I wintersowed thirty and am starting the spring sowing now- another 10 containers. The only ones that didn't germinate are Monarda bergamo, cerinthe, and salvia coral nymph.

I also have about 20 pots of dahlias and cannas out in the yard to get them started. I have been doing this for three years now but this year I am feeling kind of strange- like people think I need to get a life! It's nice to come here and read the posts of crazy people like me! LOL!

Salvia coral nymph needs warm weather to germinate.

Becky

I WS 86 containers this year, and have germination in 56 of them so far, which is about 65%. Had to pull out the calculator, LOL!

My Blackberry Lily germinated a couple of weeks ago, and was planted out this week. My Salvia 'Lady in Red' has a sprout in it, but not the 'Coral Nymph'. Here is what I am still waiting on:

Agastache 'Apache Sunset'
Euphorbia 'Rubra'
Geum 'Blazing Sunset' (2 containers, 2 different seed sources planted diff. dates)
Lychnis 'Lumina Bronzeleaf Red' (2nd container, first one croaked)
Helenium 'Moorheim Beauty'
Rudbeckia 'Irish Eyes' (2 containers, sowed on separate dates)
Eschscholzia californica 'Golden Poppy'
Alternanthera 'Purple Knight'
Calendula 'Zeolights' (had one sprout that died, waiting to see if any more germinate)
Dichondra 'Silver Falls'
Gerbera daisy (red)
Petunia 'Flambe Salmon' (from Valueseeds, the 'Prism Sunshine also from them, germ. over a month ago)
Portulaca 'Sundial Creme' and 'Sundial Mango'
Salvia 'Coral Nymph'
Snapdragon 'Black Prince'
Basil (Red, all others have germ.)
Perilla, Red
Chives 'Garlic' and regular
Parsley (My payback for telling you guys it was an easy germinator last year, LOL!)
Rosemary
Tomato, Azoychka'
Tomato, Mini Bush Yellow Cherry
Tomato, Moskvich
Tomato, Roma
Tomato, Stupice
Tomato, Sungold

Bonnie

I winter-sowed 147 containers so far. 20 yogurt cups were sown on Sunday, some warm weather stuff like Zinnias and Basil, and those haven't sprouted yet. Sproutage has slowed way down in the other containers this week, since it's been much cooler with more clouds & rain than sun.

Of the 127 that were sown earlier, 96 have sprouted so far. That's 76%. And more are gonna sprout! I could see a little root coming out of an Aristolochia seed, so those will be popping up. I'd be very happy with 93%! :)

Out of 227 jugs I am still waiting on 52 of them to germinate so that isn't all that made. Some of the ones I am waiting for are

astilbes 3 colors
salvias lady in red and coral and red
columbine barlow mix and a mix one
gaillardia bergundy and oranges and lemons
hibiscus pink
cardinal climber
carnation king of the blacks
pansy
verbena romance mix
torenia
dusty miller
several cannas
bleeding hearts pink and white
daylily mix
impatiens mix
tomatoes san marzano plum, green zebra, Aunt rubys german greensuper sweet 100/black cherry, deliocious
clemetis
green bell pepper
hot pepper
red bell pepper
yellow bell pepper
petunia red vein, sugar daddy,
gerbera daisy pink, red, yellow, and orange
marigold white, french marigold,
angelic gigas
cleome cherry and purple
cosmos daydream
lantana mrs huff, new gold, yellow, yellow and pink.

But thats ok it gives me time to plant the others out.

Paula

Many of the flowers are hos so for example bachelor button were 2 for 2 successfull, but that may account for 2-3 packs of seeds. Where maters and peppers are mostly single or double sowed seeds.

Bachelor Button 2/2
Basil 4/4
Beets 5/5
Black Eyed Susan 0/9
Broccoli 17/17
Butterfly Weed 2/5
Cat Nip 5/5
Delphanium 11/20
Echinacea 13/15
Gaildallia 18/20
Larkspur 13/13
Lettuce 10/10
Pepper 0/24
Snaps 5/5
Sunflower Hallo 5/9
Sunflower Mamouth 4/9
Salvia Red 10/10
Spinach 6/6
Tomato 30/50
Torch Tithonia 0/11

zinnia 2 large trays many sprouts 2/2

Not really keeping count Bakemom, but I know it has been an excellent year so far, probably the best!

Out of 87 containers still waiting on 37 but the majority were sown from April 11 on.

Took a peak at your later post...Congrats on the Blackberry Lily!! I received 2 of these as bonuses in trades last fall, but was a little reserved to plant them....heard they were pretty wild ones! My Nicotiana alata (from my garden) germinated today from a sowing on April 23rd. Hope you get some soon,

Vera

My results this year have not been so hot, so far. Of 51 containers sown, only 16 have germinated (31%). I've already dumped 4 containers, and waiting for 31 more to sprout.

Granted, I did use a good bit of "older" seeds this year - I've had mixed results with these - and I didn't start the bulk of my sowing until March 1. I expect that in the next couple of weeks, I'll be seeing green in those 31 waiting containers. I sure hope so.

On the other hand, seeds that didn't do anything for me in previous years are sprouting this year. Go figure.

So far, the sprouted ones are:

Dianthus 'Siberian Blues'
Yarrow 'Cassis'
Poppy 'Red Scallop' (Drama Queen?)
Bachelor Buttons 'Black Ball', mixed
Snapdragon 'Tequila Sunrise'
Petunia 'Laura Bush' (2 containers)
Alyssum 'Snow Crystals'
California Poppy, various
Coneflower 'Baby White Swan'
Bell Pepper 'Mohawk'
Chili Pepper 'Tepin'
Gomphrena 'Strawberry Fields'
Green Cat Grass
Amaranthus 'Autumn Palette'
Balsam 'Blackberry Trifle', 'Peppermint Twist'

My worst germinators are seeds from T&M/Valueseeds. Wouldn't you know that I have a ton of seeds from them ...

PV

I sowed 93 containers so far. I have 19 that haven't germinated. That's almost 80% germination. This includes 8 daylily seeds from 2006 that I did not have high hopes for, 2 Petunias and 2 Snapdragons just sown 9 or 10 days ago. The 7 I'm really waiting for are 2 daylilies, 2 types of Ligularia, Pennisetum, Yarrow, and Northern Sea Oats.

Pat

I went insane and sowed over 600 containers,am planing on doing more if this crazy cool weather will leave me alone.I have about 30 just sowed and about 20 that was sowed earlier but hopefully they will sprout.I have started planting out but had also 2 nights real close to freezing so will wait another week.
I also need a crew.
moonphase

So far the only one that has not germinated are the mums, as far as I know.
I found 3 containers that had no germination and I didn't have a number or code on the container, I think I may have not sown seed in those.

I have sowed 52 containers, I belive 47 of them are tomatos all but the Lucky Cross sprouted. Guess it was not so lucky. Every thing else is up but one poppy. Sure it was some old seed that was used on the poppy.
I am still sowing away here. This weekend will do Cosmos, Zinnas and Marigolds.

Drove by fields and fields of rows of peppers, eggplants and tomatos planted out in comercial fields. They had either, remay covering them, row covers or black plasic down to heat the soil. So figure could get some of mine out under hot caps ( milk jugs).

ML

I'm at around 90-92% germination.

Here are some pics of my wintersown containers if anyone is interested.

The pics range from around April 1, through today.

Here is a link that might be useful: My wintersown containers

My worst seeds were seeds from Artistic Gardens' sample packets. Of around 30 packets, only about 1/2 grew for me...under lights OR WS'd.

The Fedco seeds did great...all but Schizanthus grew for the most part, so far. The Baker Creek seeds also did well, as did the 10 cent packets from Rite Aid.

Mark-

Good results in your WS containers, zengeos!

I'm only at about 10% so far, but it is still very early here. Very optomistic and tickled pink with the results so far :)
Some of the sprouts I do have are from seed that was 10 years old!