvested this fall added in. One bed got all my old summer squash seeds, and another has a mix of flower seeds. All the beds got heavily mulched with leaves topped with grass clippings.
I hope it works! I look forward to seeing is yours survives the winter, too.
@@AMKB01 Sounds like you could have quite an interesting mix in the spring. I hope it works for you. 😀
Very interesting… looking forward to your spring 😊
@@minou2232 Thank you. I’m looking forward to it also😀
This is great. I can't wait for the follow up video. Cheers from Ottawa.
@@gioknows Thanks. Another reason to look forward to spring 😀
Wow! Very cool experiment! Thank you! Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
@@jaymchari Thanks. I love to try new garden experiments.
@shortseasongarden I poked around on your website a bit. It's really nice!
@ Thank you. Lately the website has been neglected as I spend more time on RUclips.
Thanks for posting
You bet
Am just about to try a similar experiment with flowers and veg. Have done potatoes and garlic in the fall for years... time to stretch things a little further ;-)
@@Cici1791 yes, there’s always room to stretch it seems 😀
I'm doing those with flowers.. I should do peas lettuce a spinach
I started fall planting when I noticed that missed potatoes or self seeded onions came up the next spring. This fall I'm going to try different varieties of corn too.
@@ursamajor1936 I never thought of corn. Hopefully it won’t come up too early since it’s not tolerant of frost.
Looking forward to your follow-up video
@@osmia Me too😆
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Regarding myself I would not bother planting seeds in the fall. Because seeds might start germinating in the fall then try to mature in the winter.
What happens is your seeds might germinate in the fall then whatever you grow would try maturing in the winter, but might die in the winter. Since you are using a raised bed then the soil might freeze, or if snow falls on your raised bed then it might kill whatever you are growing. Because snow turns into water! I assume you already know what happens when someone overwaters what they are growing.
The cold, and snow could end the lives of what you are trying to grow. I doubt the leaves will protect your soil, and what you want to grow from cold, and snow. Well I guess you will find out in the spring of 2025!
I think it is possible to grow in the winter, but I did not see anyone planting for the winter, so what this means is that something would already have to be growing, and I am not referring to being at, or near the germinating phase.
I never heard of anything needing to be planted in the cold, but I think I have heard of the cold being needed to try to mature certain things that have been growing.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled You raise some very valid points. My hope is that the leaves will keep the seeds insulated from any mild spells that may occur so they won’t germinate before spring. In any case, this is just a fun experiment and if I wasted a few packs of seeds it’s no big deal.
@@shortseasongarden I think leaves just like grass, or weeds can provide nutrition to soil, so you can think of it like plant food if it decomposes.
Regarding insulation I believe you are off topic. I think it is possible to insulate raised beds, but I am under the impression there are better alternatives.
If your seeds germinate then you might not see it do to all of the leaves you put on top of your soil, so it's not just the seeds you could lose your time as well for planting at the wrong time of year.
Anyways when spring of 2025 arrives then hopefully you can see for yourself what happened to what you are trying to grow.
@@knowledgeandmultiskilled Here in northern NB Canada where I live, it is very common to use a thick layer of leaves, straw, or even evergreen boughs to protect both in-ground garden beds and raised beds during the winter. This is not to keep things from freezing but to keep things from thawing if we do happen to get some temperatures above freezing. Between the extreme cold and the snow cover, I'm confident these seeds won't germinate this winter. Perhaps they won't in the spring either. I guess we shall see 😃
@@shortseasongarden I will be planting my seeds in spring of 2025.
I have experience with germinating seeds. If the soil is cold then this is bad for germinating seeds, and I think to some degree for growing.
When I germinate my seeds then my soil is kept warm. For me seed germination happens within 1 month. I did not see any of my seeds germinate past 1 month.
Maybe about 1 week or 2 weeks.