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Thank you for the great info! I love my hori hori too.

love that begonia🥰

Shallots will be fine planted like you did. I like to plant y leeks deep to get plenty of nice white blanched stem. Your asparagus looks marvelous.

The sweet Williams are very cold tolerant and will reseed, but the landscape fabric will probably block that.

I also had some scrawny Sweet William and poor germination, but about 10 of them in the tray grew like gangbusters and looked fantastic. All were gown under the same conditions, so go figure.

Nice job there , I planted 2 peach trees November last year that were in pots for a couple of years doing absolutely no good so I planted them in the ground and then they took off and grew wow really long branches , now in Autumn here in Australia I pruned them back like you did and they are doing fine , the weather is getting very cool now heading towards winter officially in June so it will be exciting to see how the shape takes come spring time and summer , I hope you do follow ups on your trees it would be nice to see how yours turned out after the cut.👍

Lamium makes an excellent "spiller" in pots....and free.

Thanks for the reminder, Taylor! I started larkspur, bupleurum, nigella, and orlaya inside and will plant them out tomorrow. They've been hardening off the past 10 days or so, but I think I'll also direct seed them since the germination was spotty on the bupleurum and orlaya, and both larkspur and nigella don't appreciate root disturbance.

Uh oh. Where are your eclipse glasses? Also not good for your cell phone.

Go Pack ! May 24 here 😊

I just rescued one of these from Walmart !

So cute!!!

Wow……! I pruned my corkscrew willow and put them in the water a week ago and root started right away and leaves also emerged. I was wondering should I put them in the pot with soil or directly in the ground. I think I will put them in the ground! I was little worried about the cold weather coming back, but your video encouraged me to try. I live in zone 5/6 Chicago suburb.

I love seeing what other gardeners are sowing; you've got a lot of great varieties going! Those crocus are so cheery :) I have 10 winter-sown milk jugs, but only two (Mystery Rose Cynoglossum and Sutton's Apricot foxgoves) have sprouts. This winter has been so dry and warm that, for the first time ever, I've needed to continually check the milk jugs for watering and have moved them into shade a few times when temps got to about 70. A very weird winter for Minnesota.

Thanks for the update! Your perennials look great! Lots of other good-looking plants! I am in southern Wisconsin and did plant out about 250 anemones and ranunculus starting Monday of this week. I started them at the end of January and the first week of February because the sooner they are planted, the more blooms and they like cool soil. I am using the superhoops and row cover until they get acclimated and whenever it is too cold. Last March, we had 12 inches of heavy, wet snow coming, so I had put on a tarp, and they were fine. I have a patch of 25 anemones planted in 2023 that overwintered beautifully. I had put a little bark mulch down and did cover after our January snow melted with evergreen boughs when it was really cold. The anemones are pretty hardy to 20 degrees, and I have 3 buds already. I have also found a couple 2023 ranunculus that were not dug out and are green and growing. My lisianthus that I started on January 1st wasn't coming well, so on January 12th, I seeded into the 3 by 3 squares (flat of 18 cells from Jung. They grew well, and I separated them into the 72 cell flat and then 2 weeks ago into a 36 cell flat. I ended up with over 300 lisianthus that I am sharing with my sister. I have First Love dianthus, blue wheat, and monarda sprouting in my winter sowing jugs. Mine are wet because we received an inch of rain yesterday. I will be starting Red Flint ageratum, Forever Happy statice, strawflower, gomphrena, salvia, rudbeckia, and annual scabiosa later today. I wanted to mention that I saw a spider plant in an annual basket on a nusery tour today on TH-cam. It's a fun family nursery video that Janey posted today on her TH-cam, DigPlantWaterRepeat. I also enjoy your videos. Happy gardening, and enjoy your weekend!

Looking forward to your SVB secret to success!

Fun to see what other northern gardeners are starting! I'm in the same zone, and have started quite a few of the same varieties as you. I love the Fama pin cushion flowers, but so do the bunnies, so they don't seem to be able to establish themselves as a perennial in my garden. I treat them as annuals every year hoping to see at least a dozen of them bloom. Another great China aster to try is Tower Chamois, which produced 8 good sized stems for cutting per plant and are an absolutely gorgeous focal flower. Looking forward to seeing how your seedlings come along!

I am in zone 4b. I have had a lot of success growing geraniums year round by bringing the plant inside for the winter. It stays lush and green inside the house, with no flowers. However as soon as it is safe to begin placing plants outsde they flower beautifully without loosing a plant or starting from scratch. If that is any help for anyone else in zone 4b.

I enjoyed seeing what seeds you are starting. I also just started my 5 Baker Creek black cosmos seeds. It will be interesting to see when they germinate. I enjoyed seeing your kitty and have mine on my lap now. I hope all your seeds germinate!

Swiss Chard i suggest starting it in a pot and then just move the pot outside.

Very nice, needed a video on pruning today!

Thx! I think our dwarves are going on 3 years. They haven’t grown much. Concerned about too warm of temps and early bud break then freezing. I just trimmed suckers hiding under trunk protectors. Fruit trees struggle here in desert microclimate in Z5a, WI. I’m pretty clueless on fruit trees. Will spray some dormant oil this weekend. Not big on insecticide so we will see. I planted them about 4’ apart because I wanted to train in columnar fashion because they were not available for sale. I’m on the fence on whether to take every other one out now. They only live about 15 years and afraid I will set them back if I move them. I found a couple questionable spots on bark under guards. Lol, not putting too much trust in seeing any fruit. Two miles away we had a Madison peach from Jungs and it fruited in first year-here I tried 3 times and they all sprout from root. I have a maple that has the whirl of limbs in one area. All I could find about pruning them is in summer because the sap is running now. I think I will only do a couple this year and the rest next. Like you say it’s a lot of damage to one area. This is a tree that I trained back from a sucker off the original tree that developed a frost crack and died. It was such a big tree and I didn’t have trunk protector on it. Couldn’t believe it cracked, but the bark was still thin. It’s such a vigorous tree that it out grew another larger tree that we planted at same time of starting sucker. I suppose from all the original root system.

I love baker creek seeds. I bought the ground cherries and did not know they are invasive. I guess we will see how it goes this year. Thanks for that info!

Nice choices!

So excited to see all these lovely plants grow and eventually make it out to the garden!❤❤❤

So greatful for this! ❤ Thank you!!

Go Pack!

I’m so glad that I found your channel! Very helpful. Thank you

A clear tote bin is tempting to use, but you need to check daily as you mention if it’s a sunny day, and get some air circulating in there. Drilling some holes in the lid would be good; probably could leave it partially covered and weigh it down. Great details here.

I live out in the country in southern Wisconsin and this is my sixth year growing ranunculus and anemones. Yes, for us, we should purchase in the fall and hold. I purchased mine from Flower Hat in Montana, Flourish Flower Farm in North Carolina, Carolina Flowers in North Carolina, Fleur Farm in Vermont and Van Engelen. Fleur Farm in Vermont has both ranunculus and anemones available now with immediate shipping and they have great service and a great variety of corms. This year, I started presoaking on January 28th and continued for 8 more days. I used to put them into individual cells as you did but found how it was hard to get the moisture just right for sprouting. It needs to be on the moist side. So now, I put them into an empty flat and monitor them. I take them out as they sprout and put them into a 36 or 50 cell pack depending on their size. Some of the corms actually sprouted in a few days. In fact, most of mine are sprouting, have green leaves and are under grow lights in the basement where it is cooler. For presoaking, I use my laundry sink and empty the water often and turn the water on and off often. I focused more on the aeration this year and the sprouting was faster this year. I also put a label in each organza bag as you do. I am growing 360 ranunculus and 290 anemones this year. Anemones bloom earlier and are more hardy and bloom longer. You may want to try anemones because they are really beautiful! I actually have some anemones that were not dug up last year growing with lots of green foliage now. When temperatures were cold we had snow cover. I recently put some cedar branches over them to protect and we received a little snow which will protect this week. They usually can take a temperature as low as 20, lower than ranunculus. I do plant my ranunculus and anemones out in March. I bring them in and out for a few days mid March. Yes, the ground may be frozen, but I have my site prepared in the fall. So in March, I put down some Espoma Land and Sea compost (purchased at FleetFarm in fall and stored in the garage) and plant them into that. I have some superhoops (from Gardeners Supply) and cover with row covers that protect to 24 degrees. I may cover with more materials as needed. Last spring, we were expecting a wet heavy snow and I put a tarp over. They were fine! The earlier that we can plant, the more blooms that we get. I wish you success!

Finally found someone on TH-cam in my zone!!!!! (Wausau/StPt). 😊

Also a Wisco 4b’r here. Glad I found you and look forward to your videos.

I’m so happy to find a 4b TH-camr!! Do you have a spreadsheet you have for all your plants and planting out?? This is my first year doing vegetables and cut flowers and I find it so hard to put it all in one document!!

Fordhook Swiss Chard for the win. While those rainbow mixes are pretty, in my option the good old fashioned Fordhook is tops on flavor and ease of growth. I start mine April 1st in an over the earth zipper green house. I am zone 5b Chicagoland area. If you keep harvesting it takes you right through until a couple hard frosts knock it out. I garden in raised beds that are topped up with organic compost each fall. I have started mine a week or so earlier if the weather forecast looks good. I do give mom t plants a weekly organic liquid feed....little and often. Chard and the leafy greens and alliums get extra organic nitrogen. Your flower choices sound amazing.

Nice Video! You covered it all. I'm currently in zone 5, but hoping to move to 4 very soon. Excited to see what else your channel has to offer.

Great tip especially for older seeds. Nothing like planting duds and having to start again.

If I could ask a follow-up question, when do you take your tubers out of the cold fridges to wake up? Do you unwrap them when you do this? I think I am in a similar zone to you, so I'm eager for your tips and tricks! :D

If you didn’t want to put holes in the lid of the tote, seems like you could wrap twine, rope, or fishing line around the tote and slide it into a clear bag - the wrapping would keep the “roof” from collapsing from rain water. Be sure not to overheat on days with sunshine! The bag would need some holes as well…

I’ll be using some juice and some water containers with “tough” bottoms - I’m thinking a hot tip of a screwdriver or other would pierce well

Thank you for the information. I'm also in WI but I'm in zone 5b. My first year starting plants from seeds. I will be following you throughout the year. Good luck to you!!

Thank you for showing us your seeds. I was curious if you were going to wintersow some of them or start inside. I have had success both ways with the Rudbeckia, Snapdragons, and Scabiosa Fama. I planted violas, pansies, and Iceland poppies last week inside to grow under lights. Since snapdragons are cool flowers, I am starting mine on February 1st with hopes of putting them outside under cover on April 1. Getting them outside early makes them strong. I hope that we have a warmer April in Wisconsin this year so that we don't have to wait so long for daffodils. Happy gardening!

howdy neighbor, I'm also in WI zone 4b. Trying winter sowing for the first time this year, thanks for the videos!

I thought this method of planting should be barely covered with soil

Thanks for sharing can I grow them in containers.

Thanks for the tour! That Jung is nice and big! You are lucky to have that greenhouse area. When we built our country home, we took many trips to the Randolph Jung seeds for trees and shrubs. They opened a Sun Prairie Jung in an old grocery store which is smaller than yours that is close to our home. Last year, they bought the Stoughton garden center and opened a Jung which I hope to visit. We received 18 inches of snow last week and are now in a deep freeze so we need to think spring! The only seedlings that I have under lights are my lisianthus but I need to start my violas, pansies, iceland poppies and petunias later this week. Happy gardening!

Great video. Very informative. Would you mind sharing the machine used to make your 3D labels?

I might have missed it, but are there drainage holes in the bottom of the big tote?

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Oof! I need to start my seeds!!!

I live in southern Wisconsin and started my lisianthus on January 1st. Johnny's seeds are great, but if you want more variety next year, try GEO seeds. They have some of the newest lisianthus such as Solo and Corelli Sugoi, which I am growing. I grew the two varieties that you started last year and loved them. I am growing 14 varieties of lisianthus this year. Another step that I do is by adding fine vermiculite to the soil when I start the seed, which helps with algae growth. It also helps prevent drying out. Happy gardening!