07/31/2026
The best time to sow native wildflower seed is in the fall! 🍂 Now is the time to start planning and prepping your area. 🌾
It’s time to start measuring your plots or areas where you plan to sow wildflower mixes in the ground. You’re tucking these tiny seeds into cooling soil, trusting they’ll sit quiet all winter and come alive in spring. It’s patience and faith, wrapped up in a handful of seed but there are some helpful steps that you can follow to make sure your native wildflower seed successfully comes up the next season!
Here’s why fall works: most native perennial wildflowers need a cold, moist winter (called cold stratification) before they’ll germinate. Nature’s been doing this for thousands of years… seeds drop in fall, freeze and thaw through winter, wake up right on schedule in spring.
Quick steps to get it right:
🌤️ Pick a spot with 6+ hours of sun
🌱 Clear the ground down to bare soil. This is the step people skip, and it’s the one that matters most. Your newly growing seed can’t compete with w**ds. Removing existing w**ds is one of the most important steps in establishing a successful native planting. Native grasses and wildflowers generally establish more slowly than annual w**ds, so the cleaner the seedbed, the better your results. In fact it may take several sessions of w**d removal before planting to ensure success.
⚖️ Measure your seed by square footage (a little goes a long way). Look at your seed packet to see how much area your seed will cover.
🤲 Broadcast by hand or with a hand seeder, in two directions so you don’t miss spots. A drill works also if you have that available.
👣 Walk it in or lightly rake for good seed-to-soil contact. If the seed doesn’t make contact with the soil, it won’t come up.
❄️ Then let winter do its thing!
Come spring, as you continue to manage w**d control, you’ll be on your way to a patch of your own wildflowers buzzing with pollinators and grown from seed you sowed with your own hands.
We are going to share a lot of information about how to manage w**ds successfully, so follow along!
🌼 Ready to start your own patch? Our wildflower mixes are made for exactly this. Link in comments.
