If you do a search (at the bottom of the main page)on SEED you'll find several threads with lots of good information.

so it seems the best thing to do is get them into a pot(gallon jug with weep holes should do) and place them outside for the winter?

OK I can do that I think

I would get them planted and outside as soon as possible - they do need a good deal of chilling. I usually have mine out by October, Good luck!

Robin Shadlow

zone 5 NE

Thanks Robin.

Do you plant yours in pots outside? Or do you plant them in the ground?

I doubt you'd get them in the ground now.

Plant them and burry them in the snow in a protected spot. Along the house or garage, someplace where they won't get kicked over or smushed. Forget about them until the weather starts warming. Can be long to germinate and lot of time in between each seed germinating. Last ones I did I had seeds sprout all summer and a few the following spring.

OK.. one last little detail question. I think I am going to just pot them up into gallon jugs with the tops cutr off and use a good seed starting soil. In burying? them in the snow, should I put them on the South side of the house or on the North side? (sun or shade)?

Thanks

Mark-

Don't think it matters. Mine are in on of the last places to thaw as I want them to stay frozen until its time. But I move them to a very warm sunny spot in late March.

Gallon containers may be a bit large. I found I had much better germination using the mum pots. I'm not sure why, if it was the rate they dry out, or the whether the smaller pots warm up quicker. Just an observation here in Nebraska.

Best of luck to you,

Robin
zone 5 NE

For the last several years I have been using window boxes, old hanging baskets, and larger pots cut in two. I separate the crosses with plastic edging to keep the seeds from mixing. I like this method much better than smaller, individual pots.

I place them on the south side of the house partially buried against my front porch under the eave. They are in full sun and easy to water if they start to dry since they are so close to the house. We are having a cold winter (no snow), so I am hoping for good germination. My seeds were planted in November and December.

Walter Moores

HI All

I planted most of my daylily and iris seeds in Oct and the spuria, daylily and even a few pots of iris have started germinated already, they are in an unheated greenhouse, because of the birds taking labels and scratching, so this works, too many pots this time for the cold frames.

Then planted some ones I received from friend in December so we will see.

Denise