Happy Spring

Now that it is officially spring, I started few seeds indoors. My daughter was so excited about starting seeds that she was constantly reminded me today till we did it. This year I have a strict numbers  to stick to for several reasons. Following is the plan and started some of then from seed. I have few old and new seeds so if germination is 100%, I am not going to plant all of them but pick few healthy ones to fit the small bed I have.

1 container baby carrots (may start another container if germination is good)
5 Sungold cherry tomatoes
5 Little prince eggplants
5 Mixed Sunflowers

Wintersowing technique: Marigolds, Zinnias

TODO ( may be for next weekend)
4 cucumbers
2 Basil
6 Okras
4 Ridge gourd

Petunias

Indoor germinated petunias

Its way too early for me to dream about petunias, but I am glad that I have few seedlings from indoor germination and bunch from winter sowing. Indoor germination rate was not great.The seedlings in the beginning are so tiny and it was hard to believe that they will even survive, but after seeing some true leaves, I am a bit confident something will come out soon. Winter sown seed germination is almost 100%. Looking at them it feels it may be little difficult to separate these densely germinated seedlings, but I am planning on transplanting them in chunks once I see some true leaves. I have my fingers crossed for the flowers. Last year I got one transplant container from a plant swap and it gave me so many beautiful flowers. Please check that container here .

wintersown petunias

Winter Sowing

Marigold Sprouts

Here are the containers from my first attempt with winter sowing. They germinated well.