Gardening is a fun and rewarding hobby. However, buying seeds, and especially young plants, to get your garden started can be very expensive. Would you like to greatly reduce or even eliminate those costs?
Wintersown.org can help by teaching you how to use recycled containers and free seeds to give your garden a free head start.
What is Winter Sowing?
Winter sowing is planting seeds in semi-closed containers and placing them outside in the Winter. The seeds go through several freeze and thaw cycles and when it warms up sufficiently they germinate and start growing. You then plant them in your garden as you would purchased plants.
Where does the free part come in?
First, you don't need to buy fancy containers, you can make your own planters from recycled food or drink containers. Secondly, Windtersow.org offers
free seeds when you send them a self addressed stamped envelope. I know the seeds are not totally free since you have to pay for the stamps, but it's still a great deal compared to buying the seeds from a garden center or seed catalog.
Where do the free seeds come from?
The free seeds come from where all seeds originate silly -- from plants. That may be seem like an obvious and rude answer, but let me explain. Part of the fun of winter sowing is collecting and sharing the seeds from your mature plants. Many gardeners trade seeds, and Winter sowers can
donate seeds for the free seed program.
More Gardening Information:
If you need advice on what to do with all those seedlings from your winter sowing, you should check out these
very informative articles from our Gardening Guide, Marie Iannotti. Happy gardening!
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