How tall are they? I would plant them and find a way to cover them to give them some protection. A pop bottle with the bottom cut and lid removed works like a small clouche when placed over plants. If it's going too low you can always put the lid back on but remove it in the daytime to let excess heat escape. Don't let the leaves touch the bottle. Even a large pot put over them at night will help. It won't freeze when it's raining. Good luck--Batchelor buttons are pretty hardy and rather like it cool. The weather this year has not been good for gardeners. We had a big dump of snow yesterday and I'm dieing to get out in the greenhouse and get these plants out of my house

This is not even half of what i have planted so far but i just got tired typing them up! Shooting Star Clammweed Showy Trefoil American Bellflower Eastern Bluestar Prairie Dock Clasping Milkweed Common Milkweed Butterfly Weed Swamp Milkweed Green Antelopehorn Yucca Wild Bergamot Gray-Headed Coneflower Spotted Touch-Me-Not Black Raspberry Indian Woodoat Groundnut Great Coneflower Butterfly Bush Wingstem Missouri Primrose Cutleaf Grapefern Blue Skullcap Copper Iris Tall Larkspur Royal Catchfly Smooth Sumac Forget-Me-Not Queen of the Prairie Mexican Tulip Poppy Tall Coreopsis WIld Pea Short's Sedge Lanceleaf Tickseed Yellow Foxglove Willow Herb Datura Double Purple Scaly Blazing Star Downy Gentian Large Flowered Beardtongue Wild Hollyhock Prairie Smoke Tall Meadow Rue Groundplum Milkvetch Stiff Tickseed American Licorice Trailing Fuzzy Bean Cassia Partridge Pea Fireweed Birdfoot Trefoil Lewis Flax Red Onion Sundew Tennesse Coneflower Downy Sunflower Chicory Oxeye Trumpet Creeper Joepye Weed Welsh Poppy Indian Physic Evening Primrose False Foxglove Mexican Hat Ground Cherry Cardinal Flower Wild Columbine Poppy Mallow Clayton's Sweetroot Purslane Stinging Nettle St. Johns Wort Wild Petunia Wild Leek Cleavers White Rien Orchid Bottlebrush Grass Dotted Blazing Star Yelloweyed Grass Blueeyed Grass Spanish Flag Browneyed Susan Great Lobelia Wild Hydrangea Foxglove Beardtongue Swamp Vervain Rocky Mountain Bee Plant Scarlet Gillia Lyre Leafed Sage Gray's Sedge Partidge Berry Woodland Tobacco Jacob's Ladder Prickly Pear Indian Paintbrush Blue Lettuce

Sometimes I just do not have a bed ready to put plants in the ground so I sink the pot in my veg beds for the winter. They do just fine. I know I could plant them but then I would need to pot them up in the spring so I can use my veg bed. In the spring I pull the pots out of the ground so I can prepare my veg beds for early veggies. It is usually later before I can dig up lawn for new beds. This year I have added another holding bed and am working on several other beds so hopefully all my plants will be in the ground before winter,

You two are making me start to panic!!I can't believe it is nearly the end of February and I haven't started sowing yet. We were away for most of January, then I came home to a sick child and spent the first half of the month nursing him back to good health. On Friday I went to Walmart - no seed starter. I remembered seeing some Pro-Mix at Canadian Tire and went there - no seed-starter except some small bags by Miracle-Grow which I never buy, but at least there is no fertilizer in it. Today I brought in my containers from the garage so I should be able to do some sowing tomorrow. Of course I am still doing trades. Wish me luck!!