Congratulations on your sproutlings!! May they live long, bloom-heavy lives and grow to be colorful additions to your flowerbeds. It's easy to get impatient when you provide the best growing medium & optimal growing conditions but it's best to stand back once that's done and let the seeds do what they do best...sprout when the time is right. Tomorrow I'm going to be planting ornamental dogwood trees I grew from seed via winter sowing--they're nearly 3 ft. tall and well branched so it's time to get them in the ground and let them do their thing. It'll be bittersweet in some ways--I'll be planting them beside the stumps of mature dogwoods that snapped off 12 ft. from the ground back in the October snowstorm and had to be cut down.

A cool, dry area is best for storing your seeds, and is preferable to refrigeration. Here's some advice on your moonflowers: Before planting your moonflowers, soak the seeds in water at least 8 hours, then plant them about one-inch deep into the soil. Then, once the plant begins to grow a few inches, wrap it around something gently and encourage it to grow like a vine. Moonflower grows pretty rapidly, and can grow anywhere from 12 to 20 feet in length. It's important to mulch the moonflowerÂs soil regularly and pick back any dying flowers or leaves to encourage new, healthy growth. Good luck and happy planting! Here is a link that might be useful: The Gardening Seeds Guide

I admit I don't know much about Egyptian walking onions but I had 4 different species of onions last year that went through 3 major freezes and they seem to like it and thrived quite well.

Hi Veronica! Where to start... First, the seeds on damp builders sand, are they in an enclosed container, or simply sitting on the top of the sand in an open container? If it's open and your refrigerator is frost-free, they are being kept too dry to germinate. If the container is enclosed, you should bury them under the damp sand about a quarter of an inch below the surface. Some people sprout their seeds on damp paper toweling, enclosed in either zip loc baggies or other enclosed containers. The temperature of the refrigerator also makes a difference. The lower the temperature, the longer the seeds hold before germinating. Some will sprout below forty degrees, many won't. Supposedly, germination begins to fall off at temps above 70F, but I see many sprout well up into the eighties. I would plant them in the sand to about a quarter of an inch depth and make sure the sand is still damp and it is well covered to prevent it from drying out. Dry storage will hold the seeds longer without germination. Some believe drying them out will cause them to take even longer to germinate. If they haven't germinated by the time your outdoor temps fall into the sixties and seventies, remove the container from the refrigerator and place it where it will receive those temps. Hopefully, that will be indoors where you can keep an eye on them without the container filling full of water or something getting in and eating the seeds. Rodents LOVE rose seed. Good luck!