How To Grow Sweet Williams From Seed | Winter Sowing Guide | Perennial Garden

So my sweet Williams are finished flowering and they have set a lot of seeds. So I'm going to show you how I collect them. And what I look for is that they're all brown on the top here. I'll come a little bit closer. So the top here it's all brown and the top actually started just to open up. That means it's they're all ripe. And notice I collect them in very dry weather because I don't want these seeds to start to rot or anything. So what I do now, I just tip them over and a bunch of new Sweet Williams here, really black ones, very easy to recognize here. So you will have a bunch of like hundreds, maybe 500 of this area here. So there's actually two ways you could sow them. One, you can winter sow them, which I'll show you in a minute. And the other way is you can actually also sow them here now in end summer, as soon as you collected the seeds, you can start to sow them. Because they are biennials, so that means they will create, like grow the green foliage the first year, and then already by next year, you'll have really beautiful flowers. So I'll add a few more. I will actually keep them in this coffee filter, the ones I'll keep for my winter sowing, always with the name on because in that way they get a lot of air and make sure they don't rot and then I'll go and show you in the greenhouse. So I've gone in the greenhouse just to show you how quickly these sweet Williams they have sprouted. This is a week ago and look at them just come up from the from the soil here they are done really well. So if you want to see a video about how we did these ones you can click here but if you also want to see a whole process on how we winter sow them another method then see here. For this we're using regular potting soil because it's the cheapest. We did add water beforehand that'll help our seeds not get lost and tossed around in the tray. Oh and if you want to see a great video on how to winter sow click the link here. Good job Lars. So here have my seeds of my Sweet Williams, Studendernelige and I'll sow them with everything dried flower bits here doesn't matter they will still germinate really nicely I'm just gonna they have really black ones here here's the main seed so I'm just gonna sprinkle it over here go and then I'm gonna add it just a handful of of soil on top this there we go and not to forget a name tag so remember what variety it is and then I'm gonna pop it right out in the our greenhouse and I'll keep the the surface here not dried out like moist with my spray over in the until spring is coming and then it will when it gets warmer it will start to germinate and once they're bigger the smaller plants we can plant them out in the garden now it's time to place these in the glass house they're going to need sunlight and they're going to need to be watered once every two weeks with a little sprayer. Just keep an eye on them. Once these seedlings start to sprout they'll be ready to plant out directly in the garden come springtime. So it has been three months and these sweet Williams have sprouted in the tray and as you can see they have really grown and have the second set of leaves. So I will take a group of this and repot in a bigger pot and then out in the garden. If you don't have the time or the space to repot you could also take them right from this tray out in the garden.