Winter Sowing Made Easy - With Live Demo

If you have ever wanted to grow varieties of flowers, vegetables or herbs, but couldn’t find them in the local nursery, you probably bought seeds. If they needed to be started in advance of the growing season, you would buy seed trays, seed starting mix, a heat mat, and grow lights, and then spend countless hours nurturing the seedlings. What if there were an easier, less stressful way?  Join Master Gardener Bea Helft to learn another method.

Winter sowing is the gardening method that requires translucent containers, most commonly 1 gallon milk or water jugs, common potting mix, water and your seeds, and then placing the filled containers outdoors in the dead of winter. This is a fun project for the whole family, so bring the kids. Start collecting your containers now!

Members of the Grow Food at Home Club will do a live demonstration of the techniques mentioned in the slide presentation.

Sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County.