Winter Sowing
It’s January 4 and I’m already planting seeds for 2021. Found a video describing Winter Sowing using discarded milk jugs. Figured it was worth a try. If I can get four plants from each milk jug, I’ll count it as a success.
I had milk jugs left over from Christmas vacation, so in went Delphinium, Foxglove, Morning Glory and Penstemon seed collected from my garden last summer. So essentially free seeds!
Now I’ll hit the local Starbucks and see if I can score more discarded milk jugs.
A list of seeds that are good candidates for winter sowing:
Abronia umbellata (sand-verbena)
Adonis aestivalis (pheasant’s eye)
Ageratum houstonianum (floss flower)
Agrostemma githago (corn cockle)
Alonsoa acutifolia (maskflower)
Amaranthus caudatus (love-lies-bleeding)
Amberboa moschata (sweet sultan)
Anagallis indica (blue pimpernel)
Anchusa (bugloss)
Alyssum maritimum (sweet alyssum)
Antirrhinum majus (snapdragons)
Argemone mexicana (prickly poppy)
Asperula azurea (woodruff)
Brachycome iberidifolia (swan river daisy)
Browallia demissa (bush violet)
Bupleurum rotundifolium (ox-eye daisy)
Calandrinia grandiflora (red-maids)
Calendula (pot marigold)
Callistephus (China aster)
Campanula (annual Canterbury bells)
Celosia (cockscomb)
Centaurea (cornflower)
Centranthus macrosiphon (valerian)
Chrysanthemum paludosum (mini-marguerite)
Clarkia elegans
Collinsia bicolor (Chinese-houses)
Collomia coccinea (mountain-trumpet)
Consolida ajacis (Larkspur)
Convolvulus (dwarf/bush morning glory)
Coreopsis tintoria (calliopsis)
Cosmos bipinnatus (tall cosmos)
Cosmos sulphureus (sulphur cosmos)
Crepis rubra (hawks-beard)
Cuphea ignea (fiery cuphea)
Cynoglossum (Chinese forget-me-not)
Datura species (thorn-apple)
Delphinium (larkspur)
Dianthus chinensis (China pinks)
Diascia barberm (twinspur)
Dicranostigma franchetianum (bright-yellow poppy)
Dimorphotheca aurantiaca (Cape marigold)
Dracocephalum moldavica (Moldavian dragonhead)
Echium creticurn (bugloss)
Emilia javanica (tassel flower)
Eschschlotzia californica (California poppy)
Fagopyrum esculentum (buckwheat)
Felicia bergeriana (kingfisher daisy)
Gaillardia pulchella (blanket flower)
Gilia (bird’s-eye)
Godetia (fairyfan, farewell-to-spring)
Gypsophila (baby’s breath)
Helianthus (sunflowers)
Helichrysum (strawflower)
Helipterum (paper daisy)
Hunnemannia fumariifolia (Mexican tulip poppy)
Iberis (candytuft)
Ionopsidium acaule (false diamond-flower)
Lathyrus odoratus (sweet peas)
Lavatera (annual mallow)
Leonorus (lion’s paws)
Limnanthes douglasii (poached-egg plant)
Limonium sinuatum (statice)
Linaria bipartita (toadflax)
Linum (flax)
Lobularia (alyssum)
Lupinus (lupine)
Lychnis (catchfly)
Malcomia maritima (Virginian stock)
Malope trifida (malope)
Malva (mallow)
Matthiola bicornis (night-scented stock)
Myosotis dissitiflora (forget-me-not)
Nemesia strumosa (Cape jewels)
Nemophila (baby blue-eyes)
Nicandra (shoo-fly)
Nicotiana (flowering tobacco)
Nigella (love-in-the-mist)
Osteospermum (Star of the Veldt)
Papaver (poppy)
Petunia hybrida (petunias)
Phacelia (scorpion weed)
Phlox drummondii (drummon phlox)
Rehmannia angulata (Chinese foxgloves)
Reseda odorata (mignonette)
Rudbeckia bicolor (gloriosa daisy)
Salpiglossis sinuata (painted tongue)
Salvia splendens (scarlet sage)
Sanvitalia procumbens (creeping zinnia)
Saponaria vaccaria (soapwort)
Scabiosa (pincushion flower)
Schizanthus pinnatus (butterfly flower)
Senecio elegans (ragwort)
Silene armeria (none-so-pretty)
Specularia speculum (Venus’ looking glass)
Thunbergia alata (clockvine)
Tithonia rotundifolia (Mexican sunflower)
Torenia fournieri (wishbone flower)
Trachymene caerulea (laceflower)
Tropaeolum (nasturtiums)
Ursinia anethoides (dill-leaf ursinia)
Vaccaria (cow soapwort)
Venidium fastuosum (Cape daisy)
Viola tricolor (pansy)
Viscaria (rose-of-heaven)
Xeranthemum (everlasting flower)
Watch Yuliya in New Jersey for her winter sowing reveal last Spring. Really sweet!
