I just started my seeds too. I'm in Texas where the weather is a bit more milder. I put all my seeds start trays outside, and cover them with fleece so the critters will stay off. I encourage people to find whatever method works for them.
Hi Tanya Great video as always. I’m enjoying your excitement about seed starting. Being in west of Scotland I have to contain mine a good few weeks longer as my last frost date is usually beginning of May 😢I may have to tempt fate and plant some peppers indoors in next couple of weeks. I always take away something from your videos… this time it’s clean your plant tags with nail varnish remover. So simple, why on earth didn’t I think of it before?It’s a game changer! No more wasted /scored out plant tags. Thanks!
It works so well! I sense an upcoming weekend project for you 💚 and if you're growing in a greenhouse/polytunnel get a few of those pepper seeds sown. Fortune favours the brave 👍
LOL! As a Brit living overseas and being educated in a school where both Queen's English and American English was accepted, I switch back and forth in my pronunciation and spelling, too! Actually, without even realising that I am doing it, sometimes, I tailor it to the person I am talking to/corresponding with.
It's HARD, isn't it? 😂 What do you say when you have both audiences at the same time? Or that you're more comfortable saying one word/pronunciation than the other? Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where they go to London? Homer's English to English dictionary has never left my mind! Lol
@@Lovelygreens Not really more comfortable with one over another; I sometimes get mixed up! I guess sometimes I just go with a mish-mash. LOL! Yeah, I loved that Simpsons episode!
I'm behind you with the last frost date, mine is mid March at the earliest. I think you're in (US) zone 7 or 8, so you can grow luffah but I certainly can't. Temperate rainforest zone, so dry weather is unpredictable, but with the ocean temperature in the Pacific, I might get a decently long season. I will use this to help me plan my seed planting next month.
The temperature rarely dips below freezing here, and it's never been hotter than 29⁰C (84⁰F). Technically, we're zone 9a going by temperature alone, but I say 8b instead because we have a wildly different climate from other 9a areas! I grow tomatoes, eggplant, and luffa in the Polycrub.
This week temperatures are either at the freezing mark or 1°C . It gets to -10°C at times. There are zone 7 farms here, I am zone 6 because of altitude.
There's still snow on the ground here, and it's actively snowing at the moment. My last frost date should be before or on the 9th of may, so my growing season is much shorter than yours. I'm glad that I found a website that tells me when to sow which seeds for my country with that last frost date. I'm interested to see how much food I can grow this year, my first growing year. We still need compost (having trouble finding a company that can deliver it to me) and an IBC tank to store 1000L of rainwater for watering the garden (also having trouble finding a company that sells to private persons...), and we have to build the raised beds and put a fence around it against the deer and hares that visit our garden every night. We did get free heat treated pallets that we will be using to build compost bins. I'm glad we have some of the things we need already, I just hope we can get everything else in time. It's going to be a lot of work still before the garden is functional, right now it is just a piece of lawn, but I am excited for what it will become. I'm also looking forward to your future videos and seeing how your garden will come along this year! I don't have those deep trays to plant peas and beans, but I've seen toilet roll tubes being used for those, which I might do, I have been saving them :).
With your climate, you'll probably graduate to a much more extensive grow room than I need to use. A good head start will help you to have a productive garden, despite the shortened growing period. Good luck on the IBC tank 🤞 Consider buying two or more if you have a big garden. During hot periods, a friend uses one a week to water her plants!
@@LovelygreensThank you for the response, I had no idea how much water I'd need, so we'll see about that this year. I did leave room in my plan for a second IBC, but I keep getting the advise to start small, so I am planning on starting with 6 raised beds and adding more next year, and if needed a second IBC. We also have a well, and a lake really close by, although I don't see myself going down there multiple times a day hauling water up to the garden, lol.
Great video, thank you so much! You have a much earlier frost free date than I do. I do have a very short growing season though so I still have to start plants pretty early. This coming Thursday I’ll be starting that. Before we know it we’ll be working like rented mules in the garden!😂. TeresaSue
I have a question please. Wich type of seedlings do you keep inside the house and for how long. Do you have to leave your house heating on full time? If so, what temperature? Thanks ❤❤
Aim to have seedlings in the house for no more than six weeks unless you have professional growing equipment - lights, fans, temperature control measures, etc. My temperate climate veg are only in the house until they germinate, then they go out to the greenhouse or Polycrub. Subtropical climate veg - tomatoes, eggplant, peppers - stay under growlights until nighttime temperatures are 10⁰C (50⁰F) or more. Then, they, too, go out into the greenhouse or Polycrub. The lettuce, rocket, and broccoli I sowed in the video can be eventually planted outside after our last frost.
Harvesting peat is environmentally destructive, and I don't want to be responsible for any further damage through my gardening activities. It's also unnecessary.
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. I have just last week sown some Dwarf type Tomato seeds.and some Lettuce. I hope i havent jumped the gun with the tomatoes. Ahh well!!! Time will tell. Looking forward to watching a new season of your videos. Thank You.
I just started my seeds too. I'm in Texas where the weather is a bit more milder. I put all my seeds start trays outside, and cover them with fleece so the critters will stay off. I encourage people to find whatever method works for them.
lovely to have seed sowing back tanya
i love the curtains/shades in the windows of your dining room...super cool...and of course, another great teaching video...thank you
Thanks, Barb 🩷 They've been mainly drawn over winter but are open and letting in the almost-spring sunshine!
Hi Tanya
Great video as always. I’m enjoying your excitement about seed starting. Being in west of Scotland I have to contain mine a good few weeks longer as my last frost date is usually beginning of May 😢I may have to tempt fate and plant some peppers indoors in next couple of weeks.
I always take away something from your videos… this time it’s clean your plant tags with nail varnish remover. So simple, why on earth didn’t I think of it before?It’s a game changer! No more wasted /scored out plant tags. Thanks!
It works so well! I sense an upcoming weekend project for you 💚 and if you're growing in a greenhouse/polytunnel get a few of those pepper seeds sown. Fortune favours the brave 👍
My God, the way you say Tomatoes! Big fan! 😁
Formidable vidéo bravo 😊
A bientôt
Lovely video, thank you for sharing 😊
My pleasure 😊
Thank u for sharing ur garden ideas.. happy gardening 2024👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I found the info very useful, thanks for sharing.
LOL! As a Brit living overseas and being educated in a school where both Queen's English and American English was accepted, I switch back and forth in my pronunciation and spelling, too! Actually, without even realising that I am doing it, sometimes, I tailor it to the person I am talking to/corresponding with.
It's HARD, isn't it? 😂 What do you say when you have both audiences at the same time? Or that you're more comfortable saying one word/pronunciation than the other? Have you ever seen the Simpsons episode where they go to London? Homer's English to English dictionary has never left my mind! Lol
@@Lovelygreens Not really more comfortable with one over another; I sometimes get mixed up! I guess sometimes I just go with a mish-mash. LOL! Yeah, I loved that Simpsons episode!
OMG! I see you are from the Isle of Man. I've always wanted to go there.
I'm behind you with the last frost date, mine is mid March at the earliest. I think you're in (US) zone 7 or 8, so you can grow luffah but I certainly can't.
Temperate rainforest zone, so dry weather is unpredictable, but with the ocean temperature in the Pacific, I might get a decently long season.
I will use this to help me plan my seed planting next month.
The temperature rarely dips below freezing here, and it's never been hotter than 29⁰C (84⁰F). Technically, we're zone 9a going by temperature alone, but I say 8b instead because we have a wildly different climate from other 9a areas! I grow tomatoes, eggplant, and luffa in the Polycrub.
This week temperatures are either at the freezing mark or 1°C . It gets to -10°C at times. There are zone 7 farms here, I am zone 6 because of altitude.
There's still snow on the ground here, and it's actively snowing at the moment. My last frost date should be before or on the 9th of may, so my growing season is much shorter than yours. I'm glad that I found a website that tells me when to sow which seeds for my country with that last frost date. I'm interested to see how much food I can grow this year, my first growing year. We still need compost (having trouble finding a company that can deliver it to me) and an IBC tank to store 1000L of rainwater for watering the garden (also having trouble finding a company that sells to private persons...), and we have to build the raised beds and put a fence around it against the deer and hares that visit our garden every night. We did get free heat treated pallets that we will be using to build compost bins. I'm glad we have some of the things we need already, I just hope we can get everything else in time. It's going to be a lot of work still before the garden is functional, right now it is just a piece of lawn, but I am excited for what it will become. I'm also looking forward to your future videos and seeing how your garden will come along this year! I don't have those deep trays to plant peas and beans, but I've seen toilet roll tubes being used for those, which I might do, I have been saving them :).
With your climate, you'll probably graduate to a much more extensive grow room than I need to use. A good head start will help you to have a productive garden, despite the shortened growing period. Good luck on the IBC tank 🤞 Consider buying two or more if you have a big garden. During hot periods, a friend uses one a week to water her plants!
@@LovelygreensThank you for the response, I had no idea how much water I'd need, so we'll see about that this year. I did leave room in my plan for a second IBC, but I keep getting the advise to start small, so I am planning on starting with 6 raised beds and adding more next year, and if needed a second IBC. We also have a well, and a lake really close by, although I don't see myself going down there multiple times a day hauling water up to the garden, lol.
12:12CT Nice video Tanya. Thanks again for your great content!
You're most welcome, Mike :)
Thank you
Great video, thank you so much! You have a much earlier frost free date than I do. I do have a very short growing season though so I still have to start plants pretty early. This coming Thursday I’ll be starting that. Before we know it we’ll be working like rented mules in the garden!😂. TeresaSue
I imagine that your grow room is a bit bigger, then! And yes, we'll be busy busy bees soon...can't wait 😍
Are those Think Green gloves? I have some and they’re the best I’ve ever had! Love the fleece lining this time of year.
Yes! Great gloves 👌💚
Hay, just a quick question can I plant sunflowers in the same bed with wild flowers ?
Of course - it can be a lovely combo, especially with dwarf sunflower varieties.
I put phacelia, borage, cosmos and marigold in the mix too
@@Karincl7 OK thanks so much !
Thank you tanya iam excited to sow but i lost all greens last year a warm spell insect destroyed them i need to cover them this year
Good luck for this year! 💚
I have a question please. Wich type of seedlings do you keep inside the house and for how long. Do you have to leave your house heating on full time? If so, what temperature? Thanks ❤❤
Aim to have seedlings in the house for no more than six weeks unless you have professional growing equipment - lights, fans, temperature control measures, etc. My temperate climate veg are only in the house until they germinate, then they go out to the greenhouse or Polycrub. Subtropical climate veg - tomatoes, eggplant, peppers - stay under growlights until nighttime temperatures are 10⁰C (50⁰F) or more. Then, they, too, go out into the greenhouse or Polycrub. The lettuce, rocket, and broccoli I sowed in the video can be eventually planted outside after our last frost.
Do you have a link for the grow lights please ? TIA Julie xx
Why do you have a peat free mix? Do you not like peat? I’m new at starting seedlings
Harvesting peat is environmentally destructive, and I don't want to be responsible for any further damage through my gardening activities. It's also unnecessary.
Hello Tanya Lovely Greens. I have just last week sown some Dwarf type Tomato seeds.and some Lettuce. I hope i havent jumped the gun with the tomatoes. Ahh well!!! Time will tell. Looking forward to watching a new season of your videos. Thank You.
You're most welcome! Enjoy the videos ahead 😊