Very useful. Thanks for including the Latin name of the plants. Helps a lot. Too often people don’t realize that people in different areas/countries have different common names for the same plants, and different plants often have the same common name.

Very informative and fun to watch, too. I loved seeing your little seedlings almost as much as I love watching my in person seedlings grow.

so lucky to find this video! i’m a newbie at gardening & i’m also an hour away frow toronto. i recently started repurposing our recyclable plastic junks into pots like you too, and i’m definitely gonna be taking note of all your winter experiments ❤ very helpful content

Great video. Thanks for sharing. New subscriber to your channel.

Great video. Very helpful in deciding which containers to use and also identifying early seedlings. Thank you.

This is great!🌱

I tried to subscribe , but , KZfaq says I have too many subscriptions !!!! Keep making gardening videos and I'll keep watching !!!! Thank you very much !!!!

If you take a walk on garbage day you can find lots of water jugs in your neighbour’s recycling bins. The extra large ones are great for covering plants after you plant in case of frost just cut the bottom off.

Excellent video, from content to narration and music.

Been waiting for someone to make this video!!! I think I’ll try the yogurt containers w just clear tape on top since that’s what we have the most of on hand

Thanks for the info. I am saving containers now for my late December efforts. If the yogurt containers are working for you, you can reuse some clear plastic sheets (Saran wrap) and attach with a rubber band

I use yogurt containers too. They do fall over easily so I've gotten free trays with individual holes for each 6" pot from nurseries. They have tons of them and leave them for their customers to use when you buy lots of plants to carry. Just ask and they'll give you some for free. The tray fits the yogurt containers perfectly, will stabilize them and make transporting so much quicker.

Thank you for this lovely video. I learnt a lot of precious advices and I look forward looking your next one with great excitement!

Me and my wife drink a lot of tea and coffee and use distilled water that comes in those jugs so that our kettle last longer. I have around 30 of them now and will likely have 40 by winter sow time. I'm zone 6b in lower waterloo region and im starting a native nursery to give plants away to the sad gardens in my small town. I'm also seed collecting native oaks, hickories and beech as well as native shrubs. Im happy this video showed me how well water containers that i have will work well with native wild flowers. Thanks.

This is my first year trying the jugs method. Next year I am using jugs (I think) and also looking into using buckets with custom made domes (to eliminate transplanting).

Very helpful. I am new to winter sewing, so I appreciate your informative information.

Thank you so much for making this video, you saved me a ton of time in trying all these different methods.

I'm glad to have found your channel because I also live in Ontario, in Scarborough, specifically. My main purpose in gardening is to plant for pollinators so most of my ornamental plants and herbs are those preferred by our native pollinators. However, it's hard to find some of the native plants that grow in Ontario. If they are available, they are pricey like bloodroot, sweet Joe Pye Weed, blue cohost, etc. Like you, I use different kinds of containers that can be recycled which my daughter finds an "eyesore." But once my plants are transplanted and bloom, bees, butterflies, birds, dragonflies are their regular visitors. Modesty aside, our councilman sent me a certificate of appreciation for what he deemed a 'beautiful garden." For me, my better reward is the buzzing bees, the flitting butterflies and dragon flies and the foraging birds, not to mention the rabbit and the squirrel that nibble the leaves of my echinacea and the flowers of my sunflowers. It's ok they need to survive, too, for as long as they leave some for the pollinators. I am now your subscriber. Thank you for sharing very useful information about winter sowing of native plants in Ontario.

It's good to re-purpose these plastic containers 👍🏻 I do that as well. Greetings from Berlin 💕

Do ya'll have Chobani yogurt in Toronto? Thatbrand has excellent, thick clear lids. I often use them for " water saucers" to collect drainage under pots. Or to keep them stabilizeed, put inside the clear bins. The US milk jugs are thun walled & become brittle in TX sun here. I like using the rhicjer walled gallon White distilled vinegar bottles which I use as a fabric softener / stain cleaner for laundry. Also using 50/ 50 vinegar water spray to get rid of fungus gnats for inside sowing/ rooting cuttings that my nursery center suggested on fruit tree cuttings. Did not want to use chemicals on edible plants so Im trying this spray & baits / added sugar & dish soap.🤞

This was so helpful. I am going to try this, I never thought about pop bottles, great idea.

More people own a power drill. Using a 1/4" drill bit is very effective on juice, pop and vinegar bottles.

Chinese take out lids are clear and fit the yogurt containers well enough. Ask you local restaurant if you can post a sign asking people to save them for you in exchange for free plants. Oatmeal canister lids will cover some nursery pots. Also go to your local glass or window store and ask for scraps of plexiglass or even recycled windows could be set on top of cinder blocks. Thrift stores often have donated Rubbermaid totes.

This is such a great video! I've WS in the plastic bins, yogurt containers, salad containers, milk jugs, cool whip containers, soda bottles and kiwi containers. The worst germination were the plastic bins. The best germination was from the milk jugs, cool whip containers and salad containers. I'm in zone 5b, NW Illinois.

I also had the idea to use yogurt containers this year, luckily the brand i use already has clear lids ! I also like how easy it was to just snap the lid back on, instead of cutting bottles and taping which can be time consuming

Soldering iron makes short work of creating holes in plastic. Great for winter sowing and making planters out of anything.

Great experiment! I have been intending to try this. I have questions about the drainage. Salad containers have holes in the lid and bottom tray? Is the hole on the top of the jug sufficient for passive watering? Do you water these or just let rain/ snow enter?

where should i place my containers? does it need sunlight shining directly onto the containers? or can it be anywhere outside?

For the juice and pop bottles, could you prevent them from tipping over by putting gravel at the bottom under the soil?

If you do not have milk jugs in Canada, how is milk packaged there? Thanks for the ideas for winter sowing.

So when are you sowing the seeds and putting them outside ?

Wiper fluid has toxic chemicals! Why would you put plants in a wiper fluid bottle? Those poor butterfly’s and other helper insects. 😡👎🏼👎🏼