You should be starting seeds now
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- it seems crazy but it is time to start seed starting for this years garden and growing season.
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Because of your lead i did two things last year. 1. I had a spring crop going earlier than ever. When most are just starting planting, I had broccoli, cabbage, lettuces going strong. 2. With the perlite trick I had way better germination than I ever did before. Those two things were game changers for me.
That's awesome to hear!
@@sandybottomhomestead plus I never did a fall garden until this fall. Another thing you helped with. Now if I just could figure out the dead banana plant I discovered today after it looked to be thriving so far. I didn't check in the greenhouse for a couple busy weeks. Doh!
Oops we have all done it
Jeff from East Tennessee. I have intermediate day onions coming up. I will be planting cabbage in the next few days. Broccoli comes right after that. The onions are inside my house under grow lights. It is time to seed your spring plants. I love to plant seeds!!! Thanks!!!
I'm in Houston TX and I started my tomatoes, peppers, artichokes and flowers over Christmas. I'm four weeks into my third sowing of lettuces and kale and will plant them out soon. I planted my early broccoli out in October and it's ready to harvest. I was very late on carrots this year, so 🤞
I hope they turn out
I’m a horticulture student and also a band teacher in Kansas. Over break I got my onions up in my basement as well as celery. We have a snow storm blowing through tonight and tomorrow-meanwhile, my broccoli and nappa cabbages are covered out at the community garden, spinach seeds are priming on my kitchen counter, and brussles, artichokes, and collards are going in seed trays tonight! Waiting til next week for other stuff so that I have something extra to look forward to once school starts back up (they let me use the greenhouse on campus). Got some new trays in from Bootstrap yesterday. I’m so excited I can barely think straight! Should be a great season! Thanks for the videos!
I’m a band teacher in KY. My retirement dream is to go back to school for horticultural! I sowed some onions, brassicas, and herbs over my break too!
Hi Ben,
I’m right there with you on seed starting. I broke out the equipment and set everything up yesterday, light, heat mat, temperature regulator, 1020 trays, starting cells, etc. Today is seed sowing day for my garden, and my mother’s garden too, onions, cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower for the first round.
Buying transplants is not cost effective for me. Providing everything I want to grow in my garden was available, I’d spend well over $500. As it is I spend a tenth that, or less, on seeds, and $10 for potting soil. Even if I had to buy all new equipment, I’d probably spend under $200 altogether. It is a much better deal. The only downside is I lose the use of my dining room table for the next three months. I can live with that.
Brrr, I went outside to do morning chores, feed the cats, and let the chickens out of the coop. Brrr, it was 24F at 6:50 A.M. The cold went right through my short sleeve tee shirt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My mother tells me I need to wear a coat too. At least I was wearing shoes. Yesterday I wasn’t, but it was a warm 25F when I went outside.
It sounds like you are off to a good start!
I’ve been pre moistening pro mix since 2003. It’s still my choice for all seedlings and cuttings. On a different note I’ve been growing in that 50/50 from Wilmington compost and it’s been great. I added some peat to it for the berries. Working great. Outperforming the obnoxiously priced container mix from seaside. Thank you being into timing. It’s helped me a lot. Keeps me on track and shows me what I what I can get away with. Thank you.
That's where I get all my soil. If you get more tell em I sent you and they should give you a duscount
Yea, I'm already starting seeds! I've got a couple different variety of peppers going, some leeks, some onions, and some spinach. And oh man I can't wait to get them transplanted in the ground!
Edit: I forgot to say where I'm at. That being TN (Zone 7a)
I’m so excited for you!
I just got my onion seed sowed, started carrots, lettuce, and broad leaf sorrel. Also started my hot peppers. They seem to take a really long time to germinate. So many seeds, so little time, lol!
I’m in zone 7 Long Island, New York and I’m starting onions and celery 😃👍
I have found that a quick start fish starting kit is awesome for the starting of a new bed. $5 a bottle.
Somehow your channel got deleted from my favorites! I just realized that and went looking.
Seed starting. Im in Southern Ontario where its well below freezing but ive had 2 habanada peppers ( the no heat habinaro version) on my grow shelf since last fall. Covered in blooms but too cold in my house to produce fruit i guess. Time to get some of my early seeds started. Your video got me excited for the start of my growing season!! Already have my needed seeds purchased. Think im gonna run to town and buy a bag of your ProMix Mycorrhizae soil. Wish it wasnt so cold in my greenhouse this time of year!
Whats left in my garden ( kale, beets and a couple cabbage) are frozen solid.
im glad you are back!
Motivation! Thank you!!!
Glad I could help!
Bud from southeastern NC, started onions from seed today. Plan to start my pepper seeds the last week of January and my tomato seeds around the first week of February.
Right on schedule!
I can't start my peppers until the end of February at the earliest. They will be planted outside the end of may or in the high tunnel the end of april
Good idea about the perlite topper. Gonna do that for sure. I have two big bags I got for a really good price so there’s plenty.
It's 5° today in central Wisconsin, to early to plant, waiting another month 💞🐝🌱
I would start my onions in january and then start stepping up.
I'm, going to try and start my seeds, for the first time at the end of the month. Here in ct
OMG I'm I saw that. I am getting ready to start bok choy, lettuce and peppers. I will most definitely pre_soak the seed starting mix like you did. Thanks for the tip!
I will also try the perlite trick. I love it! From Tucson, Arizona.
@@davidgallego8506 I started doing it last year. The germination is so much better.
I still got lettuce, radishes going in the garden. I could have broccoli and kale but i don't eat those any longer. I will start so more lettuce today. I direct sow turnips in a couple weeks, radishes year round
It is still a couple of weeks before I start my seeds here in upstate SC. Last week of January, or first week of February I start my brassicas and Peppers. I bought onion plants from Dixondale this year and will be getting those in around the same time. Of course, I still have some collards, Brussels sprouts and kale growing out there. So still getting a little produce at least.
If I were you I would start those brassicas now
I’ve started several kinds of onions and leeks. I need to get spinach and celery started too. I grow lettuce year round, starting new batches every month. Some of the lettuce will only ever live in the grow room. Western PA zone 6B The brassica beetle means I can only grow cabbage in fall. Got some under cover out there now.
Sounds like you have a lot going on!
It’s onion time here in PA! My fall leeks were a fail (entirely due to my neglect) so I’m going for another round.
Made me LOL when you said I will bless you and not make you look at my face too much while I do this! 😂😂😂
Thanks for the video and motivation. When would you start waltham broccoli, brandywine tomatoes, and long island cheese pumpkin seeds indoors for zone 6 with a last frost around 4/20? I tried on 3/20 last year and it didnt go well. Transplanting into an outdoor container garden.
All of those have different start dates by far. do the math based on when you want to plant them out
Northeast Arkansas here. Is it to late for onions?
Start em
Hi I live in Michigan normally starting may 2nd weak best for vegetables gardening when I should start seeds my plants please let me know thanks
It really depends on what you are growing
I live on the Southern oregon coast, we don't get a lot of below freezing temperatures, but we get a ton of rain. Can my garden get to much water? We've had about 1.5" of rain in the past 2 days and more on the forecast. New to gardening in Oregon and haven't had any luck yet.
If you get alot of rain just don't water the garden yourself until it starts to dry
Awesome, thank you, I figured as much just wasn't sure. I really appreciate your response.
Purrrr-lite. Imagine yourself picking up a large bag of it and there is not much weight to it. It would be pur-lite!!
😂
What local store did you get the dirt at?
It's a small garden center not a chain store
My ace hardware carries it, in a large compressed bale too!
No you probably shouldn’t if you’re part of America that’s about to get a really bad winter storm. You should probably wait two weeks. Also when buying soil with mycorrhiza make sure it’s not part the sell by date so it’ll ensure more bacteria is still alive. Otherwise it’s just an upcharge on regular promix
Why would you wait for a storm outside if the seeds will be inside?
@ bc my garage even being insulated is 30 when it’s 4 outside
Mycorrhiza is a fungi, they found some dormant spores in a tomb from Egyptian pharaohs. You will be ok
Well then wait but that doesnt apply to everyone. obviously I am talking about if you are starting in a heated space. that is a special scenario...
Are you in the USA?
Yes
@ what zone you in?
nc i dont do zones they dont matter for growing food.
A couple of questions 1) Are you saying Paralite or Perlite? 2) Then you mentioned vermiculite. Are you still talking about Paralite or perlite? Or did you use vermiculite inanother way? Thank you!
perlite and i dont use vermiculite for any thing