Gail,
I haven't started, but yes, all this snow is definitely getting me in the mood.
I'm mostly "getting ready to get ready". I'm taking my second graduate course which will finish up next week, so that's been taking up a lot of my time. Plus we're renovating here in my house too (which means I lost my overwintering spot for my tubers).
I still don't have my bulbs in the ground, and I don't think I want to do it in all this snow (be kinda like ice-fishing). So I'm probably going to start them all in pots.
In the meantime, I'm clearing off my table to get ready to go through my seeds. I need to at least find the seeds I'm sowing for Solstice.
My opened bag of Promix is sitting on the porch, getting frozen. I have to clear a spot in my kitchen and transfer the soil to a kitty-litter bucket to make for a kinder, gentler, CLEANER WSing experience :-)

So...I don't think you can live vicariously thru me, but isn't it nice to have snow? I hope we have snow cover through the whole season--it's good for the plants already in the ground.

Linda

Well, brought my pro mix indoor to the enclosed porch- frozen outside. I have still last year WS about 50 containers of various long term germinators or those ones I am not ready to give up hope yet. I have started some aconitums, corydalis, arisaema draconitum, few geraniums, dodecatheons, etc.
I have full blown indoor set up going with bunch of herabaceous clems and aroids from last year going. Also started some pansies, trailing dianthus and primulas for early spring show. Germinated few streaked hostas- those tiny beauties already look good showing various streaks.
I do not go into full WS mood until mid Feb. For now just sitting there playing with seeds, sorting what goes first is enough ;)

Winter is definitely starting off like it used to when I was a kid. We haven't seen this kind of early cold and snow in the Atlantic provinces in ages! Just might get our first white Christmas since 1998 which would truly be nice.

The cold took many gardeners here quite by surprise. We are already starting to cover the gardens with evergreen boughs, something which is usually done after the holidays around these parts since the ground doesn't freeze until early January. But it's already frozen and we've had to scurry. Usually we use the Christmas tree for the garden covering. Ooops!! LOL!

The weather is certainly pushing the envelope on thoughts of winter sowing and there could be an early start to it in this house for sure!

I started just after Thanksgiving here in Mid-MI. I promised DH that I would wait to start until after the holidays but it has been so cold I couldn't hold out. He just rolls his eyes as I bring another container out the patio door. Here's some of what I have sown so far:

Pulsatilla 'Red Cloak'
Hardy Geraniums
Siberian Iris (thank you Bakemom)
unknown pilfered Orn. Grass seed
Oriental Poppy
Gaillardia
Coreopsis 'Sunburst'
Amsonia
Eryngium Miss Willmott's Ghost
Monarda
Sedum 'Matrona'
Agastache lavendar hyssop
Unknown Yellow primrose
Joe Pye Weed
Malva 'Zebrina'

This year I am trying something new for me. Clear rubbermaid containers with holes drilled in the lids and bottoms filled with recycled nursery pots and cups. We'll see how it goes.

Linda: I swear, girlfriend, that you are certifiable. Someone needs to have you committed to the funny farm. You, who were buried under seven FEET of snow last winter, are hoping for snow all winter?

And my husband calls me a wacko?

Karen

I started cutting drainage holes in some bottles yesterday and before I knew it, I had planted 9 types of seeds. We had 5 inches of snow during the week and more coming tonite. I couldnt wait and since its my first time, I indulged myself.

I planted Beauty Berry, Iris, some veggies, some melons and five blackberry seeds from breakfast this morning.

I found some regular old plastic planting pots that just need a baggie over the top, save some cutting time also.

:)

I bought 2 bales of 3.8 cu ft Pro Mix and I think 450 black mum pots. They are squat pots about 6" diam and only 4 1/2" deep on sale for $15.00.

I need to get my seeds from the swaps and then separate them into categories to see what I have and what I can start with.

So basically I have barely started.

Lime

Linda: I swear, girlfriend, that you are certifiable. Someone needs to have you committed to the funny farm. You, who were buried under seven FEET of snow last winter, are hoping for snow all winter?

:-)
You have me laughing out loud!
...yes...I am definitely certifiable...I'd better go look at those pictures from last February....

But then again, I must be looking at the advantage of having it accumulate over three months rather than over three days...lol. That was absolutely insane last year!

Linda

Well I went to a local farm market and low and behold, they had their seed rack out! I think they must have it out for people who like to give homemade baskets away for Christmas??? Whatever the reason, I was in my glory. I got seeds for False Indigo, that white Cupid's Dart, something I never heard of called Pagoda, and some lettuce and root veggie seeds...I'm thinking of trying to sow some lettuce indoors...desperate for fresh greens. The others are getting WSed.
They say we're getting another storm, but they don't know how or what it will be...It's good for keeping me in the mood.

Linda