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RE: Video - Winter Sowing - Plant Now Place Containers Outside For Spring Germination
I planted carrots after the New Year, in the dead of winter this year. They sprouted a month later. Think the slugs ate all the tender tips though.
I have a hard time protecting outdoor-sown seedlings from hungry small animals that will eat them. Can't blame them. I usually try to grow more than enough to share, and keep sowing more every week until they remain. Kind of a waste of seeds, but I have to work with the ecosystem I am a part of.
My method uses containers (gallon size water jugs) so the seedlings are protected. When they sprout in the Spring I then move them into my small greenhouse and of course bring them in at night if temps go below freezing. It's a neat plant and forget method until they sprout.
Once planted in the garden, for greens I built a protective wooden box that I put netting over. There's a picture of it in my introductory post.