You gotta move em! That's dang cold, Id have to put the shorts away and get some actually pants! Prolly keep that tank top tho!! (J/K)

:)

Thanks Doris. I'll get them into the hoophouse tomorrow. It's only 45 outside right now and I can't find my bear fur parka.

honey, you need to eat some MEAT!!! If we lived closer Id make you a nice pot of bean and sausage soup. Yummy!

I'm cooking a beef stew right now. I learned from my momma how to cook. I just can't deal with the cold. It numbs me to the core. Heart and all.

Oh my goodness, Doris! I could go for some of that soup! We have a blizzard watch for tonight and tomorrow morning!

I just came in from shoveling 4 inches of snow from my long driveway. That soup sounds wonderful. Now I need to make something before DH arrives home. Hmm, soup?

Snowing out here right now,and we are expecting two,TWO,blizzards,in the next couple of days,with temps as low as 15 BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Please send me your bear fur parka token,oh,never mind, i am not going any where!
We have a nice fire in the woodburner,good even heat,and my blankie,what else could i possiably want?oh ya, jammies,and a seed catalog,there,now i am all cozy.
Carol

I've got a fire going upstairs now. The one in the basement just wasn't cutting it. Going to be cold again tonight all around.

Maybe I'll sit down and get a few seeds sorted for this swap. Poor Neil is about to bust a gut. LOL.

Any perennials should be fine. I'm sure the dianthus and hocks will be fine--I have hollyhock seedlings under 6 inches of snow right now (they were direct-sows from last fall), and dianthus is very frost-tolerant.

Nicotiana? better baby that one!

Mmmm...woodstoves. They make winter almost nice--except for the part about going outside to get more firewood.
No blizzard here! Just some more snow.

Have had the woodburner on since September here, will need to feed it more in the next few days with 20MPH winds and 7 degrees...brrrrr
Gosh I haven't even started Wsing yet, lol

My wood is in the basement. I bring it in each week. I've got enough to keep the fires going through Saturday when the temperatures should rise back into the 50s and 30s, which is normal for this time of year.

It's 32 and cloudy out there today. Brrrr.

Token--leave them outside, don't baby them. You'll be amazed at what they can tolerate.
. It's "survival of the fittest" as far as I'm concerned. You may have seeds in your container that have not sprouted and bringing them inside will only make it worse. If those seeds have sprouted too early you probably won't want those plants anyway (they don't know what they're doing). WS is only for the hardiest plants--not coddiling(sp.) them.
Duane

Just checked the forecast again. They're raised our lowest temps to 21. I know these seedlings have survived 22 degrees. I'm going to leave them be. If I lose seedlings, I'll be looking for nicotiana trades in the spring.

Token
Leave them outside, in all probabilty all the nico seeds did NOT germinate, and there are still more in there to come when the weather really warms up. Winter sowing is not about babying our seeds or seedlings, be "tough", :) only the strong survive.

Alberta

Good call token. Use your time, enthusiasm and energy to prepare labels, or surf the net for more varieties of seed you didn't yet know you needed.

AMEN!

HA! After hosting this swap, I can't think of much that I still want or need AND be able to plant it all out in the spring. Combine that with my veggies and annuals that I want to try to sell in late April, I might need to hire some help. :)

I do have a couple friends that would be more than willing. It just means I have to raise enough plants for their yards too.

token - my dianthus seedlings were in temps as low as 18 and they were fine - yours would be too.

Carrie

It was 14 this morning when I got up. Not sure what the low temperature was since I didn't move until 8am. Just checked on everything outside. The hoophouse is holding steady at about 50 degrees. It's 25 right now. The ground inside is warm so the plants should be okay.

I didn't move any seedlings. The cupid's dart is holding strong and so are the hollyhocks. The alyssum that sprouted before Jan 1 isn't looking so good, but I still see lots of seeds in the container, so I'm not going to stress. I was too busy gathering firewood to worry about checking much else, but even the dianthus seem to be doing fine through the frozen condensation on the lids.

That settles it. I'm not going to worry any more until I start planting out. Now where's my seed box? I've got more seeds to sow.

The hoop house is 50, wow! Kewl! I mean, Warm!

Does it have a heater?

Nope. But it gets full sun all day. I also loaded the ground with dark thick moist leaf mulch. It holds heat pretty well and is protected from those nasty northern winds by the house and hill behind it. Not sure what it will be like tonight at 3am. I can guarantee you I won't be going outside to check either.

When it's in the 60s here, I have to open it or else the heat will cook my babies in there. I was worried about my roses and tea olives. No need to worry at all.

Ok, time to plant some more seeds this evening.

Token,
I am so glad to hear you left the WS containers alone and didn't move them. My daughter in law and are both newbies this winter and were worrying the other day about when to start our WS. We were discussing that perhaps, for our Zone 7, we should wait until much later in the winter, say early or mid February because of our strange "Southern" winters when one week is extreme cold and the next week 50-75 degrees. We also decided that we should not be worrying about this, it should be fun and we should just go for it. What makes it, makes it and what doesn't can be resown. I know WORRY is a given for newbies, but we'll be glad to have a couple of years of this under our belts so we can just relax! Whew...........