Learn to make your own “mini-greenhouse” in a bottle to start seedlings. Leave it outside till spring, when you’ll reap a dozen or more native milkweed seedlings to start in your garden. “If you grow it, they will come!”
Collect or save your bottles now.Want to get a jump on spring – and attract pollinators to your garden this summer? Sign up for our Winter Sowing Demonstration Clear 1-litre or 2-litre soda bottles or translucent half gallon milk bottles are recommended. We’ll be sharing some special seeds sourced right in our ecoregion.
Taught by UConn advanced master gardener Alice Ely.