Like many of you, my area hasn't gotten too cold yet so I'm barely counting it as winter. I'm on the Olympic Peninsula. I'm a newbie to gardening and I got some Rocky Mountain Columbine seeds, and I know they require cold to germinate. Starting them indoors sounds like a lot of work, do you think it's too late in the year for me to just sow them directly into the ground outside?
We haven't had a hard freeze yet, it does frost overnight and it snowed exactly once before it all melted. The ground is workable...but I've never really started seeds before. Has anyone tried this?
My yard is on a hill that's very gravelly also, so even though we get buckets of rain constantly it all drains away very quickly.
