Spring vegetables I'm winter sowing this year
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2022
- I outline what frost hardy spring garden vegetables I'm winter sowing this year as well as some that I'm planning to direct sow.
*Please note: you can winter sow any spring or summer plants at any time during the winter sowing season. I do them in groups partly to make sure I don't forget any varieties I want to grow but that has no effect on the timing of when they'll sprout or whether they'll succeed. 
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Hello Esther from Kingsville Ontario Canada. 1st year WS attempt for me, I'm planning a cut flower garden so I started Cherry Brandy Rudbeckia, Bells of Ireland, Calendula and Star Flower Scabiosa. I have learned a lot from your videos and I thank you for all the knowledge you have shared. After watching this veggie video I am considering starting some cabbage jugs tomorrow!
Yay! Do it!
Cabbage sounds like a great idea to start!
I winter sowed cherry Brandy Rudbeckia last year also and had about 12 big plants that bloomed well. Ohio. I don't know if they are perennial.
Good Job Ma Sha Allah Nice Sharing 👌 Friend 😊 👍 Greetings
Thank you!
Yees Esther! "Blessings of Bounty and May Your Gardens and your Life always Bring You Joy, Inspiration and Abundance!" - Hope( & Mark)!
Thank you Hope and Mark! I wish you both the same!
Your smile can't get any bigger! 😁 Love it! This is going to be such fun in your new garden! Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family. 😃
Thank you! I'm so happy the winter sowing season is finally underway in my area.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures yep, I'm right next-door in Northern Virginia. 😁
Oh my gosh,you are going to have such a bounty and selection of lettuce greens.
I have trouble getting peas from the garden into the house because they are such a taste treat while picking!🤗
Haha so true about lettuce abundance. I can never seem to have enough lettuce lol. I'm the same about peas. That small bowl image was about the biggest batch that made it from the garden to the kitchen.
Winter sowing and gardening newby. Your videos have been so helpful.
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that!
Wow Esther !!! You are not messing around 😄 so exciting 😁
Haha. So true. Thanks!
I watched the series of winter sowing and started seven veggies and four herbs about a week ago. We just had about four inches of snow here in Southwest Ohio. I followed the advice of planting the cold hardy veggies. Thank you for the series. Also because the potting soil was from Dollartree for this project, I added perlite and some vermiculite to the soil because each bag had a few rocks as I mixed the water to moisturize the soil.
Best of luck to you. You may need to add well diluted liquid organic fertilizer to the pots after the seedlings have sprouted because I'm not sure how much nutrients are included in the Dollartree mix.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures I have fish fertilizer that I bought from Ace Hardware last year that I have not used yet. Thank you for the great advice. Looking forward to more of your videos.
You can def over sow onions. I usually start a whole pkg in a milk jug. Same with leeks but in a half gallon jug. They are pretty easy to separate when transplanting and are very forgiving. I tend to over sow everything really. So much potting soil for only 4 plants. I am just careful to keep plenty of soil around the roots when transplanting. I also watched a Charles dowding video where he says to plant three seeds together in each hole and I did it last year. You just harvest whichever ones are ready and leave the rest together. I had good success.
Good to know. Thanks.
I grow Kale in containers to keep grown critter out of them. Great video! So glad you have a community garden space
Thank you. Yeah it's not a bad idea. I'm hoping the tall fence on the community garden means less ground hog problems. Fingers crossed.
Always exciting when the growing season starts. Or maybe that should be the sowing season!
Haha. Yes! Indeed.
Throw those radishes in the oven and roast with your other vegetables. Also, throw in those turnips. YUM
TFS! Swiss chard will over winter in a greenhouse or row cover. They just really slow down. Usually won't seed until the second year.
Oh that's good to know about the Swiss chard. Thank you!
If you grow any winter squash plant it through cardboard with bark chippings on top, it means almost no weeding! Good luck with the new space!
Thank you!
The stonehead cabbage did great last year for spring and fall.
That's great.
Hi Esther! Minnesota, zone 4b, here. Thank you for giving such great content! I am winter sowing for the first time and learned so much from you!
As a new gardener, I’ve been piecing information together on when to sow different seeds. What I understand so far is that:
1) the earliest sowing can be done outside 6(ish) weeks before first Fall frost for hardy annuals to come that following spring. Cool Flowers by Lisa Mason Ziegler.
2) the next earliest would be winter sowing in containers with all the extra added benefits.
3) sowing indoors with lights gives us a head start with less expense vs. buying developed plants.
4) planting purchased plants as early as possible with the ability to cover on lingering cold days.
5) plant purchased plants after last possible frost date.
6) sow seeds outdoors according to the package recommendation.
I need to see all the planting options in a timeline format to help my slow brain 😉. Would you be able to verify whether I have this information in correct chronological order? 🌱🌼🍂❄️
That sounds about right. Am I correct in assuming that #4 refers to frost hardy plants? Also I might add any frost hardy perrenial flowers and herbs (outside of those you plan to winter sow) to what to plant outdoors in fall ahead of frost. Not so sure when it comes to annual plantings in fall unless you're referring to things like Garlic.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures Thank you for responding! The frost hardy plants could be in #4. I was thinking of when we want to push the envelope of getting a developed plant into the ground before the last possible frost date and use row coverings to protect them.
The idea of planting outside in the Fall ahead of frost is new to me, with the exception of reading about Cool Flowers. I would like to learn about what eatables are also in that category like the perennials, herbs, and garlic.
Esther, you do such a great job articulating how to do things and sharing your adventures! I struggle in organizing my planting craze because there is much for me to learn, so thank you for teaching us what you know!! 😊
You are most welcome. I tend to divide my cool weather plants into 2-3 groups in my mind. Group 1 is for those that grow fast and tend to do better in the spring while Group 2 cool weather plants tend to be those with longer maturity times and will therefore do better in the fall. Group 3 is for fast growing plants thay can do well in the fall as well as spring. Most people tend to save things like Broccoli for the fall because they go to seed really fast in heat and take longer to mature. I'm still figuring out which buckets each type falls under.
Another great video!!! 💚
Thank you!
Always LOVE your winter sowing videos❣️
Thank you Diane.
i'm renting out a community garden plot for the first time and am a new gardener as well. i would be interested in following you to your community garden and hearing about some of your experiences. great content and thank you for sharing your videos. Gardener from zone 4B
Great to hear from someone else trying the same thing I am. Best of luck this year and thank you for watching!
Awesome thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Hi Esther, love your plant energy. 🙂
Awe thank you!
Excellent video with lot of information
Thank you. I'm glad you found it interesting.
Thx for sharing ur wealth of knowledge! So useful n for beginners like me! So appreciative:) keep up the good work!
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this video. My grandpa used to do this!
Oh wow! Very cool.
It took me all Sunday afternoon to do my biggest batch yet 12 jugs! I'm a newbie but i also have a groundhog, Tom, the tomato eater in my backyard. I debated winter showing peas and beets but decided to direct sow before watching this but was second guessing. One of the reasons i watched this so thank you for helping me decide. Where are you growing? I'm zone 5b Peoria IL. Your winter showing videos have been the most helpful I've seen so far.
I'm happy to hear you found my videos helpful. I'm in zone 7a in Maryland. Also I love that you've also named your groundhog.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures they're so big you kind of have to!
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Thanks for sharing.
You are most welcome!
Esther, thank you so much for sharing your joy in gardening. Well done I enjoyed your video very much. Trying this the first time this year. Have a wonderful day.
Yay! So glad you are trying it!
Hi Esther, I'm in Md as well. I have wanted to try winter sowing and actually have several jugs saved. I'm going to get some out this week while we are in our heat wave. Lol
Great! Best of luck to you!
Even though I'm fortunate to have the resources to grow all my seedlings as well as a winter garden indoors, I became intrigued by winter-sowing last season.
Whenever I try something new in my garden, I like to "test" the new thing compared to my traditional approach. I tried winter-sowing onions, leeks and shallots as a comparison. Both my traditionally-sown and winter-sown seedlings were planted in the same bed. My traditionally sown seedlings all performed much better than the winter sown. Of course, my findings might not be conclusive especially considering it was my first attempt at the method.
I remain intrigued by winter sowing and I'm going to try it again this season. Your video gave me the idea to try spinach and arugula - both cool weather crops that I'm guessing would do particularly well when winter sown.
Thanks for your video. Cheers
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your results. I'll be interested to see how my onions and leeks do. Have you tried growing summer crops and compared the 2 proceses? I grow tomatoes, peppers etc using winter sowing too.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures Since I'm new to this, I'm limiting my tests to crops that I think would be easiest - this year that's arugula and spinach.
Another blogger also suggested I try tomatoes and peppers. My research suggests that peppers might be problematic as they have such a long growing season.
Come to think of it, I might try tomatoes this year.
Yes tomatoes are a great way to test it as they grow relatively fast.
What a refreshing video....U are the bomb 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Esther my microgreens are going gang busters! And yes I am winter sowing! Btw I had good luck last year with the dollar tree kale seeds!
Awesome!
Maxine
Hi Esther.I look forward to seeing you every day ,that smile and your enthusiasm makes me feel like just get up and go...as i already told I did quite a few perennial winter sowing and then we had lots snow...Well guess what now the snow is melting..I am not sure if I am supposed to cover the jugs when it is really cold .I know I should be paying attention but first year trying so please help From Ontario Canada...Do you think if I put the eggplants seeds in my basement by a north west window would they do better than outside..???? Keep that smile 😃 up
Watch your jugs and if you see some have sprouted, they'll need covering on freezing nights. As for the eggplant, if you have a short growing season, you may want to try growing some using winter sowing (putting them outside in jugs) and growing some sees indoors under grow lights/in a bright window. I know eggplants can take a while to get going in the summer
Great content and really enjoyed the editing on this one 👍🏻
Thank you. I'm glad you noticed and liked the editing. I was trying something new and I put a lot of work into this video.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures I'm just learning, not sure I'm going to continue as I now see the planning and editing time involved. I fully appreciate the time that went into creating that one.
I hear you. Every gardening task takes more time too when your filming because you have to set up the camera and think about your body position in relation to what your filming. Sometimes I like to just putz around the garden without a camera and find it so freeing lol. But I also like sharing my knowledge so I guess that's what makes it worthwhile to me. ....my main piece of advice to you is to not feel like you have to do all the tricks etc at once. Improve as you go and at your own pace. My first videos on this channel were shot vertically, for example, before I realized u could turn the camera horizontal. 😂
Thank you so much for mentioning season extension for onions. I’ve already started them indoors. 120-130 day varieties, my growing season is 149 days. 😬😬😬🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼I’m WSing them for the first time this year, because I finally have hoop houses for my bed. I’m 85 miles from Walla Walla and I’m pretty sure I’m the only gardener in WA to never grow these to maturity. 🤣🤣🤣
Oh great. Fingers crossed for you!
I have 3 kinds of onions started indoors. Not a lot, but enough. Should I winter sow a jug of each as well?
Walla Walla is fantastic! I plant them in fall and over winter them. Great video, thank you for sharing !
Oh great to know. I might try that this fall too!
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures I planted onion sets not seeds if that makes a difference.
I'm not familiar enough with onions to know the difference but I do know that planting bulbs using Winter sowing is problematic usually winter sowing should be for only seed based starts
Well I planted the Walla walla onion sets or onion bulbs in the fall of 2020 and harvested most of them in the summer of 2021. I did allow a few to go to seed and saved them so I guess I am going to learn a bit more about onions this year.
Have you ever tried the Egyptian walking onion? I planted some of those last fall also and I can't wait till they sprout and reseed themselves this year.
McCardie Clan, what zone are you? If not zone, what is your winter like?
This is a great video and love your channel. I am in VA and new to winter sowing. After I did all my winter sowing with seed starting mix instead of potting soil I saw this video. You mentioned about not using seed starting mix. Will it work I just did so many and now too late to redo all with potting soil?
Seeds will sprout in seed starting mix but they only have enough nutrients (in the seeds) to get the first set of leaves out. The seedlings will need nutrients after that which the seed starting mix cannot provide. Some people have suggested watering the containers with a double diluted organic liquid fertlizer mix at that stage. Definately watch for signs of under nurishment like turning colors also. Best of luck to you!
Hi Esther. You were my inspiration to start winter sowing last year and I had great success, I really enjoyed it. I have a question for you
This year I have clear gallon jugs as well as opaque. Do these need to be treated differently?
As long as the light can get through you're fine. I treat my clear jugs the same as my semi opaque containers in terms of sunlights and every other step I take. The one thing I will add is that clear ones can sometimes get warmer although only slightly warmer but I haven't found that to be a problem. Also I'm thrilled that my videos helped inspire you to try it last year.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures thanks
Hi Esther! I may have missed it, but are you planting marigolds? They are great to keep pests away from the veggie plants. I planted tall marigolds last year and they also look beautiful and pollinators also love them.
I am planning to grow Marigolds. I haven't gotten around to winter sowing my annual flowers yet but I will be soon -- and will put out a video on it when it do. I agree that they are great companion plants!
Hi Margarita thanks for letting us know about Marigolds. I didn't know that about Marigolds so I will winter sow some. Thank You Mrs Dodson
Hi Esther:) Great video today! I have questions:
1. I saw Sheryl's guide on the number of seeds in a jug but I can't see how many seeds you had in the gallon and half gallon jugs. Kale? Lettuce? (I want come and come again.), it looks like you're broadcasting, correct? cabbage?
2. What about 2 liter soda and 1.5 liter soda bottles? I have a 5 pound animal cracker jug, what about that?
Thanks so much for your help:)
For kale I think I did about 5-6 per jug. I think it was about 5 for small jugs and 8 ish for bigger cabbage jugs. And for the leaf lettuce I broadcast it but tried to keep no more than 1 seed in 1 spot...probably 10-12 ish seeds total. (Also my lettuce seeds are older so i need to plant more because their propagation rate will be lower.) Because I transplant spring veggies relatively early vs having to wait until after the last frost for warm weather veggies, which leads them to get more crowded and more tangled roots/fight for nutrients etc, I don't worry as much about the # of seeds for those.
Are the containers to be placed in the sun, part sun, or shade? I'm going to give it a go tomorrow. You make it look so easy! I hope it is because tending to seedings is not! Wish me luck 🙃
Full sun is preferred but they can do OK in part shade. My backyard where I put most of my jugs gets like 6 hrs sun (so just shy of full sun) and they do fine.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures Thanks for the info! I'm excited to be sowing some seeds tomorrow! My potting mix is inside warming up a bit. 😀
Ha. Yeah I have to thaw my potting mix too.
A year after you made this video, I have the free red merlot as well. I don't like to grow lettuce because they get sand on them when the rain splashes. What to do?
Hmm. Maybe put down some mulch or plastic around them when you plant to reduce splash back?
Hi, I live in Maryland zone 7b, trying to decide when is the best time to winter sow my tomatoes, flowers, and other veggies. Do you have a schedule that you use to know when to winter sow the various seeds for the most success?
Your best bet is to start in February and you can do any variety at any point from then until mid-April, although of course you may want to start with the varieties you plan to transplant first -- such as frost hardy varieties, which you may want to transplant well before April.
I have a few jugs out to try for the first time this year..but I cannot for the life of me grow radishes. I would love to know some tips on them and why mine never grow for me
Well for starters I recommend direct sowing radishes in the ground. I've read that radishes like loose and cool soil with lots of organic material to feed from. Last year, I planted mine in 2 inches of compost that I had layered on top of my garden bed. I also noticed that they need to be picked pretty fast once they mature or they split and get woody. Good luck!
Hi Esther is it too early to winter sow eggplants also I have some baby spinach believe it they are actually perennials ,the seeds fall in the soil and stay under the snow for the winter and start in the spring and last until frost...we moved in the fall of 2019..so I would love to start them again but we live in a townhouse condo with a very small garden ..love to grow them in a a large patio box ..please advise
Spinach can be winter sown and grows pretty easy with direct sowing also. You could probably start your eggplant now as it won't sprout until you get a good number of consistently warm nights (it's usually one of the last crops to sprout for me when winter sowing along with peppers).
Are there smaller-space crops that you could just grow in the jugs the whole time instead of transplanting?
Some people have used winter sowing jugs to grow herbs and lettuce. You'd need some pretty deep soil for that. You can also try something called No Transplant Winter Sowing in which you plant seeds in the location (garden bed, container etc) you intend to grow it permanently and cover it with a plastic dome. There are some videos on that by Sheryl Mann and there's also a Facebook group she runs dedicated to No Transplant Winter Sowing (I'm a moderator there). If you decide to join that group, make sure to mention you heard about it from me/my channel. facebook.com/groups/notransplantwintersowing/?ref=share
How did the 25 cent packets germinate?
They did ok but some of the pepper seedlings ended up having a disease. It had to be the dollar store ones because I planted them all together and they were the only diseased ones. Must have been passed on through the seeds
I live in md. When do you direct sow the root vegetables? Carrots and radishes is what I am interested in.
Last year I direct sowed my radishes and beats on March 13. I haven't grown carrots yet but I imagine the timing is similar. Basically the usual rule of thumb for planting spring frost hardy crops is you can direct sow them as soon as the ground isn't frozen anymore/can be worked.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures thank you
Your beginning winter sow 101 has been so helpful!!! I have been watching them this week!
Excited to get started
I'm so glad to hear that! Best of luck to you this year!
Hello Esther can I winter sow watermelon and cantaloupe
Yes absolutely. They can be winter sown.
Do you plant orach mountain spinach?
I'm not sure. I've never grown it. Sorry.
Where can I buy the Chinese mustard seeds? Thanks.
I got mine from Chauley's seeds online although I don't see them listed there currently.
2 Question
Live in md
Can I still sow some seeds still, next week?
My lettuce are growing in the milk jugs should I now open them
Let them get use to the environment and plant them next week?
Yes you can still definitely Winter Sow some seeds I'm still Winter Sowing many of my summer vegetables including Watermelon squash even some more tomatoes right now. I try to usually wrap it up by mid April. 2) yes, you can open up your lettuce containers as long as the seedlings look like they have at least 2 sets of true leaves (the ones that look like lettuce leaf shape)
You don't want to transplant your seedlings until they have at least 2 sets of true leaves
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures yes definitely has more leaves. Including my spinach.
What medium are you growing the seeds in for winter sowing?
I'm using potting mix. I think this batch was from a bag of happy frog but I use a variety of potting mixes.
@@EsthersGardeningAdventures I didn't know if you used seed starter or reg potting mix. Thanks, I'm gonna try winter sowing this year
Awesome. Yeah you need potting mix because it has the nutrients to feed the seedlings once they get past the initial sprouting stage. Best of luck to you this year
Is it too early to winter sow tomatoes
For zones 8+, now is fine. For zones 1-7, you should be ok although I tend to winter sow them in late Feb and March just to reduce chance of them prematurely sprouting and having to baby them until mid May.