Winter Sowing

I am about a month late in getting my winter sowing containers put together but I am going to attempt to do them anyway.

I have been saving various plastic containers to sow the seeds in so I am recycling a lot of plastic that would have ended up in the trash. I have collected cake containers, deli containers, plastic milk jugs, anything "found" that would allow sunlight through, close, and hold dirt.

I am still a garden newie but the value of winter sowing as I understand it allows the seeds to follow nature's normal process as if the seeds had been naturally planted where they fell from the original plant. The seeds are sown in the containers and set outdoors in a sunny spot and left until spring. Supposedly the seeds will germinate sooner and with a higher yield.

We will see.....