I did winter sow some tomato seeds. Folks on GW swear they catch up and then surpass indoor transplants. But I'm not willing to try all of my tomatoes that way. I participated in a tomato seed exchange with Canadians and have used many of those seeds for a winter sowing experiment since many are early, cold tolerant varieties. Most of the winter sown stuff are annual flowers.
I have plenty of tomato seeds left. If you want to try winter sowing tomatoes, email me your address and I can send you some seeds.
That pic of your flower bed is lovely. My flower beds get less attention now that I'm growing more veggies.
Wow! I didn’t know peppers could be overwintered. You just gave me another “pampering” project for next year. It makes sense as I know people that grow those ornamental type peppers year round.
Thanks for your kind offer of tomato seeds. I’m enlisting one of my friend’s husband who has a great growing set-up to start the tomatoes this year. He’s stocked up with Brandywine seed and some other heirlooms. I’ll probably pick up a couple of hybrids as seedlings. Like you, our warm season crops can’t go in until June 1st.
Thanks for the nice compliment on the flowers. They do have to kind of duke it out themselves because I’m also growing a lot more veggies than I used to. I tried sweet corn last year (Kandy Korn) and what a big disappointment that was. Then I slapped myself in the forehead and went ‘D’oh.’ Our backyard abuts a cornfield and I think my sweet corn cross-pollinated with the field corn. Live and learn. *Sigh*