It has been a really cold winter so far. I think the worst since we’ve moved here in 2019. In a previous post, I mentioned that they were predicting we’d have a milder and drier winter in the southeast this year. They were wrong. We had substantial snow last week, the first since we’ve moved here. And these are the temperatures for the next 5 days.
This is NOT mild! We’ve had many nights were temperatures were low to mid 20’s, and that is colder than average for us. It looks like we’ll be getting a second snow for this season on Tuesday. Since we have to deal with extreme heat and humidity in the south, the least we could have is a mild winter where lows don’t get below 32. I don’t think that’s too much to ask. 😬
Being the weather has been so much colder than expected, I’ve gotten a little behind with some of my seed-sowing and garden prep. I didn’t sow any seeds in December. I just wasn’t in a gardening mood. I should have sown my lisianthus last month, but January will just have to do. Most of the seedlings and plants I started from August through November are doing well despite the frigid temperatures.
Here’s what I sowed yesterday, January 17th. I won’t be sowing any other seeds for January.
- Chinese Forget-Me-Nots – Blue Showers
- Clarkia – Elegant Salmon (because the ones sown in October and transplanted in November are not looking so great)
- Dusty Miller – Candicans
- Larkspur – QIS Carmine
- Lisianthus – Arena 3 Apricot / Corellia Sugoi 3 Deep Pink / Doublini White / Mariachi Pure White / Voyage 2 First Love, Voyage 2 Light Apricot
- Saponaria – Soapwort
Everything except the soapwort is under grow lights in my grow room. I have the soapwort in the greenhouse for now.
I sowed a bunch of seeds in each container for the clarkia, larkspur, dusty miller, and Chinese Forget-Me-Nots. Once they’ve germinated well, I’ll pot those up into 6-cell deep packs. The lisianthus only has 2-4 seeds per cell in their own containers with humidity domes. I need about 25 of each variety, so I can thin them once they germinate.
What you you sowing this month?
