I am planting wildflower seed native to my area (NW Ohio, SE Michigan, Zone 5-6) using winter sowing for our church's nature park. I started sowing in the middle of December because I am doing lots (so far 138 gallon milk jugs). Because in the wild, most wildflower seeds do not germinate, I probably planted heavier than I would have using other flowers. A paint pen is good to use. I use a garden marker (buy at garden center or through the internet) which does not fade like a Sharpie does. I did put labels inside. Because I am planting so many, I cut up a milk jug into small strips and used those for the inside label in order to save money. I also label on top and lower portion of the jug because I expect to cut off the top for transport to the nature park and for transplanting. This is my first time but I do expect great success. I have enjoyed your series very much!
Oh yay. Sounds like you are being very strategic and smart for saving money and labeling. Great job. I wish you big success and thanks for the feedback!
Thank you so much, I am new to this and it is so helpful to hear what has worked well for you! My six year old said after watching your video, “May I have some milk? We need to drink it up so we can use the jug to plant some flowers in!” Haha. I am imagining many beautiful flowers in our future!
Your real life comments were excellent! ex. don't waste your winter sowing space with fast growers that can be direct sown or those that don't like to be transplanted. Winter sowing for the 1st time, your series was a huge help.
Zinnias are a must in any garden! I don't eat nasturtiums, but they are beautiful, so spicy, LOL! My oldest loooovveeesss Borage!! I transplant borage every year, also they get huuugeee!!! I keep saying I'd be happy having a flower and herb only garden!!!
Congratulations on the 200 subscribers! Exciting! Also getting excited for the upcoming growing season. Gathering my jugs, potting soil, and seeds now so greatly appreciate your tips.
Your videos are so informative, thank you so much. I do wish that you would put in a photo of each flower from your garden the previous year so we could see how they turned out
Congratulations 👏! So glad I found your channel. Great content and nicely presented. Happy New Year! Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. I need to get some of those more unique plants you showed. Will have to see if I can find them. If you had success with them I should be able to grow them also, I am in N. VA not far from you! 😄 All the best.I feel like I've made a new friend. 😊 Thanks again.
Great content, thank you. I am glad someone is doing updated video's on winter sowing. I am a native plant gardener and have not been successful at growing native plants. I am going to try again.
Just started watching your channel and subscribed. I’m in zone 7b (NE GA) and trying winter sowing for the first time. I just purchased 10 packets of seeds. Some need 30 days of cold so will be placing in the refrigerator before sowing in jugs. Others will be sown in jugs about 8-10 weeks prior to the last frost date. The rest will be direct sown into the garden. The weather has been up and down in my area all winter so hope my plan works!
Sounds like a great plan. If you are in an area that gets chilly nights you may not need to use the refrigerator for cold stratification. Winter sowing should do the trick. Best of luck.
Hi Esther, thank you so much for this video. It was exactly what i was looking for. This is my first year to try winter sowing. I just planted a dozen different flower seeds a couple of days ago in zone 7b, elevation 5,000 ft. in AZ. You covered several flowers I planted, but wasn't sure of as they were annuals (zinnia, marigold and nasturtiums) and I read that in winter sowing flowers you should stick to perrenials. so, Now I am more hopeful for success on these annuals. I love nasturtiums and direct sow them every year in partial shade and they do great! They have even reseaded occasionally. You should check out Laura at Garden Answer and the massive gomphrena bed she grew. Congratualations on your new channel! A new subscriber.
Thank you so much for sharing! This is my first year winter sowing, and your sharing is very helpful!!! Thank you thank you! Oh, and I'm so excited! My first sprouts just popped up for broccoli and cauliflower! 🙂
I'm here for the Alien flowers 👽 lol I grew Zinnias for the first time this year around mid September and had blooms until November. It was so easy to grow around my hard to grow heat scorching mailbox area. Congrats on your 200 +15 now wow!
Thank you so much for this information. I’m in Baltimore City zone 7b and and I keep adding more containers to my WS! It’s so exciting finding those little sprouts in the jugs Your info has been so helpful to me 😊
Such good information 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you for a boost of confidence!!! I’ve never done flowers in winter sowing. Looking forward to the money I’m going to save!
Esther, Sometimes I think you do these videos just for me! I just watched your video on winter sowing flowers. You started with Zinnias one of my most favorites but I have no luck with them. Everyone tells me how easy they are yet they do not grow for me. Last summer I bought several packets and filled a whole raised bed with them. Watered them, talked to them, loved them......2 seeds sprouted. Did the birds get the seeds? So disappointed. Gave up a whole raised bed with no results. So, I will try winter sowing and also sprouting in damp paper towel and then planting. Nasturtiums have always done really well for me just shoved in the ground after last frost. So grateful to have found your site. Setting my first 3 jugs of winter sowed veagies out in the garden today: cucumber, acorn squash and butternut squash and will do some flowers tomorrow. Thanks again, Annie from Martha's Vineyard
I bet birds or squirrels did get to your seeds last time. So frustrating. Well hopefully you'll have significantly more success by growing them in jugs and transplanting seedlings. I'm winter sowing my squash and cucumber seeds this weekend too. Wohoo!
Yes. I plan to do a couple. Some of those videos will have to wait until February when I start sowing my jugs but I can do some overview ones ahead of that too.
Yes, absolutely. I'll be updating this series and adding more tips when I get to the stage in the process where I can demonstrate them...like "when to transplant" will need to wait until this Spring when I can show what the plants look like.
I have not tried petunias from seed using the WS process. But I've heard they do ok being grown indoors and transplanted, which is an indication to me that they would also do well using winter sowing process.
Thank you, Esther! I love your content and you deserve all the subscribers. Please tell me if you transplant all your flowers hunk-o- seedling method. The spacing on the seed packets say to space them more. Is it detrimental to space them so close?
I've never been brave enough to do the hunk of seedling challenge but I've heard others try it. If I understand the theory right, you are planting the hunk under the assumption that only 1-2 of the plants in that hunk will survive.
I enjoyed your. Video. Please give a date instead of just early spring for example I planted these March 15 or February 1 or April 20 thank you excellent information other than that
How about my favorite sunflowers? When they're small seedlings in the garden, they are tender and critters eat most of them. Would they work with winter sowing? I grow every size, from 18" to 13'. Thanks.
I have personally never tried them but I have heard it is possible. You may want to only do a couple of plants per jug to decrease the risk of having to disturb their roots when you transplant them. That's the main concern with sunflowers is they really hate their roots disturbed. Best of luck. I'm going to try both WS and direct sowing mine.
Check out episode 2 in the series. Late February is probably the best time to start for your zone although the main exception is if you are growing flowers that need winter stratification. probruclips.net/video/4UhPwWat9Ic/видео.html
Borage is great for attracting good guy insects. The plant and blooms are also edible. Would you recommend sowing flowers like a butterfly mix or wildflower mix? They're different sizes and types in one packet. Would they work by WS?
Do you mean flowers that attract pollinators to your gard or do you mean the bugs you want to attract. Its not really part of the winter sowing process but is important to have plants that attract pollinators to have a healthy garden.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures so I didn't have much luck with some veggies last season. I did not realize, that I such include flowers in my garden to attract bees. I understand that some flowers attract more then others.. I googled and some of the ones you named are good pollinators .
I had a weird experience with direct seeded marigolds last summer. They grew and grew and became giants before they bloomed. They bloomed a long time too, but I thought the flowers would never come. I also like the 12" max marigolds, rather than the 3-4 foot tall ones. They shaded out too much. The packet said 24" max, but the packet lied!
Thanks for asking. Have you watched the other videos in this series where I explain the winter sowing process and what it is? Here's the first in the series that might clear some of this up for you. ruclips.net/video/t3HUkiJ3VjA/видео.html
Thank you. I'm in the process of setting a FB page up. It's "live" as of today but I haven't posted anything yet. Hopefully, I will get it going this weekend.
Your video popped up as something I might like, but I will say I am very disappointed. Many of the common flower names are mispronounced. Zinnia (zin-nee-ya), Borage (bor-ige /rhymes with "porridge"), cleome (klee-oh-mee), celosia (see-low-zhuh). You can Google "pronunce -name-" and get an audible example.
😂😂😂😂 You're funny, Karen. Like growing, pronunciation dialects are local. Zinnia (zeen-yuh) sounded perfectly spoken to me. Nasturtium was pronounced perfectly... cleome was as well. Now... Borage - I've always heard as you have - as bor-uj - however my friend from PNW (Oregon) pronounces as bore-ahj (as the video has). Theyr both right. Where are you?
People turn to RUclips seeking education. As a creator there should be an attempt to spread correct information. Having an accent is fine, but accents don't change the number of syllables in a word. I was trying to help by pointing out there are ways to confirm the correct pronunciation before posting. I also never said she pronounced Nasturtium wrong, so yay for reading.
You sound sour. You do know this is an open platform for everyday ppl, new and seasoned in all areas of life. For proper pronunciation and recommended and fail proof methods, one should pay for a masterclass…
Apologies for mispronouncing some flower names.
I am planting wildflower seed native to my area (NW Ohio, SE Michigan, Zone 5-6) using winter sowing for our church's nature park. I started sowing in the middle of December because I am doing lots (so far 138 gallon milk jugs). Because in the wild, most wildflower seeds do not germinate, I probably planted heavier than I would have using other flowers. A paint pen is good to use. I use a garden marker (buy at garden center or through the internet) which does not fade like a Sharpie does. I did put labels inside. Because I am planting so many, I cut up a milk jug into small strips and used those for the inside label in order to save money. I also label on top and lower portion of the jug because I expect to cut off the top for transport to the nature park and for transplanting. This is my first time but I do expect great success. I have enjoyed your series very much!
Oh yay. Sounds like you are being very strategic and smart for saving money and labeling. Great job. I wish you big success and thanks for the feedback!
How did your project turn out @rexbrowns4777
Thank you so much, I am new to this and it is so helpful to hear what has worked well for you! My six year old said after watching your video, “May I have some milk? We need to drink it up so we can use the jug to plant some flowers in!” Haha. I am imagining many beautiful flowers in our future!
Haha I love it! My husband and I are also now having cereal/milk for breakfast almost every day.
You are so humble, smart and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and real life experience. Your videos are so helpful.
Wow, thank you!
Some great growing ideas, my name is Esther from the uk 🇬🇧 first time to be a Gardener, just like pants from seed.
Thank you! And hello my fellow Esther!
Your real life comments were excellent! ex. don't waste your winter sowing space with fast growers that can be direct sown or those that don't like to be transplanted. Winter sowing for the 1st time, your series was a huge help.
Wonderful I'm glad you found the videos helpful and practical.
I’m winter-sowing for the first time and I must say - your videos are so informative and helpful. New subscriber (Zone 7 - Long Island) 👋🏾🌱💫
Thank you!
Zinnias are a must in any garden! I don't eat nasturtiums, but they are beautiful, so spicy, LOL! My oldest loooovveeesss Borage!! I transplant borage every year, also they get huuugeee!!! I keep saying I'd be happy having a flower and herb only garden!!!
Congratulations on the 200 subscribers! Exciting! Also getting excited for the upcoming growing season. Gathering my jugs, potting soil, and seeds now so greatly appreciate your tips.
Thanks. My channel has grown some since I posted this video but I appreciate the congrats regardless!
Thank you for the video about growing flowers with winter sowing.
You are welcome
Loving your wintersewing videos!❤
Thank you!
Just watched this again this year and saw that you went from 200 subscribers to 3000! Get it girl! Keep going. Your channel is full of good content
Yay! Thank you! I hit 3K today, so I'm super excited.
Your videos are so informative, thank you so much. I do wish that you would put in a photo of each flower from your garden the previous year so we could see how they turned out
Thank you. You make a good point about including more visuals. Maybe I will update this with a new video with more pictures this winter.
Great videos. Sheri from Omaha Nebraska
Congratulations 👏! So glad I found your channel. Great content and nicely presented. Happy New Year! Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. I need to get some of those more unique plants you showed. Will have to see if I can find them. If you had success with them I should be able to grow them also, I am in N. VA not far from you! 😄 All the best.I feel like I've made a new friend. 😊 Thanks again.
Awe yay. That makes me so happy.
Great content, thank you. I am glad someone is doing updated video's on winter sowing. I am a native plant gardener and have not been successful at growing native plants. I am going to try again.
Thank you and best of luck. Yeah I'm curious how much harder it will be to grow natives vs veggies etc.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures For me, I think it was more 'user error'. I have learned a lot from your videos
Awesome!
Just started watching your channel and subscribed. I’m in zone 7b (NE GA) and trying winter sowing for the first time. I just purchased 10 packets of seeds. Some need 30 days of cold so will be placing in the refrigerator before sowing in jugs. Others will be sown in jugs about 8-10 weeks prior to the last frost date. The rest will be direct sown into the garden. The weather has been up and down in my area all winter so hope my plan works!
Sounds like a great plan. If you are in an area that gets chilly nights you may not need to use the refrigerator for cold stratification. Winter sowing should do the trick. Best of luck.
Hi Esther, thank you so much for this video. It was exactly what i was looking for. This is my first year to try winter sowing. I just planted a dozen different flower seeds a couple of days ago in zone 7b, elevation 5,000 ft. in AZ. You covered several flowers I planted, but wasn't sure of as they were annuals (zinnia, marigold and nasturtiums) and I read that in winter sowing flowers you should stick to perrenials. so, Now I am more hopeful for success on these annuals. I love nasturtiums and direct sow them every year in partial shade and they do great! They have even reseaded occasionally. You should check out Laura at Garden Answer and the massive gomphrena bed she grew. Congratualations on your new channel! A new subscriber.
Thank you! And best of luck to you this year!
Love Cockscombs! I enjoyed this video.
Cleome can be sowed directly.
Thank you. Yes, and cleome also reseeds easily.
I’ll be trying the winter sowing method for the first time this year (zone 6a), thanks for all the info!
Awesome. Best of luck!
Same to you, can’t wait to see updates as things grow!
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures one year later and I’m re-watching your winter sowing series! I had such great success last year, you helped me so much!
Awe yay! I'm so glad you had a great season and find my videos worth re-watching too!
So glad I found your channel! Love your cheery presentation. I’m definitely going to winter sow tomorrow, first time in my life.
Wohoo. I'm so excited for you! Best of luck!
Fantastic video and tips. Glad I found your channel. Happy planting 🌿🌱💐
Excellent. Thank you!
Love it! That’s so fun 🌱✝️
Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing! This is my first year winter sowing, and your sharing is very helpful!!! Thank you thank you! Oh, and I'm so excited! My first sprouts just popped up for broccoli and cauliflower! 🙂
How exciting. I'm glad you found the video helpful!
Yayyy you uploaded! I was waiting..not done watching..will comment again
I'm here for the Alien flowers 👽 lol I grew Zinnias for the first time this year around mid September and had blooms until November. It was so easy to grow around my hard to grow heat scorching mailbox area. Congrats on your 200 +15 now wow!
Thank you. Lol they really are 👽 like. Yeah Zinnias are such a pretty and hardy flower. I think they're a permanent staple.
Thank you so much for this information. I’m in Baltimore City zone 7b and and I keep adding more containers to my WS! It’s so exciting finding those little sprouts in the jugs Your info has been so helpful to me 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Such good information 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thank you for a boost of confidence!!! I’ve never done flowers in winter sowing. Looking forward to the money I’m going to save!
Awesome. You are most welcome!
We've grown zinnias last summer, and I was surprised how good they grew.
Nice. They really are such pretty flowers.
This great information Esther thank you very much, awesome.
Thank you!
Thank you im learning a lot with you .👏😘
Esther, Sometimes I think you do these videos just for me! I just watched your video on winter sowing flowers. You started with Zinnias one of my most favorites but I have no luck with them. Everyone tells me how easy they are yet they do not grow for me. Last summer I bought several packets and filled a whole raised bed with them. Watered them, talked to them, loved them......2 seeds sprouted. Did the birds get the seeds? So disappointed. Gave up a whole raised bed with no results. So, I will try winter sowing and also sprouting in damp paper towel and then planting.
Nasturtiums have always done really well for me just shoved in the ground after last frost. So grateful to have found your site. Setting my first 3 jugs of winter sowed veagies out in the garden today: cucumber, acorn squash and butternut squash and will do some flowers tomorrow.
Thanks again,
Annie from Martha's Vineyard
I bet birds or squirrels did get to your seeds last time. So frustrating. Well hopefully you'll have significantly more success by growing them in jugs and transplanting seedlings. I'm winter sowing my squash and cucumber seeds this weekend too. Wohoo!
Great resource thanks for all the info. Dara winter sows well.
You are most welcome. Best of luck!
Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Thanks so much Esther! This was really helpful 😊 Will you be doing a video on winter sowing and veggies?
Yes. I plan to do a couple. Some of those videos will have to wait until February when I start sowing my jugs but I can do some overview ones ahead of that too.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures fantastic 😁
Thanks for your very informative winter sowing video!
You are most welcome!
Love your videos. Thank you 👏
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Look at you going from 100 followers to 4.35k!!!! Great job 😁
Haha. Yes! So much has changed in such a short time.
Thank you for your insight 🌺🏵🌷🌻
You are most welcome.
Great video series! Thanks for sharing! 👏🏻
Thank you for watching!
Excellent information just the best ....
Thank you Rose!
Happy new year Ester! I’m in Michigan and really enjoying this series. I plan to start winter sewing late January. Keep these videos coming.
Thank you! Any topics you'd like me to cover in future videos?
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures progress of developing winter sows would be awesome !
Yes, absolutely. I'll be updating this series and adding more tips when I get to the stage in the process where I can demonstrate them...like "when to transplant" will need to wait until this Spring when I can show what the plants look like.
Good info thanks
Thank you!
Great video ma’am!
Thank you!
How did the Cleomes do with pollinators? Great video ❣️
The bees liked them as did the butterflies.
In zone 3a petunias are everywhere. I tried them in my jugs. Just wondering if you have any info on them? Loved your video
I have not tried petunias from seed using the WS process. But I've heard they do ok being grown indoors and transplanted, which is an indication to me that they would also do well using winter sowing process.
Hi Esther I was wondering what month did you start your annual flowers?
I'm in zone 7. Zones 1-7 can winter sow any seeds (any variety or category) from Feb through March maybe into April even.
Thank you, Esther! I love your content and you deserve all the subscribers. Please tell me if you transplant all your flowers hunk-o- seedling method. The spacing on the seed packets say to space them more. Is it detrimental to space them so close?
I've never been brave enough to do the hunk of seedling challenge but I've heard others try it. If I understand the theory right, you are planting the hunk under the assumption that only 1-2 of the plants in that hunk will survive.
I enjoyed your. Video. Please give a date instead of just early spring for example I planted these March 15 or February 1 or April 20 thank you excellent information other than that
Thanks. I planted up my jugs over a period of weeks from early Feb through late March. I did a few jugs each week. Hope that helps.
How about my favorite sunflowers? When they're small seedlings in the garden, they are tender and critters eat most of them. Would they work with winter sowing? I grow every size, from 18" to 13'. Thanks.
I have personally never tried them but I have heard it is possible. You may want to only do a couple of plants per jug to decrease the risk of having to disturb their roots when you transplant them. That's the main concern with sunflowers is they really hate their roots disturbed. Best of luck. I'm going to try both WS and direct sowing mine.
great info! how do you decide what time to sow? I'm thinking early feb (I'm zone 6b) but not sure if that is tooo early for me
Check out episode 2 in the series. Late February is probably the best time to start for your zone although the main exception is if you are growing flowers that need winter stratification. probruclips.net/video/4UhPwWat9Ic/видео.html
Do you Plant you winter sowing annual flowers in March?
You can winter sow annual flowers now. No need to wait on those.
Borage is great for attracting good guy insects. The plant and blooms are also edible. Would you recommend sowing flowers like a butterfly mix or wildflower mix? They're different sizes and types in one packet. Would they work by WS?
Yes I love borage too. Hmm. I'm not sure whether I'd recommend it but if you have plenty of jugs to go around couldn't hurt to try and find out.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures Thanks for answering all my questions! Happy new subscriber!
Awesome. So glad I could help.
Can you do video on great pollinators .. For winter sow
Do you mean flowers that attract pollinators to your gard or do you mean the bugs you want to attract. Its not really part of the winter sowing process but is important to have plants that attract pollinators to have a healthy garden.
Also I'd be happy to do a video once I understand what you are seeking
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures so I didn't have much luck with some veggies last season. I did not realize, that I such include flowers in my garden to attract bees. I understand that some flowers attract more then others.. I googled and some of the ones you named are good pollinators .
Some others I've grown that pollinators love are bee balm and tulsi holy basil.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures ...thanks
I had a weird experience with direct seeded marigolds last summer. They grew and grew and became giants before they bloomed. They bloomed a long time too, but I thought the flowers would never come. I also like the 12" max marigolds, rather than the 3-4 foot tall ones. They shaded out too much. The packet said 24" max, but the packet lied!
Haha. Packets do lie sometimes.
I don't understand. about this winter sowing thing , it looks like they want do well , in the spring and summer ,
Thanks for asking. Have you watched the other videos in this series where I explain the winter sowing process and what it is? Here's the first in the series that might clear some of this up for you. ruclips.net/video/t3HUkiJ3VjA/видео.html
I just found your video’s so informative. Do you have a Facebook?
Thank you. I'm in the process of setting a FB page up. It's "live" as of today but I haven't posted anything yet. Hopefully, I will get it going this weekend.
What about cosmos…
Yes you can grow them via winter sowing also
Please what, zone are you I
I'm in zone 7a in Maryland
Yes I just heard it on one of your other videos
Your video popped up as something I might like, but I will say I am very disappointed.
Many of the common flower names are mispronounced. Zinnia (zin-nee-ya), Borage (bor-ige /rhymes with "porridge"), cleome (klee-oh-mee), celosia (see-low-zhuh).
You can Google "pronunce -name-" and get an audible example.
Thanks. Probably my Maryland accent.
😂😂😂😂 You're funny, Karen. Like growing, pronunciation dialects are local. Zinnia (zeen-yuh) sounded perfectly spoken to me. Nasturtium was pronounced perfectly... cleome was as well. Now... Borage - I've always heard as you have - as bor-uj - however my friend from PNW (Oregon) pronounces as bore-ahj (as the video has). Theyr both right.
Where are you?
People turn to RUclips seeking education. As a creator there should be an attempt to spread correct information. Having an accent is fine, but accents don't change the number of syllables in a word.
I was trying to help by pointing out there are ways to confirm the correct pronunciation before posting.
I also never said she pronounced Nasturtium wrong, so yay for reading.
You sound sour. You do know this is an open platform for everyday ppl, new and seasoned in all areas of life. For proper pronunciation and recommended and fail proof methods, one should pay for a masterclass…