Wintersowing 2013

February means it's time to break out the dirt, seeds and containers and do some planting!  For some of you, that may not sound like a big deal, but did I mention I live in Wisconsin?  Yes, planting - outside - in February in Wisconsin.

Interested?  Check out the Wintersown website if you want to learn more.

This year, so far I have 14 milk jugs and 2 trays of fiber pots sitting in the snow waiting to grow.  I ordered the seeds direct from Burpee and got some other Burpee seeds from Fleet Farm.

Here's what I've planted so far:

Vegetables
In the trays

• Sweet peppers - Red Majesty Hybrid, Big Dipper and California Wonder
• Cucumbers - Greencrisp burpless hybrid and Burpless beauty
• Tomatoes - Big Daddy Hybrid, Cherry Punch Hybrid, Polar Star and Polish Dwarf
• Jalepeno pepper

Flowers & plants
In the trays

• Mexican Hat
• Crackerjack Marigold
• Wildflower blend
• Catmint - blue heaven
• Coreopsis - Mardi Gras

In the jugs

• 2 jugs of Blue Fescue grass
• Rudbeckia - Moroccan Sun Mix
• Rudbeckia - Indian Summer
• Shirley Poppy
• Columbine - Harlequin mix
• Painted Daisy - giant mixed colors
• Coneflower blend
• Echinacea -Warm summer mix
• Aztec gold hybrid sunflower
• Chianti sunflower
• Vanilla Ice sunflower
• Autumn beauty mix sunflower
• Italian white sunflower

To be direct sown in the spring

• Heatwave blend lettuce
• Cherry belle radish
• Early perfection pea
• Burpee's tenderpod bush bean
• Gold mine bush bean

We'll see how it goes...I think I learned from last year's mistakes.