Welcome Mary. Try looking at the FAQ on this page and look for your zone. You will finds lots of good information there. And I am sure the wonderful people on this site will be happy to share their experiences with you. Happy WSing!

Mary, it's mild here too and we don't have your Spring heat. I can winter sow just about anything anyone else can winter sow...but due to space constraints, I don't grow many annuals so don't have much sowing experience with those. For those seeds requiring a chill before they germinate, your nights in the 30's and 40's will do just fine...I assume you have a string of those temps.

By the way, it snowed beautifully yesterday, big fluffy snowman-building (and we did) gorgeous flakes - some years we get none. Tonight, it's 53F and raining horizontally (60 mph gusts right off the ocean )