Annual flowers that can and should be sown in the fall before winter: a list of 22 plants

To ease your spring worries and enjoy the first flowering immediately upon arrival at the dacha next year, you can sow some of the annual flowers before winter this fall. Thanks to such sowing, you will get not only earlier shoots, but also stronger plants, because the seeds will undergo natural stratification, so to speak, hardening.

Well, then you will be presented with a list of annuals suitable for winter sowing, as well as the timing and rules for planting them in the fall.

How and when (in what time frame) to carry out winter sowing of annuals

The main thing when sowing in winter is to choose the right timing. Namely start sowing annuals can only be in the already slightly frozen ground, in other words,after the first frost... In this case, the temperature should systematically decrease (steady cooling). Therefore, do not rush to sow in winter, otherwise, if the weather is warm, the seeds will germinate and die in winter.

Let's say that you are a resident of the Middle Lane, then you will need to wait at least mid-October, and even better - November.

If autumn turns out to be warm, then you will have to hope only for the arrival of a stable cooling.

And remember that the thaw is your main enemy!

General rules for sowing annual flowers before winter:

• The place for sowing is individual, depending on the requirements of a particular plant (written in the instructions on the package). But, usually an illuminated area is required.
• Itselfthe seedbed should be prepared in 3-4 weeks before the actual event, when it is still warm and the land is easy to cultivate. Namely, you need to dig up a shovel (25 cm) onto a bayonet and add humus or compost (1 bucket per 1 square meter).
• Do not forgetprepare the formula in advance (for example, from garden soil, sand and peat, or you can just buy ready-made soil in a garden store) and put it in a warm and dry placeso that after sowing you can sprinkle it on the seeds.

It is obvious that sprinkling with frozen earth is not a good idea.

• Sow only dry seedsso you don't need any seed soaking.
• Sowing depth standard - 1.5-3 cm, but when you prepare the grooves in advance, then they should be done a little deeper.

Rule! Small seeds are planted closer to the surface, large ones - deeper.

• Sowing before winter is necessary 1.5-2 times thicker than with spring sowing(the weakest will perish and not rise).

What annual flowers are suitable for winter sowing: top 22 most beautiful and unusual

In alphabet order:

• Alyssum sea (sea lobularia).

• Aster annual.

• Amaranth.

• Marigolds (tagetes).

• Cornflower.

• Delphinium is annual.

• Gaillardia.

• Gypsophila.

• Godezia.

• Iberis is umbrella.

• Calendula.

• Cleoma (a splash of champagne).

• Kosmeya.

• Lavatera.

• Linen.

• Self-seeding poppy.

• Mattiola is one year old.

• Nasturtium.

• Nigella (nigella).

• Rudbeckia.

• Phlox Drummond.

• Eschsholzia.