I was very lucky that when hubby went to the feed store to buy dog food he spotted 3, 40lb bags of potting mix and snagged them for me. He inquired if they had more and said they have a full pallet in stock. I did not stock up on potting mix this year like I did last....too much going on. So I REALLY got lucky.

Today i am going to prep my jugs for Solstice, since i will have to sow my seeds when I get home from work. For remembrance I am going to sow white cone flower for my dear MIL who passed in March, hubby picked them. I am waiting to see what I get from the swap to decide on the others.

I am ready for inter Sowing to begin!!!!!!!!!

I am so thankful for this forum and Trudi! Who would have thought a milk jug, dirt and seeds would have the power to make me who hates winter look forward to it, lol.

Trudi, Despot, funny even on a morning like this one :)

I'm not counting down this morning, I'm sucking up. Water. Basement.

Well yesterday I made a big pot of homemade hot chocolate. (Erica_ct posted something about hot chocolate and I have been wanting some since) Right now I am still sipping on my coffee. I finally got my list of what all I am for sure growing. I will make it happen even if I have to borrow a tiller and break new ground for all of the new plants.

I have it around 80 types of plants. So really I cut my list quite a bit. Though I will admit it is still longer than what I feel it should be.

For my winter solstice sow shrub part it is for sure going to be Euonymus Americanus. I may use that as the "leap of faith also" cause some resources say it needs 3 seasons to germinate and some say it only needs 2 seasons. Who knows!!
Rememberance is still in debate. The tree will be Asimina triloba.

When I was a little girl my Mom used to make cocoa with Drostes. She had a cocoa set from with a dragon on the side--it's tail was the handle.

Morz--ughh. I'm so sorry. We had three floods downstairs this year, I just replaced the cellar door so I'm crossing my fingers I won't be washing a mountain of rag towels at the end of the day. The Despot is one street north of me. At night I can here bleep-bleep-bleep as the forklifts are doing the loading work ;-(

As a newbie here, I'm certainly counting down the days!
I have all my seeds (going to order some more after the holidays!) and materials ready except I need more containers. I only have two: a lemonade jug and a plastic container. My friend visited yesterday and I had him poke holes in the containers for me. I'm still trying to decide what to plant for the four values.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

morz8 - I feel your pain. They're calling for 2 inches of rain today and possibly another 2 inches overnight. If we get that much there'll be water in my cellar too. I actually have patio bricks where it pools first so the cats can get to their boxes with dry feet & likewise I can get to the washing machine/dryer.

I posted my solstice sowing seeds over on another thread. I've got 60 or more milk jugs prepped and ready to use, the growers mix is in the kitchen, labels are printed/sorted in alphabetical order & seeds that need cold stratification are lined up right after the solstice seeds. This will be my second year to winter sow and I'm every bit as eager & excited about it as I was last year only this time I KNOW it works.

In case I haven't said it before, thanks Trudi!!!

We had a major water problem earlier this month. I called my landlord about it when I heard the pipe bust. It took him two weeks to get someone out. It happened to be my neighbors pipe that busted. While the plumber was here fixing it another pipe busted on my side (I am in a duplex), that water ran for 4 hours. I haven't got the water bill yet, but I dread it. Needless to say anything over my normal amount I WILL deduct out of my rent. That is ridiculous waiting 2 weeks to fix a leak!!

Oh I forgot about the seeds I already sowed, and the ones in my fridge and freezer. So we are looking at around 100. That is crazy for me for where I live!! Crazy!! Only like maybe 5 have 2 types of the same genus!! So if I cut duplicate genus I guess it could knock another 5 out, ugh.

Gardenweed, I think we were averaging about 1" rain an hour beginning yesterday morning. OK, maybe that's a bit exaggerated, but our 60 Mph wind was not. There is no exterior door to my basement, but I will get some water coming in with heaviest rain, high tide combined with strong wind, usually just once a year or so. Of course, right into the corner where my heat pump back up furnace and hot water tank are.

About two minutes after I posted earlier, we lost power. That meant, no shop vac, no little ornamental garden pond pump that sucks water into my basement sink at only 1/8" deep before it quits and needs more depth. I was completely running out of things I could do to kill time without electricity and only battery lantern light.

I think the whole state is on flood watch, and a few counties including mine are under the stronger flood warning. Life in the PNW, not like it's an inconvenience we've never had :)

My yard is already a lake, we have a high water table where I live and right now it's pretty bad out there. Luckily we have a french drain and water pump in our basement but it doesn't mean that I won't be washing out towels tomorrow, depending on whether or not it rains all night. It could be worse, it could be snow!

I'm a newbie too, I need more containers and I'm going to wait until February. (very hard) I loved the accomplished feeling from what I've WS so far.