I still have quite a bit to plant out, including some butterfly bush seedlings that are still infants! Not all my perennials have true leaves yet, and many annuals/veggies/herbs are still developing. We had a frost Monday night and many of my tomato seedlings in jugs died. I wasn't expecting that! I thought the jug would be enough protection. Those must be started again. So, rejoice that you will enjoying a nice cigar and glass of bourbon while the rest of us are still digging! If you don't enjoy cigars and bourbon, well...I guess it's time to start learning to.

LOTS left to plant out but we are having a real spring this year, cool with regular rain, so I am feeling like I have time. I am trying to prepare beds (get all the weeds and any unwanted volunteers out) and then plant them full right away, before anything can sneak in! I've also been digging up large patches of perennial beds that have been over run with grass/clover/whatever, combing through to get every "bad" root out and replanting the dug up perennials. There is lots of space around them at that point and I have begun planting annuals in the spaces.

Lucky you! I still have lots and lots to plant, care to lend a hand? ;)

Lots left here to plant out once I find a place for them -- verbascum, salvia, bachelor buttons, rudbeckia (way too much) among others.

I'm a little gun shy after planting out 25 tomatoes then having to rush around trying to cover last Sunday when frost threatened (then never materialized). Still, it's been cold and rainy and/or really windy here since Sunday.

In my neck of the woods, it's possible to get frosts clear out to the middle of June! Needless to say I haven't planted out much either. And I'm like Nan-6161, I'm trying to get a bunch of flower/shrub borders back under control. I'm weeding and putting down bark dust. I'm hoping to do some planting this weekend though.

I got a lot done on Mother's Day, but there's still a lot left to plant out. My basil is still in the pan (thank goodness since we had that frost!), also lobelia, rudbeckia, salvia, 2 more 4 o'clocks, oregano, datura, petunias, and all my peppers.

I have not even sowed any basil yet :) or zinnia or half the castor beans ws'ers sent me (some are done)

Almost all is out. I have tomatoes, some squash, butterfly bush and maybe a pot of coneflower left (they were small)

I am happy to have the rain the last few days!

Karen

A friend came and helped me plant out last weekend and we made a good start. The south foundation has been cleared of weeds and is ready for some sun lovers + mulch to keep the weeds in check until the perennials get established.
I still have lots of jugs with no sprouts lined up against the side of the breezeway that's always shaded. I'm too stubborn to give up on them just yet. Out of 66 new-to-me perennials, less than a handful have failed to germinate. I WS 30 jugs of various types of columbine and have sprouts in more than half those jugs.
My WS tomatoes are doing great. I brought them inside the garage when frost threatened and will keep them inside until the nighttime temps warm up again. My hydrangeas all got frost zapped and I'm really disappointed about those. I was SO looking forward to them blooming this year. Strategy for next May 10, 11, & 12 is to cover them with shear panel curtains attached with clothespins and see if that's enough to protect them but still let in light and rain.
I've got plenty of volunteers happy to take my excess seedlings and have started carting quart pots to work with me to give all my cheerleaders who didn't think I was insane to try winter sowing plus Val who gave me the worm poop. Lemme tell ya, I've got some AMAZING seedlings after bottom watering with a weak solution of seaweed extract and worm poop tea. I'm considering marketing it under the name SEWPTea. Think I should apply for a patent?

Token, I am amazed and impressed! You had so much. I still have many to plant out, but am not feeling stressed about it. They seem happy enough in their containers. I am waiting for a fence to be installed before I plant all of my new perennial beds around my new potager. I am going to need to work up the willingness to give some things away, too. I need to come to terms with the fact that my .1 acre lot (yes, there is a decimal in front of that 1!) is not going to play host to thousands of verbascum and oriental poppies. LOL. Wish someone here lived close enough to give them to! Everyone who isn't a serious gardener seems to turn their noses up at something that won't bloom two seconds from now.

Way to go, Token!

Lisa

Token, where do you get the energy? My perennial garden is pretty full after the lupines, hollyhocks, asclepius and painted daises went in. And there are still many things looking for permanent homes, but I don't feel like starting a new bed.

I potted up eight more painted daises today and will try to give them away, but Lisa is right about the impatience of many. They won't want something that won't bloom till next year.

Caryl

Well I do a little each day. If I go to work at 8, I plant a couple things before work, a few things after. When I have a day off, I spend the morning planting and the afternoon watering it all in. I just worked around my schedule.

In all honesty though, I did toss a few containers. I'd say at least 100. I either decided I didn't have to have that plant (rare cases) or I didn't get germination. The two liter bottles worked a lot better than the hoophouse. I saved 50 for next year. When they're full, I'll stop sowing. I plan to direct sow most of my seeds this year. Perennials will be done as the seeds ripen, just like in nature. Annuals will be sown next spring. My yard is getting full. I need to scale it down a bit.

Token you are such a busy bee! Your gardens are going to be bursting with plants. I've only planted out one container from 2010 so far - Alyssum 'Carpet of Snow' (out of 84 containers total this year). There are still a few 2009 and 2008 WS plants in the nursery but I repotted some of those.

I've been busy gardening though - many mature perennials are needing to be moved or divided. Redesigning a little here and there and trying to figure out spots to put the WS'n plants. Ma Nature has done a lot of WSing and there's are lots of little seedlings in the gardens.

Terrene, that's what I want to get to, eventually. I want to spend time dividing and spreading my existing plants around. I know there will be new seeds I find I just have to grow next year. So I'm not going to give up wintersowing completely, but after two years of going nuts, I'm scaling way back. I'm out of soil. I can't go cutting down trees again.

I'm still sowing. Got 3 containers of dill/fennel out this weekend, but that's it. I am SO behind this year! But I know I'm really not "too late," which is a good thing.

I ain't throwing the towel in yet! I have more seeds to stick in jugs - I don't care if the seasoning is off, they seem to germinate so much better using this method.

I am holding off long as I can before getting the big un's either in the ground or in separate pots because that is when trouble sets in for me.

Nothing serious going in the veggie garden here till around June 1. We have had torrential rains the past couple of days which followed the frosty mornings. A fellow gardenweber who is in the biz told me it was best to hold off planting my stuff till then and since it most likely will take me that long to get the garden beds ready, it looks like I am going to be once again starting my garden a wee bit tardy. Long as that blight stays away . . .

Oh, I still have seeds left. I still haven't sown 6 varieties of salvia that were sent to me in the swap. I've got pepper seeds to sow soon. And there's always something else I see at the store that I need. I very seriously considered a few packs of zinnias today, but I think I might order them online to get more seeds for the money.