Me! I should be doing it this weekend though!

I haven't planted out either, at least in my own garden. I did my mothers memorial garden last weekend and hope to get mine done this weekend. Some things still look too little for planting out but they will get plopped anyway.

Joanne

I only have put a few in my containers. I'm still working on weeding my beds before putting them in. It's slow going. :)
Monica

Ive got a ton of stuff. I already planted some of the things that germinated early, but I think I planted them too early, cuz some of them seem to have.... gone awol. Some of them are still there, just not doing much yet. its too darn cold here still.

garumffff

Haven't planted out a single sprout yet. I am also still working on thoroughly weeding and rearranging my beds. Meanwhile, the sprouts aren't really getting enough warmth or sunshine to get much bigger. But that's ok with me, I don't feel a lot of pressure to get them in the ground.

I'm not finished yet, don't know if I'll finish at all this year. Why do I do this to myself every year? I've got containers and containers of snap dragons, white salvia, verbena, amaranthus, and God only knows what else to get in the ground "somewhere and someday".
Alberta

I planted a few, not much. I think I'll wait till Memorial Day, or that weekend. It's not too warm here. I've been busy making flower beds to put these babies in!

Me! Work & weather have not been cooperating. Hoping to get some things planted this weekend, but it's suppose to be rainy. I'll definitely be planting over Memorial Day weekend.

I will join the club! I only planted out a couple things that were looking at me like,"Hey lady,if you don't put me in the ground soon,I am going to die!"
We have had so many rainy days,the sunny ones have been dedicated to preparing beds. I am hoping to at least get my annuals in before the end of next week!

Moi. The poppies are the only ones really ready to go, and I should have done it today because it was cloudy but they're all still in part shade, and it's still in the lower 40's some nights. If I open up the other containers, since they germinated so sparesely or are still coming up, I'll have to battle the squirrels and chipmunks. They destroy any seedlings in nice, loose soil they can get their paws in unless the plants have fully filled them out. Guess I'll have to lay chicken wire over them.

I have been planting out a little bit (like one or two containers) every couple of days (when it's not raining, which seems to be rarely...)Maybe averaging about 4 a week for a few weeks now. Let's see...at this rate, with over 200 containers, I do believe I will be out there till Christmas!

Really guys...SPRINGS GOTTA COME! I just can't seem to get all excited about putting things in the ground as the stuff thats in is doing NOT MUCH. Though the weeds certainly are growing full force. Spent some time after work today trying to teach myself how to be super fast and effective with one of those scuffle hoes so that there will be room when I get down to planting out seriously.

Scuffle hoes and circle hoes are the best for shallow-rooted things. They don't quite do it for big taproot types like dandelions, though.

Karen

I've planted out 16 containers out of 158 so far. Well, there are at least 3 duds at this point, so make that 16 out of 155. Alyssum, Snapdragons, Rudbeckia, Gaillardia, and a few Monarda seedlings have managed to make it in the ground.

139 containers to go..yikes! Thank goodness some have only a few sprouts. I've been working steadily on preparing beds, trying to make space for all these seedlings. Still have no idea where a lot of these are going to go!

Nan do you like the scuffle hoe? I really need a good hoe to get rid of all the little unwanted seedlings that have sprouted in the gardens.

out of my 279 containers i've planted up about 6. maybe. today i planted out lavander phlox. I still have about 50 containers with no germination. i am so bummed. i'm not ready to give up on them. i took all thier lids off today as tomorrow its supposed to be 93 which is really odd for oregon. the average temps are 60's. we went from the 40s and 50s to the high 70', 80' and 90's. it's nuts!! i do have about 15 that perennials ready to plant out and about 50 annuals. i just need the time!!
Tanya

I am looking forward to yard time this comming week, still makin beds, I have a few in pots & a small amount in the ground but TONS more to do ! I love this stuff! hahahaha ")
Jan ")

I have only planted a few of my things and those being poppies other than that nothing has gone into the ground. It had been at first too cold and now it is just too wet and well planting in the mud is not fun. I did get my cannas planted and few of my dahlias that made it thru not many of those.

But I did transfer alot of the seedlings into other trays and cups and other items for now to get a wea bit bigger.

Paula

My seeds are just sprouting. Last year most everything had sprouted by now but we are about two weeks behind due to cold rainy weather. Temps in the 70s today and all next week so should see some growth quickly.

The scuffle hoe has been raved about here on the forum and a friend who runs a landscape business has his crew using these all day long. You sort of get a "double bonus" for your efforts cause it can cut on the pull and the push. I have been using it in beds that are covered with tiny seedlings of a weed that fooled me last year (thought it was just my cleome reseeding)and is really hard to get out once it gets bigger. It works very well on these tiny seedlings, less well on perennial weeds with deep,tough roots (those I'm still hand pulling).

Ditto. Heck, I even have containers from last year that haven't been planted yet !!! But they are going strong and are just waiting to be popped in. Good news is that I have almost 100% germination rate. 33 out of 34. I didn't sow as many containers this year on purpose because I realized last year that I just didn't have the time to plant them out let alone prepare enough space for them. So I restrained myself this year and only sowed the absolutely must haves.

It's supposed to rain here all day, but I'll be out there transplanting in between the more heavy downpours. These babies will be so much stronger for being planted early this year.

Good luck to y'all!
Marianne

Nasty cucky weather here again today! A nice drizzle would be acceptable,but this rain along with 48 degree temps is ridiculous! I know it is best to plant out on an overcast day,but the mud and temps are keeping me from it yet again! UGH!

Not even half of mine are planted out, but at least now I have a path through the open containers on the patio to the laundry room. LOL!
Maybe this weekend I will get more planted out. Been shoveling composted horse manure and amending the beds and it's slow-going with the weather interruptions (and my pesky job!).
BTW, I LOVE my scuffle-hoe! Best $$ ever spent.

Not a single seedling has been planted out!
We are going to have good weather this weekend. My BB and Johnny Jump ups are screaming to be planted, but they are hardy and have dealt with the confinement.
I need to get moving and get to the garden center today. I have no compost since I moved and the soil needs some ammendments before I plant out
Betsy

What is a scuffle hoe and do you just use it for weeding? Anyone have a good link? I know I could google.

I was using scuffle hoe today, It's a garden must have. Scuffled around the corn, potatoes and in the paths. I keep getting to busy to put down preen in the woods ... I scuffle up the garlic mustard spouts, I lost count of what I planted out but I remember lettuce, peas, cabbage, radish, turnip, red onion, purple coneflower, American legion poppy, tomato, foxglove and carnation still must have 75 containers to go.

Here is a link that might be useful: scuffle hoe

Thank you for taking that photo for me/us. I'm still kind of in the dark. You are saying you using it to plant seedlings, not weeding, right?

OK, I've got my ws plants in milk jugs and now started a couple weeks ago with some KFC covered dinner containers with the 3 compartments. Do you use it to take it out of your containers, guessing not, or I'm going to take a guess. You use it to "scrape" up enough dirt at the right depth to set in your plants, no? If so, I can see how that would be convenient rather than using a spade or trowel.

BTW, I have found my bulb planter works well for setting in seedlings, especially those in plastic cups, I let mine get fairly largish, but don't see why it wouldn't work for tinier ones. Just crumble and backfill to the proper depth. Worked great for my salvia and Siberian wallflower last year (which I did grow from seed but not ws). Well I did start it outside in containers like I am using now, just in the spring, don't like to start any plants in the house from seed if I don't have to.

If this thing works, it would be easier than the bulb planter because that does require more pushing, twisting, fiddling w/backfill and bending.

Planted out - nothing, nada, zilch, zero, zip.
They're saying snow Sunday night into Monday.
~sigh~
My sprouts have been sitting at...well...sprouts for weeks and weeks on end. Not even one set of true leaves yet, much less two.
This winter (I could swear we haven't seen hide nor hair of spring yet) is never gonna end. It's almost June for Pete sake!
Grrrr!

May has been unusually chilly for my part of the country. It's just now starting to look like I can get on w/planting. Snow in May I don't remember ever. Bummer.

we just started, i've been procastinating. i got two rows done. ugh!! and like many more to go. but my hands are soooo tired!!! LOL like 3 HEE HEE but flower beds and stuff i have to get a move on, i'm sooo not ready for that yet!! ugh!! i was waiting for them to pop up, now its hot!! ummmm in the 80's. but i have to till, i've tons of crabgrass to go thru!! and i'm using a mantis tiller, befor ya say it, i know, your not suppose to use that, but its all i have, LOL then we'll sit back and wait and watch it all come in alot better!! LOL uhhh the roots on them babie!! WOW!! i am soooo amazed!!!

I have only planted out a few containers-worth so far. Many of my containers have tiny sprouts that don't even have true leaves yet, but had sprouted a month ago. They are frozen in time, or something! Foxglove and the belladonna delphinium are the only ones that have grown big enough to plant out. Oddly enough, the magic fountains delphinium is not nearly as far along as the belladonna delphinium. I would have though they would grow at a roughly equal rate, since they are both the same species.

Oh well, it's all a grand experiment, and still lots of fun!

Lois in PA

I have planted out a few WS things. I planted out some Mystic Merlin Mallow. In one area it is about 3-4 inches high, and in another it looks - maybe - 1/2" taller than when I planted it a couple of weeks ago. I planted out some lupine, Flanders poppies, antique sweetpeas, larkspur, and dwark and teddy bear sunflowers yesterday and today. (Farmer's almanac said they were good days for flower beds.)

I also planted out tomatoes yesterday(not winter sown) because I optimistcally thought we would have no more chances of frost because mother nature has to give Wisconsin a break now. NOT SO! Frost advisory tonight, so I spent time bringing the annual WS containers in and tucking sheets around and over my tomatoes. I am hoping a microclimate will mean the patchy frost will skip us. (And I just realized now that I planted out a couple of Harlequin marigolds that looked ready to leap from their containers, and I forgot to cover them. Oh well, I'm sure I can find three more of something to replace them. :) Flagstaff marigolds, for instance. :)

cheers,
Nora

I thought I messed up when seedlings stopped growing but was hoping it's because temps dropped and it's been raining cats and dogs. Relieved but sorry to see others have same situation and it's (hopefully) not my sowing incompetence.

Dug hole to plant some roses and ground is like thick quicksand. Keep reading it's a cardinal rule not to dig in wet clay. Those poor little things just getting 1st set of true leaves would suffocate in that mess we call soil around here. Besides, need to add some rough organic stuff and sharp sand/gravel into clay to give the babies a fighting chance at some drainage. Bagged compost, green sand and sphagnum peat don't seem to have done much since worked in last fall to help with soil but it's slow process and I'm not patient!

Seems like flowers won't be seen around here until July if rain and chilly weather keep up.

I've been running in and out moving babies from pounding rain to garage and vice versa. They were just swimming if I left them out there 24/7.

Instead of planting I've been pulling weeds which seem to thrive in downpours, making sure leaves are out from under all bushes and trimming back mammoth forsythia jungle that hadn't been thinned in 10 years. It took over one side of the driveway and I couldn't stand it anymore so I crawled under there and pruned from center. I know it'll grow right back by summer but we needed the parking space! Of course, Forsythia loves clay soil...and people actually pay for this stuff to plant it. Except for that glorious short blooming time it's a thug.

Thank goodness I was too tied up and otherwise lazy to sow more containers. I did succumb to a recycling center score at my condo development. Got perfectly good spring sowing containers, underbed storage containers and 2 laundry baskets to carry small containers around and/or bottom water things I put under African violet lights in father's basement. Washed all in bleach and they have come in very handy. They're having bulk trash collection here in my father's town next week and I'm sorely tempted to drive around like a night scavenger as there are probably some very nice things thrown out that I can use as planters and/or use to make small raised beds. This gardening venture has gotten way too expensive with all the amendments, soil and things I've bought to grow these guys and there's perfectly good "stuff" people throw away.

I haven't planted anything out yet, it hasn't been warm enough, I've also learned to wait until the end of May. It was chilly here, but now warming up this week.
My hubby did dig a 12x8 veggie patch out for me, but that's all so far.

Okay, I've planted 22 containers and dumped 6 now, out of 158! Only 120 to go! I'm sure there will be a few more duds too.

Some of the slower growing perennials and vines like Baptisia, Campsis radicans, etc. I am going to transplant into 16 oz. cups to grow up for awhile. Maybe plant them out in the fall?

Btw, I bought a scuffle hoe yesterday! Got to the nursery about 5 minutes before they closed and asked for a "scuffle hoe". They had no idea what I was talking about. They called it a "stirrup hoe". Couldn't wait to go out and try it this morning. What an amazing tool! How could I have gardened for 20 years without one of these? Weeding out all those little seedlings is now a breeze. Just have to avoid the WS babies and the reseeders I want to keep. :)

I was finally able to get some more out over the last few days, I was running back and forth to get out of the wind and the rain,but was able to accomplish planting out my, African Daisies,Livingstone Daisies,Malope and alyssum.I also planted out a few Clarkia and Salvia Microphylla. Other than that I havent been able to get anything else out. Spent yesterday preparing another bed,we are to have some pleasant days ahead,so after going to help Gramma get beds ready,I am all set to plant out....I hope..lol...

Planting out? Heck no. Still waiting for sprouts here (have about a dozen out of 80 sprouted). I think spring may finally be here. Highs are getting into the 60s pretty regular now but the lows have still been to 40. I did just get back from a trip to Alaska and was very pleased to see the leaves had finally come out on the trees. Hoping to see more sproutage once the lows get a little warmer :)

For now I'll just keep weeding my butt off so the beds are ready for new babies :)

I haven't planted out my SW plants here at home but have helped my "nanny boys" put 86 plants in their garden. Tomorrow we hope to put in the WS tomatoes and M. Glories, unless we get rain. Every one of our WS tomatoes germinated, we were so pleased! I still have all of mine to plant out and have a graduation out of town this Memorial Day weekend,help! The week after I will be gone on Wed. eve but hope to be home planting the rest of the evenings after work. So much to do, so little time. I feel better knowing I am not the only one who needs to complete this process.
Tina

Nope, haven't planted out yet. Have to finish the lasagna bed first and then a planting I will go! We have the first two layers done and hubby is trucking in the topsoil tomorrow. The bed is huge so will take nearly all of my little seedlings to fill it up. Sunday is the first I will be planting out! Yee Ha!