I really like the gracious style you have in presenting information in videos and also when responding to comments and questions. The climate where I live, in Australia 🇦🇺, is hot Mediterranean, with dry summers and wet winters. Temperatures only fall below 32 deg F on fewer than 5 days a year. It never snows. Consequently, the issues we face are high temperatures and low rainfall. Because of these climate characteristics, it is likely that I would be safer using, what you have referred to as, modifications, hacks, variations and adaptations of the classic Winter Sowing method. Since I am recovering from medical operations, addressing compromised nerves in my lower back, I am looking forward to setting up a gardening station and program that I will be capable of maintaining. The ideas and adaptations that you have presented will, I believe, be useful in undertaking this project. Moving smaller, lighter containers around will be much easier and allow me to get more done. So that I will be reminded of the information you provide, I have supported 👍 your video and subscribed to your channel. Thank you very much for the information and your encouraging style of presentation.
I’m watching this for about the 6th time today because I’m mulling over starting a few things this way. I just realized another benefit! For a very small garden (mine) I can have these going while they are waiting for bed space! Yay🤩
Thank you for another very informative video. Our winter weather can change drastically from day to day here in Texas....I'm in south central Texas...and yes there have been winters where we wear shorts and sandals, and all of a sudden we will have to put on boots and coats 😂. Love Luke 😸 ❤🤠❤
This is the best winter sowing video I've ever seen and answered a lot of questions about things I thought I was going to have to experiment with. Thanks for saving me so much time!
I was glad to hear you mention your cheat of "pre-heating" you beds for early planting. I was planning on using a clear plastic sheathing on some of my raised beds to warm them up earlier and be able to plant out my broccoli. This will be an experiment. I'm excited to try the winter method of sowing some of the perennials you mentioned in part 1. I haven't had much success w/ Echinacea & Daisies inside w/ grow lights, so maybe this is the answer. Great, informative videos. I took lots of notes. 😁
@@debsmith5647that’s great! I hope your experiments work out very well! And I have had great winter sowing results with both echinacea and daisies! I hope your 2025 garden is full of all of the green things! Thank you for watching. 🥰💚🌱
It's so frustrating. I have had trouble with Giant Allium too. A grower informed me that Echinacea can take up to 90 days to germinate. I was too impatient and thought the seed was bad. I am excited to try winter sowing them her in S MI.
West Virginia zone 6, I have a homemade greenhouse (popup tent with plastic over it) still honing in the details on it. So this is great info for my situation where I still am working out how to get the popup to stay warm. I am going to start kale, carrots and peppers since those are the seed packets I have.
I am in the same region as you and have, for the first time started winter seeding. I have also started soil blocking for the first time. I have collected 1 gallon water jugs to do some mini greenhouses in. I have primarily been a vegetable gardener/berry farmer to this point but would like to get into some perennial flower gardening this coming year. I have started a honey bee farm and would love to have an abundance of pollen close for them to forage on. Thank you for your videos and insight on these methods.
Great information!! I am SO ready to begin planting! So thank you for giving me the courage to try something new!!! BTW your part 1 video is superb! I have joy just watching you! ❤
I love your video it is extremely informative and will save me tons of extra work this yr!! I have a green house, but I'm thinking it is cold enough in Michigan that i can cold right in there for the winter.
Hello I am 80 miles N/E of Dallas. This spring was my first year to garden vegetables. I love the information you are sharing with Tx gardeners, I REALLY need it!! I have a question.. I have 4 strawberry plants that survived from spring. I’m a little confused do I leave them alone or cover? They are on the eastern side of my house in a large container. Thank you again I will definitely be catching up on previous videos and a huge fan of future ones!!! 💕
@@LindaTarrant-x7e so glad it is helpful for you! Thank you so much for watching and for the support and love! 💚💚🌱🌱 Strawberries are pretty hardy. I typically don’t cover my strawberries if they are established unless we get temps of below 20 for a long period of time. Just don’t want the soil in the containers to freeze solid.
I have been successful using plastic and a sleeping bag for very cold drops in temperature. Also uncovering when temps are higher during the winter. You have to watch temperatures very closely.
Hi lady! I Liked and subscribed! I love your presentation! Very informative and not dictating or lecturing! "I recommend" "I may" etc translates well when instructing. May we ask where you got the sweater from? Happy new year! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for practical videos. I was thinking would it make sense to have a layer of potting mix under the soil blocks to prevent them from drying up so easily? I was also thinking of having pots ”buried” in potting mix in a l box so it would be easier to sow several types of seeds in larger boxes - maybe that could work too?
I’m so glad you are finding them useful. Thank you for watching! Both of your ideas are really interesting ones! The extra potting soil underneath the soil blocks I think could work very well! The only possible issue I see with the cups is that plant roots may want to grow out of the bottom of the cup into the soil below and cause some trouble when trying to remove plants and roots to transplant. But I would love to try both! Thank you so much for sharing!! 💚🌱
@@Joyfulfarmer yes, I was thinking that might be the case with soil blocks too. But with pots if there would be just little soil under the pots and then in between the pots, that might work. I will definitely try this. (I think I will not try this with soil blocks yet as I'm a beginner in soil blocking too and haven't found the perfect soil mix and also they are probably a stretch for winter sowing in my climate (southern Finland).
I do put a few drainage holes in the bottom. Just one or two would probably even be enough. The totes I check on more often that the milk jugs and flats because those smaller containers dry out a bit faster too.
I love this! I'm planning to try "winter sowing" this season but here, in France, 1 gallon milk jugs don't seem to exist so I'm already planning to try some hacks 😂 Your disclaimers remind me of folks hacking SFG (like me) 😅 I love the grid garden concept but can't do it exactly. I love the winter sowing concept but also can't do it exactly. Ill be trying self watering pots in a coldframe type thing out on the south side. Looking forward to seeing what happens 😁
Love it! I hope your experiments turn out amazing! Wishing you lots of green in 2025. You will have to let me know how it goes! Merci…for watching all the way from France! ☺️💚💚💚🌱🌱🌱
Thank you for sharing all the tips. I'm curious what your thoughts are on using 3/4" soil blocks placed on top of 2-3" of soil in 5x5" containers set inside a large tote? I'd prefer spending time upfront spacing my seeds out and keeping track vs the scatter method? I do have the 2" soil blocker as well. You got my wheels turning. I love your sweater btw! 😊
That is a brilliant way to be able to space and count out seeds precisely! The roots will likely still be a little tricky to separate because of the solid soil block that they’ll share, but I love this idea! Thank you for watching and for the kind words. ☺️💚🌱
@Joyfulfarmer I really like aome of the modifications to the process, A+ Just wondering, do you have an Amazon affiliated page for some of your tools? Like the large 4 cell soil block maker or anything you use on the regular? Thanks!
@@mrdkoser thanks so much! 💚🌱 yes, here is the 2” soil blocker that I like and a list of some other favorites of mine. amzn.to/4iRv41A www.amazon.com/shop/joyfulfarmer/list/3O4FSEQZBOFOE?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_aipsflist_3BEG4GH2C72207P7XW71&language=en_US
Love these winter sowing videos. So nice to be able to break rules when they benefit your plants!! Where did you get your rectangular shoebox style boxes. That is actually my biggest dilemma as we don't drink that much milk or liquids that come in big containers. My favorite are 2 large spring water containers people turn upside down for water coolers. I guess I could check with Starbucks but would prefer the rectangle ones so they stack easier for storage. I read you have problems with them breaking down in the sun, I am in N MS and they will not be used once hot weather hits here. I have had success with direct sowing Breadseed poppies in late fall early winter too. Should try Delphiniums and Lupines which you don't normally see here.
@@josweatt898 i love the rectangular containers of greens from the grocery store - they work great! I had adopted a bunch of heavier duty clear containers that were going to be thrown away at school… but have also bought a set from Amazon. These have worked well and I got a used set that was just over a dollar per box. amzn.to/3Pqxirh and I am testing out some clear UV protectant spray this year to see if that helps with the plastic breaking down…hope that helps! Thank you for watching. 💚🌱
I did winter sowing a few years ago and it was amazing! I'm not sure why I haven't thought about doing it since?? I was just experimenting that year and it went very well! Thank you for this reminder! I'm in North Texas also, is right now a good time to start with perennials and cold tolerant things? Thank you for the abundance of info! ♥️
Howdy neighbor! ☺️ Yes!! I just prepped a bunch of containers for perennials, especially herbs, and native plants, as well as cool hardy annuals! Thank you so much for watching.💚💚💚🌱🌱🌱
These are some smaller ones I am using from Amazon: amzn.to/40p5FoF The larger ones I have repurposed, but here are some similar ones you could put smaller pots into: amzn.to/4jbGpJV I also am trying a UV protectant clear spray paint this year to see if they will last longer as well. Hope that helps, thank you for watching. 💚🌱
Kendyll, thanks for making this video. I do like the idea of using soil blocks and placing them inside a larger container. I do not have a soil blocker tool and have never tried to make soil blocks before. I'd like to perhaps try the hack of filling clear plastic drink cups with soil mix and seeds, then placing them inside a large plastic bin with a lid. Based on your video, would this technique offer similar benefits of soil blocking? Thank you.
@@grizoswald210 that would give each plant more space to grow, and buy you time to be able to let the plants get bigger before planting out. You wouldn’t get the benefit of the airflow to roots, but as long as your potting mix is nice and light, it should work just fine. Just be sure you have holes in the bottom of the cups and holes in the lid and bottom of the container. You could also grow multiple plants in each cup and thin them out when they have true leaves. I like to do that to grow lots of varieties in one easy-to-move setup. Lots of ways to do it. ☺️💚🌱
@@Joyfulfarmer Thank you. Very good advice. As you said, either the 'drink cup' method or the soil blocks have the advantage of not disturbing the roots so much during transplanting. I may have to try this method. I'm in zone 6 so it's about time to get started with winter sowing.
I feel like it’s a good thing and a bad thing when we have warmer winters. I don’t get quite as depressed lol but I just worry that sometimes the plants could get froze back too many times in February and might not make it, like my blackberries and garlic, etc. We are zone 7 a/B in Oklahoma, so I feel like starting everything indoors is the safest bet to keep my heart from getting broken. The establish plants can handle it, but I’m just forgetful enough and hate the cold so much that I and probably not a good candidate… but, I do think that I will set things out a little earlier and be ready for some frost protection this year?
@@lmullens75 so true, those warm winters can sure trick our plants…and this winter is projected to be warmer…sticking with classic winter sowing might be good for you, also, since you are north of us. It works super well for natives, perennials, and cool hardy plants and could save you some room under the grow lights! I can be just as forgetful, lol…This year I’m going to start my mints, lavender, rosemary, bee balm, hyssop, and chamomile with classic winter sowing and they do fine winter sown outside in their containers even when temps dip down into the teens…I just toss a blanket over them at night if it gets that cold. Or you could test a few seeds in containers outside, too, and it might work out well! You just never know!
Hi Kendyll! I really enjoy your content. I sincerely invite you to test our brand's farming/gardening boots. I think they could greatly assist your activities! Are you interested in collaborating? How can I contact you?
I really like the gracious style you have in presenting information in videos and also when responding to comments and questions.
The climate where I live, in Australia 🇦🇺, is hot Mediterranean, with dry summers and wet winters. Temperatures only fall below 32 deg F on fewer than 5 days a year. It never snows. Consequently, the issues we face are high temperatures and low rainfall. Because of these climate characteristics, it is likely that I would be safer using, what you have referred to as, modifications, hacks, variations and adaptations of the classic Winter Sowing method.
Since I am recovering from medical operations, addressing compromised nerves in my lower back, I am looking forward to setting up a gardening station and program that I will be capable of maintaining. The ideas and adaptations that you have presented will, I believe, be useful in undertaking this project. Moving smaller, lighter containers around will be much easier and allow me to get more done.
So that I will be reminded of the information you provide, I have supported 👍 your video and subscribed to your channel. Thank you very much for the information and your encouraging style of presentation.
Hi Kendall, I totally agree with you on the issues of overcrowding and the pain in seperating baby plants (2:38)! 🙂 Best, Albert, SF, CA
My goodness, TONS of great info here!!! TY! CaliKim
Thank you for watching! So glad it is useful! 💚🌱
Great tip for drainage/venting holes on the containers and 2 seeds per soil block…simple but very effective strategies!
@@dmat7148 💚💚🌱🌱
I’m watching this for about the 6th time today because I’m mulling over starting a few things this way. I just realized another benefit! For a very small garden (mine) I can have these going while they are waiting for bed space! Yay🤩
@@lesliebehrens7252 love that! Absolutely! Happy growing. 💚🌱
Thank you for this well-thought -out, organized information. I've never started plants like this before, but I'm going to try it this winter.
@@Janette-rz4km you are so welcome. I hope it goes well! Happy growing! 💚🌱
Look at that cute sweater! Thanks for the winter gardening tips.
You're so welcome! 😊 thank you for watching. 💚🌱
Thank you for another very informative video. Our winter weather can change drastically from day to day here in Texas....I'm in south central Texas...and yes there have been winters where we wear shorts and sandals, and all of a sudden we will have to put on boots and coats 😂. Love Luke 😸
❤🤠❤
@@delmadehoyos1946 sooo true!!! ☀️☀️☀️⛈️☀️❄️❄️❄️☀️❄️☀️❄️⛈️🔥🔥
This is the best winter sowing video I've ever seen and answered a lot of questions about things I thought I was going to have to experiment with. Thanks for saving me so much time!
@@Cici1791 so glad it is helpful to you! Thank you for watching! 💚🌱
I was glad to hear you mention your cheat of "pre-heating" you beds for early planting. I was planning on using a clear plastic sheathing on some of my raised beds to warm them up earlier and be able to plant out my broccoli. This will be an experiment. I'm excited to try the winter method of sowing some of the perennials you mentioned in part 1. I haven't had much success w/ Echinacea & Daisies inside w/ grow lights, so maybe this is the answer. Great, informative videos. I took lots of notes. 😁
@@debsmith5647that’s great! I hope your experiments work out very well! And I have had great winter sowing results with both echinacea and daisies! I hope your 2025 garden is full of all of the green things! Thank you for watching. 🥰💚🌱
It's so frustrating. I have had trouble with Giant Allium too.
A grower informed me that Echinacea can take up to 90 days to germinate. I was too impatient and thought the seed was bad.
I am excited to try winter sowing them her in S MI.
❤your heart breaks loosing those babies. I feel your pain, do what your heart tells you to do.
I grew up in Bonham. Enjoyed the video
Awesome. Thank you for watching!🙂🌱🌱
West Virginia zone 6, I have a homemade greenhouse (popup tent with plastic over it) still honing in the details on it. So this is great info for my situation where I still am working out how to get the popup to stay warm. I am going to start kale, carrots and peppers since those are the seed packets I have.
I hope it works out well for you, and wish you all the green things in 2025! ☺️
I am in the same region as you and have, for the first time started winter seeding. I have also started soil blocking for the first time. I have collected 1 gallon water jugs to do some mini greenhouses in. I have primarily been a vegetable gardener/berry farmer to this point but would like to get into some perennial flower gardening this coming year. I have started a honey bee farm and would love to have an abundance of pollen close for them to forage on. Thank you for your videos and insight on these methods.
@@scottwatkins571 that sounds awesome! Wishing you a very fruitful 2025! Thank you for sharing and for watching! 💚💚🌱🌱
Great information!! I am SO ready to begin planting! So thank you for giving me the courage to try something new!!! BTW your part 1 video is superb! I have joy just watching you! ❤
Thank you for the kind words and for watching! 💚🌱
New subscriber here. I enjoyed your video and appreciate the planting tips you shared. I grow my Winter plants in my greenhouse and they do well.
Thank you for watching! I hope this spring will be full of green for you! 💚🌱
You always provide so much information. I love your channel!!
@@CindDJo I’m so glad it’s useful! Thank you for the kind words and for watching! ☺️💚🌱
I love your video it is extremely informative and will save me tons of extra work this yr!! I have a green house, but I'm thinking it is cold enough in Michigan that i can cold right in there for the winter.
@@briellewardin5873 I’m so glad it is helpful. Happy growing! 💚🌱
Love your sweater ❤ Watching you from Estonia, thank you for this information.
Thank you for watching!! And happy growing! 💚💚🌱🌱
You are welcome
I love a good experiment! Thanks for sharing your tried and true modifications. Another great video!
@@JenniGotDesigns thanks so much for watching! Let me know how your growing goes this year! 💚🌱
Hello I am 80 miles N/E of Dallas. This spring was my first year to garden vegetables. I love the information you are sharing with Tx gardeners, I REALLY need it!! I have a question.. I have 4 strawberry plants that survived from spring. I’m a little confused do I leave them alone or cover? They are on the eastern side of my house in a large container. Thank you again I will definitely be catching up on previous videos and a huge fan of future ones!!! 💕
@@LindaTarrant-x7e so glad it is helpful for you! Thank you so much for watching and for the support and love! 💚💚🌱🌱
Strawberries are pretty hardy. I typically don’t cover my strawberries if they are established unless we get temps of below 20 for a long period of time. Just don’t want the soil in the containers to freeze solid.
@ ok that’s what I needed to know. Thank you so much!!
I have been successful using plastic and a sleeping bag for very cold drops in temperature. Also uncovering when temps are higher during the winter. You have to watch temperatures very closely.
@@cherylcolyer great use for a sleeping bag! And so true about temperatures. Thank you for sharing! 💚🌱
Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much for sharing so much info with us all. Blwyddyn Newydd Dda from Snowdonia, North Wales.
@@neryshaynes9149 thank you for the kind words and for watching!! Happy New Year! Wishing you all the green things in 2025. 💚🌱
Hi lady! I Liked and subscribed! I love your presentation! Very informative and not dictating or lecturing! "I recommend" "I may" etc translates well when instructing. May we ask where you got the sweater from? Happy new year! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the kind words and for watching! The sweater was a gift from a student. ☺️ Happy New Year to you, too! 💚🌱
Thank you!❤
Oh, I love the way you explained it he explained ito .❤
Really well put together video. Thank you 😊
Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching! 💚🌱
Thank you for practical videos. I was thinking would it make sense to have a layer of potting mix under the soil blocks to prevent them from drying up so easily? I was also thinking of having pots ”buried” in potting mix in a l box so it would be easier to sow several types of seeds in larger boxes - maybe that could work too?
I’m so glad you are finding them useful. Thank you for watching! Both of your ideas are really interesting ones! The extra potting soil underneath the soil blocks I think could work very well! The only possible issue I see with the cups is that plant roots may want to grow out of the bottom of the cup into the soil below and cause some trouble when trying to remove plants and roots to transplant. But I would love to try both! Thank you so much for sharing!! 💚🌱
@@Joyfulfarmer yes, I was thinking that might be the case with soil blocks too. But with pots if there would be just little soil under the pots and then in between the pots, that might work. I will definitely try this. (I think I will not try this with soil blocks yet as I'm a beginner in soil blocking too and haven't found the perfect soil mix and also they are probably a stretch for winter sowing in my climate (southern Finland).
Thank you. When you use the large plastic totes with cups, do you put drainage holes in the tote?
I do put a few drainage holes in the bottom. Just one or two would probably even be enough. The totes I check on more often that the milk jugs and flats because those smaller containers dry out a bit faster too.
I love this! I'm planning to try "winter sowing" this season but here, in France, 1 gallon milk jugs don't seem to exist so I'm already planning to try some hacks 😂 Your disclaimers remind me of folks hacking SFG (like me) 😅 I love the grid garden concept but can't do it exactly. I love the winter sowing concept but also can't do it exactly. Ill be trying self watering pots in a coldframe type thing out on the south side. Looking forward to seeing what happens 😁
I like the soil blocking idea. I have one... Maybe I'll give that a try too
Love it! I hope your experiments turn out amazing! Wishing you lots of green in 2025. You will have to let me know how it goes! Merci…for watching all the way from France! ☺️💚💚💚🌱🌱🌱
Amazing video! Thank you so much! New subscriber from AZ, zone7b.
@@donnasantamaria8317 thank you for watching! So glad it is helpful! 💚🌱
Thank you for sharing all the tips. I'm curious what your thoughts are on using 3/4" soil blocks placed on top of 2-3" of soil in 5x5" containers set inside a large tote? I'd prefer spending time upfront spacing my seeds out and keeping track vs the scatter method? I do have the 2" soil blocker as well. You got my wheels turning. I love your sweater btw! 😊
That is a brilliant way to be able to space and count out seeds precisely! The roots will likely still be a little tricky to separate because of the solid soil block that they’ll share, but I love this idea! Thank you for watching and for the kind words. ☺️💚🌱
@Joyfulfarmer I really like aome of the modifications to the process, A+ Just wondering, do you have an Amazon affiliated page for some of your tools? Like the large 4 cell soil block maker or anything you use on the regular? Thanks!
@@mrdkoser thanks so much! 💚🌱 yes, here is the 2” soil blocker that I like and a list of some other favorites of mine.
amzn.to/4iRv41A
www.amazon.com/shop/joyfulfarmer/list/3O4FSEQZBOFOE?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_aipsflist_3BEG4GH2C72207P7XW71&language=en_US
Wonderful video
Thanks for the kind words and for watching! 💚🌱
Love these winter sowing videos. So nice to be able to break rules when they benefit your plants!! Where did you get your rectangular shoebox style boxes. That is actually my biggest dilemma as we don't drink that much milk or liquids that come in big containers. My favorite are 2 large spring water containers people turn upside down for water coolers. I guess I could check with Starbucks but would prefer the rectangle ones so they stack easier for storage. I read you have problems with them breaking down in the sun, I am in N MS and they will not be used once hot weather hits here. I have had success with direct sowing Breadseed poppies in late fall early winter too. Should try Delphiniums and Lupines which you don't normally see here.
@@josweatt898 i love the rectangular containers of greens from the grocery store - they work great! I had adopted a bunch of heavier duty clear containers that were going to be thrown away at school… but have also bought a set from Amazon. These have worked well and I got a used set that was just over a dollar per box. amzn.to/3Pqxirh and I am testing out some clear UV protectant spray this year to see if that helps with the plastic breaking down…hope that helps! Thank you for watching. 💚🌱
@ thank you for your response. Very helpful!
Hi, What is the tool (3:32) called to create the soil blocks? Thanks, Albert
@@albertmo1722 it is a soil blocker. Here is the one I use. 🙂
amzn.to/4iTLF4Q
@@Joyfulfarmer Thank you so much! You are so prompt! Cheers, Albert, SF, CA
Hi Kendall, I have since ordered a soil blocker from Amazon (as you instructed) :-) I cannot wait to try it out. Best, Albert
I did winter sowing a few years ago and it was amazing! I'm not sure why I haven't thought about doing it since?? I was just experimenting that year and it went very well! Thank you for this reminder! I'm in North Texas also, is right now a good time to start with perennials and cold tolerant things? Thank you for the abundance of info! ♥️
Howdy neighbor! ☺️ Yes!! I just prepped a bunch of containers for perennials, especially herbs, and native plants, as well as cool hardy annuals! Thank you so much for watching.💚💚💚🌱🌱🌱
Hi, Kendyll. You've offered good suggestions for modifications. Will you update Part I video description to link to this Part II video? Thanks!
@@ross-smithfamily6317 thank you for the reminder! 😊 done. ✅
Can you share a link for the totes you used?
These are some smaller ones I am using from Amazon: amzn.to/40p5FoF
The larger ones I have repurposed, but here are some similar ones you could put smaller pots into: amzn.to/4jbGpJV
I also am trying a UV protectant clear spray paint this year to see if they will last longer as well.
Hope that helps, thank you for watching. 💚🌱
Kendyll, thanks for making this video. I do like the idea of using soil blocks and placing them inside a larger container. I do not have a soil blocker tool and have never tried to make soil blocks before. I'd like to perhaps try the hack of filling clear plastic drink cups with soil mix and seeds, then placing them inside a large plastic bin with a lid. Based on your video, would this technique offer similar benefits of soil blocking? Thank you.
@@grizoswald210 that would give each plant more space to grow, and buy you time to be able to let the plants get bigger before planting out. You wouldn’t get the benefit of the airflow to roots, but as long as your potting mix is nice and light, it should work just fine. Just be sure you have holes in the bottom of the cups and holes in the lid and bottom of the container. You could also grow multiple plants in each cup and thin them out when they have true leaves. I like to do that to grow lots of varieties in one easy-to-move setup. Lots of ways to do it. ☺️💚🌱
@@Joyfulfarmer Thank you. Very good advice. As you said, either the 'drink cup' method or the soil blocks have the advantage of not disturbing the roots so much during transplanting. I may have to try this method. I'm in zone 6 so it's about time to get started with winter sowing.
I feel like it’s a good thing and a bad thing when we have warmer winters. I don’t get quite as depressed lol but I just worry that sometimes the plants could get froze back too many times in February and might not make it, like my blackberries and garlic, etc. We are zone 7 a/B in Oklahoma, so I feel like starting everything indoors is the safest bet to keep my heart from getting broken. The establish plants can handle it, but I’m just forgetful enough and hate the cold so much that I and probably not a good candidate… but, I do think that I will set things out a little earlier and be ready for some frost protection this year?
@@lmullens75 so true, those warm winters can sure trick our plants…and this winter is projected to be warmer…sticking with classic winter sowing might be good for you, also, since you are north of us. It works super well for natives, perennials, and cool hardy plants and could save you some room under the grow lights! I can be just as forgetful, lol…This year I’m going to start my mints, lavender, rosemary, bee balm, hyssop, and chamomile with classic winter sowing and they do fine winter sown outside in their containers even when temps dip down into the teens…I just toss a blanket over them at night if it gets that cold. Or you could test a few seeds in containers outside, too, and it might work out well! You just never know!
Hi Kendyll! I really enjoy your content. I sincerely invite you to test our brand's farming/gardening boots. I think they could greatly assist your activities! Are you interested in collaborating? How can I contact you?
@@lenacar3881 thank you for watching. 💚🌱 I’d be happy to hear more! You can contact us at deepjoyfieldandfarm@gmail.com.