Avid gardeners spend the winter months browsing through seed catalogs and gardening books. Soon they just can’t help themselves and begin seeding and placing the seed trays strategically under grow lights and near sunny windows, realizing quite quickly that they don’t have enough space for all the seeds they want to get under way.
So if you too, have more seeds than spaces and available resources allow, winter sowing is the answer! I tried it last year and was amazed with how easy it really is. Interest in winter sowing was revived by Trudi Davidoff, an ambitious gardener. In fact, in 2006 the USDA added the term – winter sowing – to the National Agricultural Library Thesaurus.
Now is the time for Winter Sowing; so try it for yourself! There’s a lot of information out there on the internet. Here are a few sites I found with detailed information where you can glean useful tips and don’t forget to search for Master Gardener demonstrations for this technique on You Tube as well.
Additional Resources:
Winter Sown
A Garden For The House
The Cold Facts, Winter Sowing Works
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