It’s definitely the season for winter seed sowing at the moment and in today’s video that is exactly what I’m doing in my garden.
It’s very exciting for me as I’ve never tried this method of seed sowing before - it was only September 2020 that I sowed my very first seeds ever, and then in March 2021 I set up a proper indoor seed sowing system with growlights, so seed sowing is all very new to me.
So today I have sown 6 seeds in each of my 10 milk jugs and I’m sharing with you all exactly how to do this, just in case some of you have never tried. I highly recommend you all give it a go because it’s just so simple to do and everyone else seems to have huge success with it! So my fingers are crossed I will as well.
Today I have sown the following:
Echinacea Pink Parasol Potentilla Melton Fire Cerinthe Major Purpurascens Zinnia Queeny Mixed Cardoon Echinacea Green Twister Zinnia Zinderella Peach Echinops Ritro Zinnia Forecast Ageratum Blue Mink
So we’ll see what happens!!
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Hi everyone, Jeanette here with my beautiful attractive assistant Lottie
who are going to help me do the winter seed sowing method because it's all the rage.
I have not done it before. Have you? No? Neither of us have done it before.
It's all the rage. We've got to get on board. Let's give it a go. She smells peachy.
We're going to make little tiny mini greenhouses and plant our seeds in them and we can leave
them there and we can forget about them and these seeds are going to be so hardy so where you sow
things inside under grow lights, that is amazing, I'm going to do that too, but I'm just doing a
little few seeds of each of the ones that I will be doing inside in these to see what happens.
Everyone has such success with it and they're hardy so whereas your grow lights ones you have
to start hardening them off, you have to spend time bringing them outside an hour here, two hours,
three hours, four hours and all that, which I will have to do that too, but this is apparently
a fabulous method. You just leave them outside. They just have to be see-through or opaque like
this so that the sunlight can get to them. All we have to do is put some drainage holes in the bottom.
That's very important. Just some little holes like that. Some people put them in the sides as well.
You want to have about four inches of soil in, enough for the roots, but you've also got to think
these plants need some room to grow. I'm only going to put a few seeds in here so we'll cut it along
all the way around like that. I've got a little hinge, a little planting spot. This is cute.
That's that done. Next piece of advice I've learned is you don't use seed starting mix
as you would with your normal seeds because these are going to be in here and they need
a little bit of nutrients so we're having potting compost instead. We need to mix it up with some
water. Now we need to get messy. We need to add enough water. That's not enough at all.
It's got to be moist. You must have moist soil because we're not going to water these ever again.
This is it. The only water they will get is from the rain.
Got to be moist. I think a little bit more. I think that's okay. You want it like
you can squeeze it to a clump like that but water's not running out but it's nice and moist.
I think that will do. Fill up the pots like that.
That is the messy bit. The worst bit's over. I was very annoyed. I just ran out of soil as
you may have noticed. I have bought some beautiful seeds. Oh they're just gorgeous. I have a whole
host. I have Echinacea Pink Parasol. I have Potentilla Melt and Fire. We have Syrinth Major
Pure Purasens. Some Zinnias Queenie Mixed. Cardoons. Now I've wanted to do cardoons for a while.
Echinacea Green Twister. Zinnia Zinderella Peach. Echinops Retro. Zinnia Forecast.
Aduratum Blue Mink. Some of them are perennials and some are annuals. I've done my labels.
Did all that. It's always a good idea to do your labels first because you get messy. You get cold
and you need your labels. I'm going to put the labels inside. I'll probably write on the outside
as well. So I'm going to do one to show you. I'm only going to put a very few seeds in. I'm not
going to double sew them. I'm just going to put maybe six in each and maybe nine in the big one.
So let's give it a go. I'll show you the first one. This is very exciting.
So here's my first one. Just press it all down nice and neat and stick that there to weigh it down.
That'll do. Right here we go. So I'm just doing six little seeds. That's all I'm going to do
and I'll follow the instructions for each seed type. That's it. Give them room to grow
and I do have some vermiculite so I'm going to use that
to cover them with and that is my Echinacea Pink Parasol. One down, nine to go.
And so that's it. A real fun little job. I did give them all a little squirt and that is the
last time that we would be watering them. We don't have to do anything else. So all you do is seal
them up with a bit of duct tape. If I can find the end. Just seal them up into their little
green houses and that's it. Write the name on the side. My writing is terrible because my hands are
so cold. Here we go. All done. All in their little homes for the next couple of months.
So that is it. I'm so glad I gave this a go and we don't have to do anything apart from
have a little look every now and then. No more watering. No more nothing. I wish them all success
and I'll be monitoring them and I will keep you updated and I hope you give it a go.
That's it. I'm Jeanette. I'm the Enthusiastic Gardener. Thank you so much for watching.
Have fun in your gardens and I will see you very very soon. Thank you. Bye.
