Hi all. Started out researching tomatoes and somehow found Trudi's site and then discovered wintersowing! So, I have a ton of tomatoes - seriously, I have donated $25 twice, so I have many, many, many toms and I am so happy. I went ahead and wintersowed a few even though some in my zone wait until later because I just had to start! Was originally looking for seeds that I could wintersow successfully now but found a bunch of perenial seeds for sale at my local hardware store so I'm set! Ricjo22, I looked at your list and I don't even know what all that stuff is! Off to try again on setting up a trade list. Thanks for the help! I love this site! Susan

Winter Sowing can work everywhere Nis941 - just try and get your seeds together early each season and have your supplies ready and when the cool/cold weather is coming GET THEM OUT THERE (even if it's before the recommended date of Dec. 21..this year we had an early cold snap).

Yep Menards is where I went. We had a lot of snow and they did not shovel. All my favorite promix was hidden behind 2-3 feet of snow... lol Now that we are melting I am going to go out there and get some snow or not! My menards had all the dirt/soil outside in an area where the snow blew in all over. I plan to check it out tonight or tomorrow to get some of the awesome promix! I loved it last year. Karen

everything growing nicely. two failure cases. impatiens and gazania. hardly any seedlings, may be seeds were bad, these were last year's bargain seeds. major damage that happened during vacation is to poppies. poppies are lying on ground and turned yellow. looks like lack of water, sun or may be a fox walked over them. i am trying to revive them. a bush which looked so thin while planting poppies, has grown so much in my absence and taken over the poppies area. person watering jugs in my absence removed all tags. i have no way to distinguish between different lobelias and marigolds! planted out - bachlers button - cornflower - calendula - california poppy - candytuft - Night Scented Stock - Alyssum Carpet-of-Snow - Stock: Dwarf Ten Week - Nicotiana Sensation - Mignonette - petunia - aster - livingston daisy - Swan River Daisy Bravo Mix - sweet peas (just three plants) - Rudbeckia - petunia - pot - multi - Convolvulus tricolor - phlox (annual one) - verbena - runner beans - lobelia - crystal-trailing with leaves- still in jugs - Alyssum Carpet-of-Snow - lobelia - blue - marrigold - african - marrigold - french - pansy - clear - pansy - mini - pansy - giant - petunia - rose - single - tomato - salvia - zinnia failure cases - Gazania - impatien double yet to sow - nasturtium - zinnia (remaining seeds) - marigold (remaining seeds) - morning glory autumn sown in bloom - pansy autumn sown showing growth now - sweet william - snapdragon non wintersown plants - dahlias tuber transplant successful and it got leaves - one of the dead geranium showed some sign of life! - rose have got buds. - jasmine blooming - lily of valley pips showing some leaves.