Backyard Food-Growing, Organic Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Tree Growing, Winter Sowing, Jug Seed Sowing, Juicing, Smoothie Tips for New and Seasoned Gardeners and People Committed To Healing and Staying Healthy
How Do I Know When To Water My Winter Sowing Containers? …this is a great question that I get asked in our Winter Sowing group almost daily. I had to water my 114 containers yesterday and thought I’d take you along with me! In this video, I show you 4 signs to look for to know when to water your Winter Sowing Containers. I also show you the 3 ways you can water your Winter Sowing containers and milk jugs and I show you my favorite method of the 3 watering methods. In many climates, you will not need to water very much at all. In other warmer areas, you may need to water as much as daily! Learn how to know the perfect watering schedule for your Winter Sowing milk jugs and other containers.
LEARN ABOUT THE AMAZING WINTER SOWING METHOD (AKA MINI-GREENHOUSE METHOD or MILK JUG SOWING)!: Grow your own gorgeous organic vegetable, herb and fruit seedlings outside in your back yard or patio in the SNOW or COLD WEATHER from seeds in little FREE recycled containers (mini-greenhouses) like milk jugs, lettuce containers and pop bottles! http://tinyurl.com/mfyw5n4
Why Winter Sow?
13 Amazing Benefits of Winter Sowing to Grow (Almost) F-R-E-E Food For Your Family http://tinyurl.com/qdx6o7p
(WATCH VIDEO) Winter Sowing – 2nd Big Reveal! Growing Vegetable Seedlings from Seeds in the Snow http://tinyurl.com/n8l9z9u
WATCH MY WINTER SOWING VIDEOS
► My Winter Sowing Playlist: Winter Sowing | Growing Vegetable, Herb & Fruit Seedlings in the Snow or Cold Weather! http://tinyurl.com/ow4tp9r
Why Winter Sowing Method to grow your vegetable seedlings?
Winter Sowing method is an easy, cheap (almost free) method to grow your seedlings in free repurposed milk/pop/water/juice jugs outdoors in the snow or cold weather. You put them outdoors in winter and then in spring, the seedlings grow, they turn into gorgeous seedlings that will fill the jugs and you can then transplant them wherever you like!
Top 15 Benefits of Winter Sowing for YOU and Your Family:
1 ~ Save a ton of money not having to buy expensive organic or heirloom seedlings at $4-$6 each every season! Growing from seed is MUCH more economical than buying seedlings!
2 ~ No more hassles with grow lights hanging over your soil and seeds indoors all winter. No special equipment purchases like greenhouses, grow lights or heat mats are even needed!
3 ~ Big savings on electricity from leaving grow lights, heat mats and heat lamps on 16 hours a day every day.
4 ~ Save space in your home by not having your house taken over by seedlings for several months a year. Winter Sowing takes little space out in the yard. You can grow a ton of seedlings in a small number of jugs that will nestle nicely together in a small area. Good for balconies, patios and smaller yards too.
5 ~ Not having to ‘harden’ your seedlings (ie taking them indoors, outdoors, indoors, outdoors… for several weeks before leaving them outdoors for good. This is a HUGE time saver! And your plants will be much hardier and stronger than those grown indoors.
6 ~ Seedlings are actually stronger, bigger and healthier when the seeds germinate outdoors in the elements. They grow tremendous root systems in the Winter Sowing jugs!
7 ~ You KNOW the quality of your veggies will be perfect because YOU grew them (Quality Control) ie no toxic pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides were used to grow them…
8 ~ Your seeds will be protected from harsh rains and wash-aways, predatory birds and animals and insects, harsh winds…
9 ~ Makes winter more fun. It’s super exciting to get out of the house and go out in the snow to peek inside to see if they are growing yet. I confess some days I will go peek several times a day and I swear I see them growing in a day!
10 ~ Stops gardeners from going crazy in the winter with nothing to grow!
11 ~ No Waste. Getting to repurpose, reuse, recycle our precious earth’s resources by using empty plastic jugs for your mini-greenhouses.
12 ~ No Cold Stratification needed (this is the chilling or freezing of some seeds to soften them before they will germinate) It is not necessary at all with Winter Sowing. The method does it for you automatically!
13 ~ Time Saver for you! Winter sown seeds will germinate at the exact correct time for their variety or species. There’s no need to read the seed packets or count calendar days to try and schedule your planting for proper germination time. Mother Nature will figure that out for them. You just put them out and they’ll sprout when they’re ready!
14 ~ SIMPLICITY! Once you get your jugs prepped, seeds in good organic potting mix and jugs back outside, it’s pretty much ‘set it and forget it’ unless you’re in a warm or hot climate in which you may have to water a bit more. It’s a hands-off method which frees your time up for even more food growing and life enjoyment!
15 ~ Easy to Do. No special skills or experience is required. You can teach your kids to do it with you. Create confident young lifetime food gardeners!
Watch ALL the Winter Sowing how-to & big reveal videos here: Winter Sowing | Growing Vegetable, Herb & Fruit Seedlings in the Snow or Cold Weather! ❅❄ http://tinyurl.com/zoq83f7
Watch as I show you 2 different methods to grow basil seedlings in plastic jugs outdoors in winter or early spring for EARLY HARDENED transplants in late spring. You want tall big basil plants or tiny microgreen type basil plants. You can do both! No more indoor growing. No more grow lights! Winter Sowing Method. Grow large, hardened organic seedlings for next to nothing $! https://goo.gl/24sNxT
Quick Tip on How to Save Your Seedlings from Freezing in Late Spring Frost Using HOT WATER
Last night we almost hit freezing temperatures so I had to protect my 100’s of freshly grown seedlings! Many were still in their Winter Sowing mini-greenhouses and had been opened and were ready to transplant. I had to close them back up and protect them
See this great technique using hot water. It can be used even if you are not doing Winter Sowing. It can help warm them with small in-ground gardens, raised beds, container gardens, tray gardens etc
What techniques to YOU use to save your seedlings when it gets freaky cold in spring? Please share your ideas in the comments below. I’m sure you have some great ideas!
I birthed about $700 worth of organic veggie seedlings for (almost) FREE!
And I’m just getting started.
I have another 100 or so containers with all stages of seedlings in their growing process.
If you’ve been following my Mini-Greenhouse (Winter Sowing) gardening series, you know I grow my seedlings outdoors in the dead of winter… in 2+ feet in snow, minus 15 degrees F.
This week, the little mini-greenhouses are bursting open and the seedlings were ready to be released from their containers. In this video, I show you my first SEEDLING REVEAL video of 2015!
Pretty amazing.
I’ve grown cold weather crops such as arugula, lettuces, kale, spinach… Organic seedlings, grown in snow are ready for transplant today.
Watch the video below and make sure you go under the video in the comments section and let me know what you think! 🙂
