Not sure what you mean by 'area', zone 5. Yep! I am enjoying my first year at wintersowing. Can't wait to see the first sprouts.

Southwestern Michigan, Grand Rapids I too am looking forward to seeing some growth. Would love to be rid of snow period.

I live up in Traverse City and didn't see sprouts 'til March last year, we have about another month to go!!
It's hard when you hear all the other zone 5ers go on and on about their sprouts and what's coming up and where they're gonna put it all and how NICE AND GREENeverything looks--oh I'm sorry, that was a little touch of zone envy!
-B

I'm near TC as well. This is my first year WSing, so it's good to know that March is when to start looking!

hee hee! But I only have 7 jugs with sprouts in them in zone 5! Wow, am I bad or what? Sorry Brandy, I'm kinda a brat sometimes (middle child syndrome). My zone five is at a much higher altitude than some so the sun is a bit more intense which usually means quicker sprouts than most.

Go ahead and rub it in gardenluv-I'll think of you this summer when I'm on the beach :-)

Our zone 5 should say "zone 5+3ft of snow"!!
-B

Is it an ocean beach? I love the ocean. We live less than an hour away from Lake Tahoe so we spend quite a bit of time at that beach during the summer.....but I would love to live by an ocean! There's nothing quite like hearing the waves break on the shore.....

I'm in Zone 5 Chesterton, IN. Just planted my first batch yesterday. I think I ended up planting some that should have waited, but oh well. This is my second year and I'm organized enough this year to make a list of what I'm WS so I can note what works. Have tons of seeds from our Master Garden garden show, so on to the planting....My children helped me video my garden last year. Hope you enjoy.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden

Hey Brandy, at least for today we can say "zone 5+3ft of snow and sunshine with some blue sky" Haven't been able to say that for the last 10 days. Forgot what sunlight looked like.