Seed Starting

[mallt]

I went to a seed talk put on by the Calgary Horticulture Society last night. 3 talks, the first was about starting seeds inside under lights, the second was on seed collecting & direct sowing and the third was about winter sowing.

I was planning on starting some seeds inside (& I have but I was going to do more) but I knew it would be less than perfect as I don't have a full light set up. The rest I was going to direct seed in the spring when it finally got warm enough.

Now however I think I'm going to give winter sowing a try... the biggest problem will be finding containers to do it in as the lady who gave the talk last night said her best results came from the 4l milk jugs & we don't drink milk! Certainly something I'm going to read more about anyway...

Comments

[ethnowoman.livejournal.com]

Gosh I could have brought a whole bunch to Inv and dropped them with Og. We go through gallon jugs like crazy. Good luck! How nice to have green sprouty things in winter.

[mallt.livejournal.com]

Ah well... that's just typical! lol

[wendy-licious.livejournal.com]

We have lots of milk containers. Do you need plastic or paper?
I've heard good things about planting in little pots made from newspaper that you then place right in the ground with your sprout come spring. Not sure how it works but you could Google it...

[mallt.livejournal.com]

The opaque (this is important!) plastic 4l jug.
I'll shall go aGoogling!