It is early, but I am planning to WS Canterbury Bells,
Callirhoe,Phlox divaricata, Delphiniums, Poppies,
Lupins, Hollyhocks.
Sweet William, ---I can' remember without going through my seed box.
Caroline

I know it's to early to do any wintersowing, but I'm always interested in seeing what everyone else has planned to do. I did do CB last year and they did great, I've also done lupins and hollyhocks before. That reminds me, I need more lupins. Marg

I would like to try winter sowing. Is there some guidelines that are out there?

Wintersowing.org is a great site. After you read that come back here and just ask whatever questions you have. There are a lot of people on the Far North forum, and here, that helped me when I started. Marg

I've done alyssum, Marg - around here i don't winter sow them, but use the winter sowing technique in April (last year, i believe, it was winter in April!). They've usually done quite well.

Thanks Marcia. I'll give that a try.

I'll be doing lots of Zinnias, petunias, sweet william and lupins because my gardens are full of perennials. The last couple of years I have been concentrating on veggies: squash, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, lots of herbs and green onions and a number of hot and super hot peppers. Last year was a disaster because I took a short July vacation but fell ill and was not back until September. All my produce had ripened, fallen on the ground, or were over-ripe (hard zucchini, tomatoes, okras, beans) and had to be discarded. I did use some for seed saving. So I am looking forward to this year.

I've never done peppers before. Can you also do sweet peppers that way? I'm trading my hot pepper seeds because DH decided he didn't want them any more. I did do lettuce that way before and it was really good. Mostly I'll be doing flowers tho. Marg

Peppers are very slow to grow so I would not winter sow them here in zone 3. I start them under lights indoors.
Same with tomatoes.

This winter has been so long and snowy and cold that i had no desire to do any winter sowing. Finally i did a few containers last week - foxglove, perennial aster (an experiment with saved seeds), some lupines i'd like to keep going (yellow, blue and white), some dianthus for my white garden, a pretty hollyhock, rudbeckia, and more saponaria. That will be it until i start to spring sow annuals. This year, that could be May. Or June! LOL