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Winter Sowing Garden Seeds with Clear Shoe Boxes: An Alternative to Milk Jugs

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Winter Sowing Garden Seeds with Clear Shoe Boxes: An Alternative to Milk Jugs

Winter sowing is a modified way to direct seed outdoors when it is too cold out for seeds to germinate. Milk jugs and other containers, you fill with soil, are best used when the ground is frozen or when there is snow on the ground. An alternative method, once the ground can be worked, is a simple shoe box method. It is like using a cloche.  This method is used for cool weather crops, crops that can take a frost or a freeze. Seeds planted directly in soil, without a cover, can sit for weeks or months before germinating when soil...

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