Winter Sowing

Sowing seeds during winter is truly the easiest way to start seeds if you want to let Nature guide the germination.

Trudi Davidoff has organized a systematic way to successful germinate in winter. She posted to GardenWeb for a number of years and then consolidated all her info on her own webpage.

http://wintersown.org/

We don't have a long enough season to germinate some hot weather crops such as tomatoes and squashes this way, but there are zillions of other seeds that work easily this way as long as you keep the seeds safe from drying out.

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/wtrsow/