Four hours of work and I have my hugelkultur bed and 3 fence plots ready for planting. Our soil is heavy clay and even more so for the raised beds as I just took some top soil from a new building site. I mixed in organic store bought
compost to lighten it a little ( a very little in my opinion) as our compost won't be ready for a few more months.
The other garden beds will be clay, not so heavy as that in the back yard. They were just tree rings with mulch. I don't think there should be any issues with the seeds floating away. We don't get very much rain at all and they should be pretty well stuck where they get planted.
I guess I'm mainly concerned with throwing my $200 seed investment down the drain if I sow them outside. However, I have no idea where else I would keep them. I'm concerned with my car being in the garage with the plants as it's in really bad shape and leaks several different fluids. When I get home from class it stinks for hours of transmission fluid and oil. I'm not sure what that would do to some seedlings. My question stemming from that would be if I must plant them in flats could these flats be left outside? We have very high winds here, so they would be subject to some amount of that no matter where they are located in the backyard.
My raspberry and currant I purchased several and so I feel okay trying one package of each outside, but the rest are single seed packets and I would hate to waste those. I'll tell my husband to get started on a window shelf so we have someplace to "greenhouse" about 50 starters. Thank you everyone for your support and information!