I do but because of our heat I will germinate either in the house or in the garage where it is cooler but as soon as they poke their little heads up they go right out to the shade. You do have to be more aware of watering needs.....

Lynne

i fall-sowed last year with great results ... HOWEVER ... i did it in oct. so they would not germinate right away

i suppose it was just a more convenient time to basically do my winter-sowing ... fall is so gorgeous ... & it was just so easy to get everything in their jugs & positioned out to spend the winter ... i never looked at them again until spring!

i took some pix this a.m. of things i sowed last fall ... i will post them later ...

phyl

well i have not WS..yet!:)but fall sowing im doing both, direct sowing and containers.
i have direct sowed my holly hocks for years, but i got new seeds/plants im growing in containers till they get good growth then ill plant them out, im only doing this so i wont end up weeding them out lol ive made that mistake to many times.

here are the pix i took this a.m. ... cardinal flowers won't reseed for me ... too wet in the spring & they rot out ... but i have great success sowing in jugs in oct.

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direct sowing of cleome works; but they never seem to come up in quite the right spots! ... the seeds for these were put in jugs last oct.
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the sunflowers were oct. sown ... also mexican sunflowers; but i guess i forgot to take a picture ... they are gorgeous! ... bright, bright deep orange with very dark green leaves ... stunning ...

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phyl345 And they get enough start to be established before frost?

nope ... i do my jugs in oct. ... i suppose i consider *fall* sowing ADVANCE winter sowing ... the weather is so beautiful & i can do all the prep work outside ... see my post above earlier today (at 12:11) ... phyl

Hi, can I jump in on this thread? I too, am not sure what fall sowing is. Is it just an extention of summer sowing? If sowed in Aug. can they go in the ground before it freezes? Or is it too late for this year. Should I just wait it out 'till winter and sow? Thanks for helping. Sudzy

Sudzy: It depends on what it is. As long as it is perennial in your zone, and doesn't need cold strat, many things would germinate and get a start for fall plantout. Since most perennials and biennials don't bloom until at least their second year, many things can get a head start now, be planted out in fall, and overwinter for next year.

I sowed a jug of geum yesterday. If they sprout and grow some they'll be planted out in cool fall weather. If they don't sprout, I'll leave the jug as is all winter.

Karen

This may be helpfull for you.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Easiest Flowering Seeds to Start Right Now

phyl345, I have to ask..........what is the hydrangea in the photo with the cleome? Gorgeous combination. Great photos.

That's a helpful article, Samfawzy! Thank you for sharing that.
I sowed several containers of seeds about two weeks ago, and many of them (I think all except for the different types of Primrose) have sprouted.
I planted out Hollyhocks "Antwerp", Aster "Crego", and Osteospurmum. HH's seem to germinate through the whole growing season in the soil from seeds it drops after the first bloom time or seeds it's dropped from last year. So I was pretty confident they can get good growth before the cold hits.
I have some other things, a hibiscus, delphinium, foxglove, a scabiosa, and a sulphureus Cosmos, that I need to get in soon as well. I figure if I can get all of them in before the end of August, they have time to do something (the cool annuals) or settle in (perennials and biennials).
I've never Summer Sown these types of things before, so we'll see how it works out.

Linda

jill, thanks for the compliment ... the hydrangea tree in my picture is a pink diamond ... my *forest* of cleome (literally!) is situated between two hydrangea trees ... the other one is a pee gee & i love them both ...

they look for all the world to be identical trees UNTIL bloom time ... the pee gee STILL isn't in bloom ... i wish they both were pink diamonds ... phyl