Morning Emily. This is my first time reading your post. Are pansies the only crop you plant that you eat? Love the birthday cake idea!
I have 45 winter sowing jugs lined up in my kitchen that now have their holes and are cut open. I am in southern Maine, zone 5b … so very cold. This week we hit 40 degrees which is warm for us…. Going back to colder temps in the next few days.
I’ve gathered my seeds and my plan is to plant vegetables that need the longest to grow first. I will start with trombonecini squash, watermelon, melons, and carrots.
Hi Deb! So excited you're here and winter sowing! First- no, I grow lots of herbs and food, I'll link my list for that below. What you want to focus on right now in Maine is natives, perennials, and herbs that need cold stratification, and then move onto things that are cold hardy. Those will sprout in later winter when temperatures start to rise. As for the vegetables you mentioned, those are things you wouldn't want to start until the weeks leading up to your last frost date in the spring. The reason is because they are tender annual; their seeds don't like to sit in cool damp conditions for months (they can rot), they need warmer temperatures to germinate, and they can be damaged or killed by freezing temperatures. Lastly, I would skip carrots with this method as they aren't great for transnplanting. I'll link a previous blog below that walks through what to winter sow/what not to! Hope this helps!
Morning Emily. This is my first time reading your post. Are pansies the only crop you plant that you eat? Love the birthday cake idea!
I have 45 winter sowing jugs lined up in my kitchen that now have their holes and are cut open. I am in southern Maine, zone 5b … so very cold. This week we hit 40 degrees which is warm for us…. Going back to colder temps in the next few days.
I’ve gathered my seeds and my plan is to plant vegetables that need the longest to grow first. I will start with trombonecini squash, watermelon, melons, and carrots.
Heres my list of vegetables and herbs to start now! https://jugsow.com/blogs/learn/cold-hardy-herbs-vegetables-to-winter-sow
https://www.breadandcloth.com/p/when-to-start-winter-sowing
Hi Deb! So excited you're here and winter sowing! First- no, I grow lots of herbs and food, I'll link my list for that below. What you want to focus on right now in Maine is natives, perennials, and herbs that need cold stratification, and then move onto things that are cold hardy. Those will sprout in later winter when temperatures start to rise. As for the vegetables you mentioned, those are things you wouldn't want to start until the weeks leading up to your last frost date in the spring. The reason is because they are tender annual; their seeds don't like to sit in cool damp conditions for months (they can rot), they need warmer temperatures to germinate, and they can be damaged or killed by freezing temperatures. Lastly, I would skip carrots with this method as they aren't great for transnplanting. I'll link a previous blog below that walks through what to winter sow/what not to! Hope this helps!