If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” it and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching😊 TIMESTAMPS here: 0:00 Introduction To Starting Seeds 1:04 Veggies 1-5: Nightshade Transplants 3:32 Veggies 6-10: Root Vegetables 5:21 Veggies 11-17: Brassica Transplants 7:40 Veggie 18: Celery 9:53 Veggies 19-22: Direct Sow Crops 12:20 Veggies 23-26: Annual Herb Transplants 14:42 Veggies 27-31: Alliums 18:47 Veggie 32: Warm Season Lettuce 21:42 Adventures With Dale
My celery seeds never seem to produce so I've gotten to where I'll buy celery, use/eat it down to the inside center green shoots, then just plant the entire stalk roots into the ground or pot. I've even seen celery cut down to 1" from the stalk bottom grow from the center of kitchen scraps from cooking. I just find it easier to replant store bought celery and collards (clean to eat then plant the "bunch stalks") than to plant from seed. Turmeric, ginger, cranberry beans, and even potatoes, green onions and garlic I grow from kitchen "scraps" much easier than from seed. I'm experimenting with a cabbage 🥬and other brassicas now. 😊 Oh, and I do use plastic domes over plants to warm during freezes in FL.
Well I started my seeds a few mins a go trying to make them sprout. It is hot here in La so I will see still have some if don't work. Doing on a leap of faith.
@@tonialantrip3872 every place in the US can grow things by April. It may not be warm season crops, but brassicas, lettuce, etc. will easily grow in Washington in spring. If you want transplants ready for April, start them in February.
The detailed zone information is very important and is what is most lacking with most RUclips gardeners I think. Even just saying what zone they are in so I can get a basis. This is really good!
@@user-se4zl9tg4c I am in 7a and planting a lot this summer too many to mention. Currently I have kale, lettuce, turnips, harvested radish already, green onions, and lots of garlic. Got young cilantro and parsley growing from fall plant. Had probably a foot of snow and temp down to 10 degrees F and I am amazed almost everything survived except broccoli and cauliflower that wasn’t doing great anyway. Also peas survived but not expecting much from them. Have two nectarine plants from fall sow that seemed to handle that with ease in small grow pots! My dill died but it’s ok I sowed more indoors last night. Just put out winter sow onion and leak in cut plastic containers yesterday. Also this past spring/summer was my first time gardening. I’m in my 30s. It’s warmed up a bit for a little while I tried direct sowing arugula today think I might sow more radish too. Loving it!
I’m still trying to grow celery but in the meantime I take a bunch of celery (from the store), cut the bottom two inches from the base and plant it in a cool spot in the garden. Don’t bury it at any time or it’ll rot; instead set it on the ground and push it in about half an inch then keep it watered about two or three times a week. When it begins to grow, water about one or two times a week or when it’s stressed or wilts. Soon, you can harvest another bunch BUT always keep at least one stalk with leaves at full length, small one is fine. I covered mine during the arctic blast. I have three of them growing. They’re biannual so they may go to seed the second year. I’ll have to see.
A few years ago, I did an experiment with my onions and leeks. I sowed half of them indoors under lights in February and the other half into pots which I placed outside in my cold frame in February. While the ones sown outside in the cold frame took longer to germinate and put on growth, by harvest time, they had all reached the same size and matured at the same time. So now I don't bother starting them indoors since it is so much easier to sow them outside in February and forget about them. They germinate when the conditions are right for them. Southern Ontario zone 6b, last frost early-mid May, long day onions.
These videos are changing my life. I love how much work you put in and how all the information os clear and concise but i never get bored watching. Awesome work.
Amsterdam celery (celerette) is my favorite- it doesn’t make big crunchy stalks, but the herbal celery flavor is off the charts, and they’re incredibly prolific and cold-hardy. I planted two of them last year and they started off slow, but I didn’t buy a single stalk of celery all fall & winter, and they sauntered right through our polar snap- lows of 17°F, highs of 24-26°, for more than a week- without being covered at all. If regular celery doesn’t work for you, I recommend Amsterdam celerette!
Being a new gardener, this is the best video i have ever seen. I plan to follow everything you said. I feel i will be very successful. Thank you very much.
To say I am living vicariously through you is an understatement! I live in Zone 2B/3a (Manitoba, Canada). Really enjoy your content - thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I am also in Eastern NC and I grew 23 pounds of celery last year. I planted 3 varieties in November and they spend the entire winter with a row cover over them. Mine survived the recent hard frost this way. I am hoping not to have as much as I did last year!
I am in central SC and I also start my celery in the fall. If we have cold nights, they benefit from covering. If I forget or we have an unexpected cold snap, they will look horrible but bounce back.
Thank you for giving the context for different zones. I remember watching zone 9 and 10 gardeners years ago when I first started gardening, and I started my seeds in early February. Everything died, and I had to start again.😅
I am in Seattle prepping to move back to FL. I grow celery here - I agree it takes forever for it to grow. That said, it does just fine when buried in snow. The difference I may have is that I direct sow and they get all the weather that comes. I also plant Hardneck Garlic in the ground in September and they are amazing. (I actually have them in pots this year so I can take them with me when I move ) .
This is the single BEST video for timing of veggies in the garden I have ever found! This has just simplified my gardening IMMENSELY!!!! Invaluable information, clear and simple, no wasting of nonsense information. Literally every second of this video is worth my time to watch and learn. I am so happy to have found this and all your other videos! You are incredibly good at these videos. I hate nonsense and yapping about useless, boring nonsense. This is non of that! Sharing on our Colorado gardening page! Gardening in Colorado above 6400 ft in elevation and a short growing season in an incredible challenge but so fun!
One of the best gardening channels, period. Looking forward to your videos once you’re here in Florida. Hopefully I’ll have my garden figured out by then 👍
I am so glad I found your channel! I also live in SE NC zone 8b and finding i formation for LOCAL planting and gardening has been difficult. Thank you so much for sharing all this information!
USDA Zones don't have anything to do with when you plant your seeds for transplants, your ESTIMATED LAST FROST date is the date you need to count back from to figure out when to start your seeds.
I grew the cut & come green & pink celery last year and it overwintered here in Myrtle beach. I just harvested a ton. Made celery sat and chopped in the whizzed with a bit of water, then put in ice cube trays. I got them from rare seeds aka baker creek.
Love this comprehensive guide on starting a spring garden in February! The detailed breakdown of when to plant various veggies, from nightshades to root vegetables, makes it super easy for gardeners of all zones to get a head start on their gardens.
Im in NWArkansas, zone 7a/b. Usually our frost free date is April 15th. I have had success sowing carrots and beets as early as February under plastic. But they tend to peder out and not really make a decent root. Last year, i tried planting seed again in June. I had a sheet hanging over the bed to keep them cooler in the afternoon. Not only did it work, I had a decent harvest in a short period of time. I still want to sow carrot seed early bc i can, but I'm thinking of at least waiting till May.
I’ve delayed winter sowing in MA because of the warm temps. Now in addition to your regular tips, I now have to follow southern sowing schedules. I just feel bad for all the wildlife confused by this crazy “winter”.
Absolutely! I love this time of year. It's too bad this February has been so cold in the Southeast and looks like it's going to be wayyyyy below average into March, but it'll eventually come to an end.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yeah! I hope the groundhog is right and that we get an early spring! I am trying to be patient and not plant things too early but the random warms days that have come in between the storms has been tricking my brain!
Love your videos! Thank you for the amount of time and effort you put in to making them. I learn something EVERY TIME I watch one of your videos!! -From the PNW Zone 8B
Enjoy the videos. I am so happy you addressed all the variables for starting. Zone 6 can't start Nightshade until mid-March. Can start some cold crops at the end of February... until then, vicariously living through you. PS celery I had great success winter sowing in jugs, placed shady spot in garden did awesome. Maybe that will work for you?
I think you can start some nightshades in Feb if you’re willing to grow a few early determinate tomatoes and smaller peppers in pots. You can start a handful to get a huge jump, then carry them in on the odd frosty night. That’s how I start picking tomatoes in late April my way. I already have tomatoes ready to go to set out by March 1, and I’ll bring them in if it is going to freeze.
Great information here! Last year was my first year starting the entire garden from seed and I started most stuff too late. I thought I was starting early enough but still ended up later than I wanted. I think you are right in that most gardeners think now or even next month is too early but it's really not. I underestimated how tolerant a lot of plants are of the cold.
I wanted to share how I got my celery to grow with great success. The seed are so tiny, I take a small tray like a tupperware approx. 4 x 6 inches. I fill with any potting soil and sprinkle the seeds over the top and lightly cover with a little more soil. I slowly soak the whole tray and set aside. I never let it dry out, I keep a light moist soil. Now this is the weird part. Sometime the seed don't germinate in the timing on the packet of seed. However celery is a very slow grower at least for me, but it will always grow even it is months later and this is the fun part. I do NOT thin. When they get to be approx 1 to 2 inches I will pull out a 2 x 2 inch chunck of my sprouted celery out of my tray and slowly pull apart and plant ... I got hundreds and I am still have them growing today and it has been over 1 year. I never chop the whole plant off, I take what I need and it keeps growing more. So, I just started another seed tray and again, it took months to sprout. but they did. and I will plant as soon as they reach 1 to 2 inches.
I'm in NC and planted celery (the same pink one) last year. Yes slow to germinate but was great nice cutting thin stalks nice pink stays when cooked!! And it's still growing in January even outside without cover through the Arctic temps last weekend.
I so appreciate all the information you share! I just moved to coastal Carolina in the fall. I'm excited to get my gardens growing and your knowledge is SO HELPFUL!! Thank you so much! Belly rubs to Dale!
I found your channel a little over a year ago, last summer I branched out and grew some things I hadn't before & they did amazing. This year I will be adding even more new things. I have my regular stuff I always plant but now I'm trying some different things too just to see if I can grow them. Lol Thanks for all your info, you help a lot of people.
My best tomato year we planted 36-48 inch tall plants. I started them at the middle of January. We planted deep. It helped us not have to water all summer. Fixing to start my tomatoes this week.
I need to say thank you for including the metric measures in your video. It really helps me, as I do not have to convert it all the time to get it right.
Everyone that gardens has failures. There are good and bad crops every season. Weather is always variable, you never know what the pest pressure is going to be like...unless you're growing in an indoor, climate-controlled greenhouse, things are going to go wrong. But it's OK. You learn the most when things go wrong, so failing isn't necessarily bad. It's only bad if you quit because of it.
I just scatter my celery in the garden after frost and they pop up just fine! I'm in San Diego and they tolerate our summers under shade cloth with plenty of water of course.
Thank you for the consideration of these zone plantings..I'm up in Massachusetts and today just sewn onion seed indoors. Congratulations on moving to Fl 🇺🇸 can't wait to see what you eventually do with your new property .
Coastal SC here 8b- Im late🙃 cant believe I missed this video days ago. However, Im proud to say I've started many of these veggies and bed preparations based on the last couple of years watching your videos and taking note. 😊 i have even already gotten my seed potatoes. Poor Dale, you wore him out Dad before filming❤
thanks this was awesome - I was stressing about what to do when for my spring crop in SC - this answered ALL of my questions - so informative - thanks again!
Hi. Zone 5b (New Brunswick, Canada) here so will not be starting much indoors just yet except 15 celery ends (lucky to have my sister that juices celery daily). They begin to germinate from the center of old growth and start roots by placing in water. This takes 3 to 4 days approx. When the roots get going, transplant into soil plus the time you mentioned to mature for transplant outside.
I will share something that I discovered this season. I have 6 weeks old celery transplants ready to go in the garden and I’m sure it’s because of soil block, 40 of the plants I started germinate and there so happy growing amazing.
It is too hot in Hawaii to grow celery at 600 ft. I grow cutting celery instead. Thank you for this informative video on when to start plants in different zones. Peppers germinate best when soil temps are between 68-80. If you grow them indoors in a cold place they would need a heat mat. Cilantro likes temp above freezing but less than 75 in the daytime. Italian parsley can handle sun. Partial shade in summer. Green onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant can grow year round zone 11 and up Bulbs and garlic are better planted in the fall. September for onions from seed, October 25 for garlic bulbs.
Thank you for the excellent advice and tips you give us in your videos. I’m a regular listener and have learned a lot about outside gardening from you. I live in Seattle and I have two 5 foot tall by 3 foot wide floor plant stands in my condo with two grow lights hanging from each shelf. Plus several windowsill, grow lights and a variety of heat mats. I wonder if you are interested in creating a video about how to grow vegetables throughout the year indoors. Which plants would be suitable and successful, and the ones to avoid. I searched, through your playlist, but didn’t find a video about the subject. Thank you once again for being an excellent educator. You’re helping gardeners all around the world. That’s a wonderful thing to do. Cheers sincerely, Ray.
I Have an idea for your celery...... I'm in your same growing zone 8b but in utah! In my gardens I've grown celery from seed a few times. Currently i have a volunteer celery plant in my garden that is growing beautifully. (I still need to clear my garden out for spring planting!!!! Will get to it this weekend...) Perhaps when you clean and prep your beds for winter time, just sew your celery directly in the garden and it will sprout when the conditions are perfect for it mid winter. My plant as of feb 29 is probably 5 inches across and looks beautifully healthy though not quite as tall as wide yet. My garden was full of volunteer celery last year that I just let grow.
Hey Dale, I'm from western NC, can you do a video of when, how, and what to do of these types of plants ginger, culantro, lemongrass, and daikon radish? Thank you.
Thanks fellow North Carolinian ❤ I'm excited for this season. It's been 3 years since I moved here and I've stuck with your channel and I can't thank you enough for your amazing content 🎉🏆🏆🏆🏆🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Hey Dale ❤😂
@TheMillennialGardener Absolutely. I'm thinking about starting a channel next year! When I do, I'm using you as reference so look out 🤣😂🏆🙏🏽 Ignore the naysayers you're doing great work.
I just cheated. I transplanted two bunches of green onions into my garden. LOL! Then they`ll grow sometimes until next year, provide plenty of green tops, and eventually bloom and make tons of free seeds for mass sowing. I have leek seedlings about 4 inches tall and my green peas from a dry store package are coming up now in zone 8a Louisiana. I`m waiting on strawberries and a dwarf mulberry tree to arrive. I can propagate both. The birds will love the mulberries. I`m getting strawberries that produce lots of runners. I`m going to a store in town in 3 weeks to get more fruit trees...thinking about a satsuma, Asian persimmon and Asian pear and also ordering four Celeste fig trees next month or sooner depending on the forecast. But I had to upgrade my emergency solar some with more efficient panels and thicker cables before spring storms, so I couldn`t get everything I wanted yet. And I went ahead and got the supplies for making a few gallons of blackberry wine too because I pruned and fertilized my 100 ft wild patch and expect a bumper crop.
Your videos are really helpful I’m going to try planting sweet potatoes 🍠 as well my first time ever. But first I have to make slip out of it so I already put ina soil and now I hope it would grow and make me happy 😊
Thank you! I am in zone 2 so I purchase celery bedding plants as I don't have space to start much. I do get some excellent harvests though. I did not realize it does not like too much heat so thank you I may have to use a cover if it gets too hot.
Suggestions about celery, MG. Apart from the fact that the germination percentage is rather low, many of the sprouts die for no apparent reason. Fact is, they’re quite susceptible to damping off. Try spraying a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide (1 : 8) in the water you use to water them two or three times a week. (Don’t use any other water until they grow to an inch at least!) Next, if possible, use a low adjustment on an oscillating fan 2 or 3 feet from the baby plants. That should have the double effect of reducing fungus at soil surface, and helping to harden them off .
Great info! I’m so motivated to get started but I’m in the NE on the Southcoast of MA. I’ll give it another two weeks then follow your lead on direct seeding. It’s been a mild winter, still have some lettuce and kale braving the snow cover. ❤
40% shade clothe extends my season by three months. If I don’t use it the sun just cooks everything. Last year it even stunted the okra that is known to love heat
I planted celery (direct sow) in my partially afternoon shaded garden bed last March and the seeds took about 30 days to germinate. Then they grew all spring happily though not quite mature. Then the heat hit and some of the plants died off but not all. Now I’m down to 5 or six that were giving me nice sized celery stalks starting in the fall once it got cooler. I made the mistake of not harvesting the mature stalks before the deep freeze here in East Texas where it got down in the teens and lost most of those stalks. The plants all survived but I had to go and cut them back after a week or so and I could tell what stalks were dead and what might’ve survived. Basically they looked like a celery plant with cut off outer stalks and fresh green leaves in the middle (kind of like when you regrow one from the store). They’ll grow back and the celery from the store that I planted in that same bed were totally unaffected by the freeze. I wish I had thought to cover the bed though and saved myself the loss of those beautiful mature stalks! I had planted new celery seedlings direct sow also this fall and those seeds popped up right away, as in within a week!😱I was shocked! Those did fine through the freeze also. I think I’ll have some more yummy celery to look forward to this year! My trick has been to plant them direct sow. I’ve never had any luck planting in a tray and transplanting them. 🤷🏻♀️ I’m in zone 9a now btw. Last frost date in mid to late March. I finally got a greenhouse so I’m excited to have gotten my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants all started already in the greenhouse with heat mats. Some have sprouted already. Very exciting!
In my experience Celery likes boggy condition, clay soil. I planted once let some go to seed and they keep coming back in the walkway next to my raised beds. They are in a shady area of my garden, but they survive through the summer fairly well and we are in 90's most of July & Aug.
Thank you for another great video filled with details as usual. You caught me off guard to be honest so I had to get out my seeds and get things in order to prepare for germination. I’m in south central Pennsylvania in zone 6B and my last frost is around May 10th. Time to get busy! Thank you and I hope you all harvest a pile of tasty homegrown goodness.
We are in zone 5, however I always, always appreciate your material. But today (call me silly) I want to really praise you for knowing how to pronounce February. You get five gold stars!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Im in 6a/b and we can still get cold snaps through all of April. So for us, I plan to plant warm weather plants the week after mother’s day as long as the 10 day forecast looks good.
For celery, i saw a REALLY cool reel about a farmer using incandescent Christmas bulbs under the frost cover for some of their otherwise frost tolerant plants. Looked so cool!!
Thank you for very nice guide! I moved from CA, zone 9, which is high desert to KY, zone 6b. I wish to share my experience with celery - in high desert it was growing like a weed all year around. Celery stalks, not roots. It was flowering, then seeds felt into the soil and new plants start growing without additional care. After 5 years I had area around old celery plant with all new celeries which pushes away grass. 🤷♀. It will be my first spring season in KY🙂
I really like episode that recommend what to grow like this one. I also like tomato taste test video (that was how I discovered your channel) as well as mid season performance report or end of season review of different varieties of tomato or any other crops from some of your other videos too. I am an urban gardener with no garden space tho, container gardening through and through. I am wondering if you would consider making a video on the varieties of the popular crops that gardeners with abundant space usually grow, that might work for urban container gardener like me. I feel like there ought to be at least few varieties out there that will do ok in container for every tomato, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, or even zucchini, etc. Another common constraint among gardener with small space or in urban setting is that the amount of sunlight we get might not be ideal and there isn’t much we could do about it. So, recommendations on crops that would still perform ok without a lot of sun would be very helpful too. Totally get it if that isn’t something you want to do, as your settings is vastly different. I just think there are a lot of urban gardeners out there that would benefit from such information. All of the videos I have found on the topic pretty much said to grow herbs and lettuce, and that’s that. I am already growing those and could use more challenge. Either way, thanks for the video. Love Dale’s adventures! Ps. I grow both baker creek’s Pink Chinese celery and Utah Giant celery, and Utah Giant is much easier to grow for me. Also, just FYI, Chinese celery’s culinary application is somewhat different from the standard celery (also casually referred to western celery according to my Asian family.)
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If you enjoyed this video, please “Like” it and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching😊 TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Introduction To Starting Seeds
1:04 Veggies 1-5: Nightshade Transplants
3:32 Veggies 6-10: Root Vegetables
5:21 Veggies 11-17: Brassica Transplants
7:40 Veggie 18: Celery
9:53 Veggies 19-22: Direct Sow Crops
12:20 Veggies 23-26: Annual Herb Transplants
14:42 Veggies 27-31: Alliums
18:47 Veggie 32: Warm Season Lettuce
21:42 Adventures With Dale
Agree!!❤
My celery seeds never seem to produce so I've gotten to where I'll buy celery, use/eat it down to the inside center green shoots, then just plant the entire stalk roots into the ground or pot. I've even seen celery cut down to 1" from the stalk bottom grow from the center of kitchen scraps from cooking.
I just find it easier to replant store bought celery and collards (clean to eat then plant the "bunch stalks") than to plant from seed. Turmeric, ginger, cranberry beans, and even potatoes, green onions and garlic I grow from kitchen "scraps" much easier than from seed.
I'm experimenting with a cabbage 🥬and other brassicas now. 😊
Oh, and I do use plastic domes over plants to warm during freezes in FL.
Well I started my seeds a few mins a go trying to make them sprout. It is hot here in La so I will see still have some if don't work. Doing on a leap of faith.
What about Washington state?
@@tonialantrip3872 every place in the US can grow things by April. It may not be warm season crops, but brassicas, lettuce, etc. will easily grow in Washington in spring. If you want transplants ready for April, start them in February.
This man is the real deal. He doesn’t waste viewers time
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
I agree. All business. No drama or stories.
The detailed zone information is very important and is what is most lacking with most RUclips gardeners I think. Even just saying what zone they are in so I can get a basis. This is really good!
Thank you! I try to make these videos so everyone can get a good idea, not just people local to me.
What are you growing and what zone??
If you are lucky they might tell you where they are, otherwise you’re going to have to guess where they are by the environment around them.
I agree! I can't believe how often that information is missing from other channels.
@@user-se4zl9tg4c I am in 7a and planting a lot this summer too many to mention. Currently I have kale, lettuce, turnips, harvested radish already, green onions, and lots of garlic. Got young cilantro and parsley growing from fall plant. Had probably a foot of snow and temp down to 10 degrees F and I am amazed almost everything survived except broccoli and cauliflower that wasn’t doing great anyway. Also peas survived but not expecting much from them. Have two nectarine plants from fall sow that seemed to handle that with ease in small grow pots! My dill died but it’s ok I sowed more indoors last night. Just put out winter sow onion and leak in cut plastic containers yesterday. Also this past spring/summer was my first time gardening. I’m in my 30s. It’s warmed up a bit for a little while I tried direct sowing arugula today think I might sow more radish too. Loving it!
I’m still trying to grow celery but in the meantime I take a bunch of celery (from the store), cut the bottom two inches from the base and plant it in a cool spot in the garden. Don’t bury it at any time or it’ll rot; instead set it on the ground and push it in about half an inch then keep it watered about two or three times a week. When it begins to grow, water about one or two times a week or when it’s stressed or wilts.
Soon, you can harvest another bunch BUT always keep at least one stalk with leaves at full length, small one is fine.
I covered mine during the arctic blast. I have three of them growing. They’re biannual so they may go to seed the second year. I’ll have to see.
Thanks for this tip!
My thoughts exactly. Just take the bunch from the grocery store, use it then root it and, voila! Celery! Easy peasy
A few years ago, I did an experiment with my onions and leeks. I sowed half of them indoors under lights in February and the other half into pots which I placed outside in my cold frame in February. While the ones sown outside in the cold frame took longer to germinate and put on growth, by harvest time, they had all reached the same size and matured at the same time. So now I don't bother starting them indoors since it is so much easier to sow them outside in February and forget about them. They germinate when the conditions are right for them. Southern Ontario zone 6b, last frost early-mid May, long day onions.
I do parsley, dill and cilantro by just sowing like grass seed and let them grow.
I’m ready to start my garden. I’m so excited after purchasing my first home. Here we go. ❤
When you've reached the MG master class level that you "just grow amazing looking tomatoes as props" 😅😅😅
It helps keep me busy during the winter 😂
No kidding! 😂
MG, You look excited and happy! Me too! Spring is almost here.
Now that the severe cold is over, I’m hoping we are in the clear for the year.
Gardening is so good for mental health.
Absolutely! It's changed my life in so many positive ways.
These videos are changing my life. I love how much work you put in and how all the information os clear and concise but i never get bored watching. Awesome work.
Thank you! I'm so glad you are enjoying them!
Amsterdam celery (celerette) is my favorite- it doesn’t make big crunchy stalks, but the herbal celery flavor is off the charts, and they’re incredibly prolific and cold-hardy. I planted two of them last year and they started off slow, but I didn’t buy a single stalk of celery all fall & winter, and they sauntered right through our polar snap- lows of 17°F, highs of 24-26°, for more than a week- without being covered at all. If regular celery doesn’t work for you, I recommend Amsterdam celerette!
Being a new gardener, this is the best video i have ever seen. I plan to follow everything you said. I feel i will be very successful. Thank you very much.
I’m so happy to hear the video was helpful! I wish you the best of luck!
Starting my first garden and soooo grateful to come across a RUclips gardener in my SAME ZONE!!!!! instantly subbed
Thanks for subscribing! I appreciate it!
Same! I’m near Myrtle Beach, SC
To say I am living vicariously through you is an understatement! I live in Zone 2B/3a (Manitoba, Canada). Really enjoy your content - thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I am also in Eastern NC and I grew 23 pounds of celery last year. I planted 3 varieties in November and they spend the entire winter with a row cover over them. Mine survived the recent hard frost this way. I am hoping not to have as much as I did last year!
I am in central SC and I also start my celery in the fall. If we have cold nights, they benefit from covering. If I forget or we have an unexpected cold snap, they will look horrible but bounce back.
Thank you so much for this! I live in Winston Salem NC (just moved back) I was in zone 4 gardening so I appreciate this zone 8 greatly!!!
Thank you for giving the context for different zones. I remember watching zone 9 and 10 gardeners years ago when I first started gardening, and I started my seeds in early February. Everything died, and I had to start again.😅
I love how "just in time" your videos already are. In Zone 9 in Texas and it's always pretty close for the timing.
I am in Seattle prepping to move back to FL. I grow celery here - I agree it takes forever for it to grow. That said, it does just fine when buried in snow. The difference I may have is that I direct sow and they get all the weather that comes. I also plant Hardneck Garlic in the ground in September and they are amazing. (I actually have them in pots this year so I can take them with me when I move ) .
This is the single BEST video for timing of veggies in the garden I have ever found! This has just simplified my gardening IMMENSELY!!!! Invaluable information, clear and simple, no wasting of nonsense information. Literally every second of this video is worth my time to watch and learn. I am so happy to have found this and all your other videos! You are incredibly good at these videos. I hate nonsense and yapping about useless, boring nonsense. This is non of that! Sharing on our Colorado gardening page! Gardening in Colorado above 6400 ft in elevation and a short growing season in an incredible challenge but so fun!
One of the best gardening channels, period. Looking forward to your videos once you’re here in Florida. Hopefully I’ll have my garden figured out by then 👍
I imagine he will still be growing in buckets, pouches and beds in Florida.
I am so glad I found your channel! I also live in SE NC zone 8b and finding i formation for LOCAL planting and gardening has been difficult. Thank you so much for sharing all this information!
USDA Zones don't have anything to do with when you plant your seeds for transplants, your ESTIMATED LAST FROST date is the date you need to count back from to figure out when to start your seeds.
God bless you, you have helped a family with so much information, can thank you enough ❤
Zone 8b, alabama here. I started my peppers earlier this week on a heat mat since we have hot aprils
I grew the cut & come green & pink celery last year and it overwintered here in Myrtle beach. I just harvested a ton. Made celery sat and chopped in the whizzed with a bit of water, then put in ice cube trays. I got them from rare seeds aka baker creek.
Love this comprehensive guide on starting a spring garden in February! The detailed breakdown of when to plant various veggies, from nightshades to root vegetables, makes it super easy for gardeners of all zones to get a head start on their gardens.
Im in NWArkansas, zone 7a/b. Usually our frost free date is April 15th. I have had success sowing carrots and beets as early as February under plastic. But they tend to peder out and not really make a decent root. Last year, i tried planting seed again in June. I had a sheet hanging over the bed to keep them cooler in the afternoon. Not only did it work, I had a decent harvest in a short period of time. I still want to sow carrot seed early bc i can, but I'm thinking of at least waiting till May.
Always awesome and helpful content!!! Love that you always include variety as it’s always helpful.
Glad it’s helpful!
I’ve delayed winter sowing in MA because of the warm temps. Now in addition to your regular tips, I now have to follow southern sowing schedules. I just feel bad for all the wildlife confused by this crazy “winter”.
I agree! This is such an exciting time of year! So much anticipation and spring fever!
Absolutely! I love this time of year. It's too bad this February has been so cold in the Southeast and looks like it's going to be wayyyyy below average into March, but it'll eventually come to an end.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yeah! I hope the groundhog is right and that we get an early spring! I am trying to be patient and not plant things too early but the random warms days that have come in between the storms has been tricking my brain!
Love your videos! Thank you for the amount of time and effort you put in to making them. I learn something EVERY TIME I watch one of your videos!! -From the PNW Zone 8B
Enjoy the videos. I am so happy you addressed all the variables for starting. Zone 6 can't start Nightshade until mid-March. Can start some cold crops at the end of February... until then, vicariously living through you.
PS celery I had great success winter sowing in jugs, placed shady spot in garden did awesome. Maybe that will work for you?
I think you can start some nightshades in Feb if you’re willing to grow a few early determinate tomatoes and smaller peppers in pots. You can start a handful to get a huge jump, then carry them in on the odd frosty night. That’s how I start picking tomatoes in late April my way. I already have tomatoes ready to go to set out by March 1, and I’ll bring them in if it is going to freeze.
@TheMillennialGardener oh great advice, thank you! I do have grow bags that I could use.
Great information here! Last year was my first year starting the entire garden from seed and I started most stuff too late. I thought I was starting early enough but still ended up later than I wanted. I think you are right in that most gardeners think now or even next month is too early but it's really not. I underestimated how tolerant a lot of plants are of the cold.
I wanted to share how I got my celery to grow with great success. The seed are so tiny, I take a small tray like a tupperware approx. 4 x 6 inches. I fill with any potting soil and sprinkle the seeds over the top and lightly cover with a little more soil. I slowly soak the whole tray and set aside. I never let it dry out, I keep a light moist soil. Now this is the weird part. Sometime the seed don't germinate in the timing on the packet of seed. However celery is a very slow grower at least for me, but it will always grow even it is months later and this is the fun part. I do NOT thin. When they get to be approx 1 to 2 inches I will pull out a 2 x 2 inch chunck of my sprouted celery out of my tray and slowly pull apart and plant ... I got hundreds and I am still have them growing today and it has been over 1 year. I never chop the whole plant off, I take what I need and it keeps growing more. So, I just started another seed tray and again, it took months to sprout. but they did. and I will plant as soon as they reach 1 to 2 inches.
Yes! I finally found someone without the terrible background music AND in N.C.🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I'm in NC and planted celery (the same pink one) last year. Yes slow to germinate but was great nice cutting thin stalks nice pink stays when cooked!! And it's still growing in January even outside without cover through the Arctic temps last weekend.
Interesting. They must be a lot more cold tolerant when mature. The transplants were killed at 26°F.
I really like how he sprinkles some gardening tips into these Dale videos.
So glad I found your channel.
You’re the best!
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Good coverage of various growing zone...best I've seen
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful.
I started celery seeds in milk jugs and it was successful. 😊
I so appreciate all the information you share! I just moved to coastal Carolina in the fall. I'm excited to get my gardens growing and your knowledge is SO HELPFUL!! Thank you so much! Belly rubs to Dale!
I found your channel a little over a year ago, last summer I branched out and grew some things I hadn't before & they did amazing. This year I will be adding even more new things. I have my regular stuff I always plant but now I'm trying some different things too just to see if I can grow them. Lol Thanks for all your info, you help a lot of people.
My best tomato year we planted 36-48 inch tall plants. I started them at the middle of January. We planted deep. It helped us not have to water all summer. Fixing to start my tomatoes this week.
I need to say thank you for including the metric measures in your video. It really helps me, as I do not have to convert it all the time to get it right.
Thank you for the great information MG! Great timing too! 😊👍👍
It's still good to watch for people who are one month behind in the north.
Love how you tell of your failures along with your successes. Makes me feel like kess if a gardening failure
Everyone that gardens has failures. There are good and bad crops every season. Weather is always variable, you never know what the pest pressure is going to be like...unless you're growing in an indoor, climate-controlled greenhouse, things are going to go wrong. But it's OK. You learn the most when things go wrong, so failing isn't necessarily bad. It's only bad if you quit because of it.
I just scatter my celery in the garden after frost and they pop up just fine! I'm in San Diego and they tolerate our summers under shade cloth with plenty of water of course.
Thank you for the consideration of these zone plantings..I'm up in Massachusetts and today just sewn onion seed indoors. Congratulations on moving to Fl 🇺🇸 can't wait to see what you eventually do with your new property .
Best gardening channel ever!! Thanks!! You make gardening so much easier and more exciting. 🤩
Coastal SC here 8b- Im late🙃 cant believe I missed this video days ago. However, Im proud to say I've started many of these veggies and bed preparations based on the last couple of years watching your videos and taking note. 😊 i have even already gotten my seed potatoes. Poor Dale, you wore him out Dad before filming❤
Zone 6 coastal MA here. Last year I started onions in first week of jan. This yeah I started them jan 25th.
I love how comprehensive this video is! I see that there’s some things in my zone 6 that I can start right now. I’m itching to get planting!
thanks this was awesome - I was stressing about what to do when for my spring crop in SC - this answered ALL of my questions - so informative - thanks again!
Your videos are great and you have a motivating presence. Thank you so much!!
Hi. Zone 5b (New Brunswick, Canada) here so will not be starting much indoors just yet except 15 celery ends (lucky to have my sister that juices celery daily). They begin to germinate from the center of old growth and start roots by placing in water. This takes 3 to 4 days approx. When the roots get going, transplant into soil plus the time you mentioned to mature for transplant outside.
I will share something that I discovered this season. I have 6 weeks old celery transplants ready to go in the garden and I’m sure it’s because of soil block, 40 of the plants I started germinate and there so happy growing amazing.
I have been getting Lettuce and Oregano going indoors. That started when it was 4 degrees outside lol
It is too hot in Hawaii to grow celery at 600 ft. I grow cutting celery instead. Thank you for this informative video on when to start plants in different zones. Peppers germinate best when soil temps are between 68-80. If you grow them indoors in a cold place they would need a heat mat. Cilantro likes temp above freezing but less than 75 in the daytime. Italian parsley can handle sun. Partial shade in summer. Green onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant can grow year round zone 11 and up Bulbs and garlic are better planted in the fall. September for onions from seed, October 25 for garlic bulbs.
Hope you two are well. Delighted youre back
Thank you for the excellent advice and tips you give us in your videos. I’m a regular listener and have learned a lot about outside gardening from you. I live in Seattle and I have two 5 foot tall by 3 foot wide floor plant stands in my condo with two grow lights hanging from each shelf. Plus several windowsill, grow lights and a variety of heat mats. I wonder if you are interested in creating a video about how to grow vegetables throughout the year indoors. Which plants would be suitable and successful, and the ones to avoid. I searched, through your playlist, but didn’t find a video about the subject. Thank you once again for being an excellent educator. You’re helping gardeners all around the world. That’s a wonderful thing to do. Cheers sincerely, Ray.
I Have an idea for your celery...... I'm in your same growing zone 8b but in utah! In my gardens I've grown celery from seed a few times. Currently i have a volunteer celery plant in my garden that is growing beautifully. (I still need to clear my garden out for spring planting!!!! Will get to it this weekend...) Perhaps when you clean and prep your beds for winter time, just sew your celery directly in the garden and it will sprout when the conditions are perfect for it mid winter. My plant as of feb 29 is probably 5 inches across and looks beautifully healthy though not quite as tall as wide yet. My garden was full of volunteer celery last year that I just let grow.
They grew great even through our hot summers. They lasted until they froze.
Your videos are just awesome! Your information is easy to follow, clear and in-depth. I don't know how hard it is to do, but please write a book!
I love your videos and your passion to share what you know and helping us learn those eccentricities of gardening!!!
I appreciate it. I'm glad the videos are helping!
I'm in USDA zone 8B also, near Oregon City / Beavercreek Oregon.
Thank you so much for your timely videos and great information!
You’re very welcome!
Great info! Thank you!!
You are so thero. I thank you so much for this information. I'll have to listen again with pen and paper.
Hey Dale,
I'm from western NC, can you do a video of when, how, and what to do of these types of plants ginger, culantro, lemongrass, and daikon radish?
Thank you.
Thanks fellow North Carolinian ❤ I'm excited for this season. It's been 3 years since I moved here and I've stuck with your channel and I can't thank you enough for your amazing content 🎉🏆🏆🏆🏆🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hey Dale ❤😂
I appreciate it! I hope the videos have been helpful. Dale says hi!
@TheMillennialGardener Absolutely. I'm thinking about starting a channel next year! When I do, I'm using you as reference so look out 🤣😂🏆🙏🏽 Ignore the naysayers you're doing great work.
I just cheated. I transplanted two bunches of green onions into my garden. LOL! Then they`ll grow sometimes until next year, provide plenty of green tops, and eventually bloom and make tons of free seeds for mass sowing. I have leek seedlings about 4 inches tall and my green peas from a dry store package are coming up now in zone 8a Louisiana. I`m waiting on strawberries and a dwarf mulberry tree to arrive. I can propagate both. The birds will love the mulberries. I`m getting strawberries that produce lots of runners. I`m going to a store in town in 3 weeks to get more fruit trees...thinking about a satsuma, Asian persimmon and Asian pear and also ordering four Celeste fig trees next month or sooner depending on the forecast. But I had to upgrade my emergency solar some with more efficient panels and thicker cables before spring storms, so I couldn`t get everything I wanted yet. And I went ahead and got the supplies for making a few gallons of blackberry wine too because I pruned and fertilized my 100 ft wild patch and expect a bumper crop.
That was the BEST video I’ve ever watched. Thank you 😊😊
Your videos are really helpful
I’m going to try planting sweet potatoes 🍠 as well my first time ever. But first I have to make slip out of it so I already put ina soil and now I hope it would grow and make me happy 😊
This video will show you how to start slips: ruclips.net/video/0igp5IzO21g/видео.htmlsi=bseO6MyRQ7etPNO5
I cut one and a half to 2 foot sections of four-inch PVC and put them around my celery. That was the only year I ever had luck with celery.
Thank you! I am in zone 2 so I purchase celery bedding plants as I don't have space to start much. I do get some excellent harvests though. I did not realize it does not like too much heat so thank you I may have to use a cover if it gets too hot.
I guess Dale just wanted to be a cute little pill. He's just so adorable!!!!!!❤❤❤❤
He is a stinkerpot. At least that’s what we call him 😂
Suggestions about celery, MG. Apart from the fact that the germination percentage is rather low, many of the sprouts die for no apparent reason. Fact is, they’re quite susceptible to damping off. Try spraying a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide (1 : 8) in the water you use to water them two or three times a week. (Don’t use any other water until they grow to an inch at least!) Next, if possible, use a low adjustment on an oscillating fan 2 or 3 feet from the baby plants. That should have the double effect of reducing fungus at soil surface, and helping to harden them off .
Great info! I’m so motivated to get started but I’m in the NE on the Southcoast of MA. I’ll give it another two weeks then follow your lead on direct seeding. It’s been a mild winter, still have some lettuce and kale braving the snow cover. ❤
Love your videos !!
I’m in upstate ny
Wake me in March lol
Haven’t commented in a while, so just wanted to show the support. Thanks for all the great videos!
40% shade clothe extends my season by three months. If I don’t use it the sun just cooks everything. Last year it even stunted the okra that is known to love heat
I planted celery (direct sow) in my partially afternoon shaded garden bed last March and the seeds took about 30 days to germinate. Then they grew all spring happily though not quite mature. Then the heat hit and some of the plants died off but not all. Now I’m down to 5 or six that were giving me nice sized celery stalks starting in the fall once it got cooler. I made the mistake of not harvesting the mature stalks before the deep freeze here in East Texas where it got down in the teens and lost most of those stalks. The plants all survived but I had to go and cut them back after a week or so and I could tell what stalks were dead and what might’ve survived. Basically they looked like a celery plant with cut off outer stalks and fresh green leaves in the middle (kind of like when you regrow one from the store). They’ll grow back and the celery from the store that I planted in that same bed were totally unaffected by the freeze. I wish I had thought to cover the bed though and saved myself the loss of those beautiful mature stalks! I had planted new celery seedlings direct sow also this fall and those seeds popped up right away, as in within a week!😱I was shocked! Those did fine through the freeze also. I think I’ll have some more yummy celery to look forward to this year! My trick has been to plant them direct sow. I’ve never had any luck planting in a tray and transplanting them. 🤷🏻♀️ I’m in zone 9a now btw. Last frost date in mid to late March. I finally got a greenhouse so I’m excited to have gotten my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants all started already in the greenhouse with heat mats. Some have sprouted already. Very exciting!
I have never had issues with celery as long as we transplanted established plants by late spring..
In my experience Celery likes boggy condition, clay soil. I planted once let some go to seed and they keep coming back in the walkway next to my raised beds. They are in a shady area of my garden, but they survive through the summer fairly well and we are in 90's most of July & Aug.
Thank you for another great video filled with details as usual. You caught me off guard to be honest so I had to get out my seeds and get things in order to prepare for germination. I’m in south central Pennsylvania in zone 6B and my last frost is around May 10th. Time to get busy! Thank you and I hope you all harvest a pile of tasty homegrown goodness.
We are in zone 5, however I always, always appreciate your material. But today (call me silly) I want to really praise you for knowing how to pronounce February. You get five gold stars!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Im in 6a/b and we can still get cold snaps through all of April. So for us, I plan to plant warm weather plants the week after mother’s day as long as the 10 day forecast looks good.
For celery, i saw a REALLY cool reel about a farmer using incandescent Christmas bulbs under the frost cover for some of their otherwise frost tolerant plants. Looked so cool!!
Tomato, peppers ,eggplant ,ground cherries, night shade transplant beers ,radish carrots parsnip, turnips (direct sown) cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower,kale, Swiss Chard, collard's, mustard green (directly from transplant) celery,peas ,leaf lettuce, broccoli,arugula (direct sown) Basil parsley, cilantro, coriander,dill, onions bunching onions , garlic (needs cool chilll hrs) shallots,leeks , warm season lettuce (romaine)
I'm picking my winter brassica's and transplanting my spring brassicas tomorrow.
Thank you for very nice guide! I moved from CA, zone 9, which is high desert to KY, zone 6b. I wish to share my experience with celery - in high desert it was growing like a weed all year around. Celery stalks, not roots. It was flowering, then seeds felt into the soil and new plants start growing without additional care. After 5 years I had area around old celery plant with all new celeries which pushes away grass. 🤷♀. It will be my first spring season in KY🙂
You got a lot to share. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Would love if you shared a calendar of everything you plant in Nc in a specific month
Oh, Dale! You're hilarious!!!!! Love that sweet boy:):):):)
I really like episode that recommend what to grow like this one. I also like tomato taste test video (that was how I discovered your channel) as well as mid season performance report or end of season review of different varieties of tomato or any other crops from some of your other videos too.
I am an urban gardener with no garden space tho, container gardening through and through. I am wondering if you would consider making a video on the varieties of the popular crops that gardeners with abundant space usually grow, that might work for urban container gardener like me. I feel like there ought to be at least few varieties out there that will do ok in container for every tomato, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, or even zucchini, etc.
Another common constraint among gardener with small space or in urban setting is that the amount of sunlight we get might not be ideal and there isn’t much we could do about it. So, recommendations on crops that would still perform ok without a lot of sun would be very helpful too.
Totally get it if that isn’t something you want to do, as your settings is vastly different. I just think there are a lot of urban gardeners out there that would benefit from such information. All of the videos I have found on the topic pretty much said to grow herbs and lettuce, and that’s that. I am already growing those and could use more challenge.
Either way, thanks for the video. Love Dale’s adventures!
Ps. I grow both baker creek’s Pink Chinese celery and Utah Giant celery, and Utah Giant is much easier to grow for me. Also, just FYI, Chinese celery’s culinary application is somewhat different from the standard celery (also casually referred to western celery according to my Asian family.)
Looks to me that Dale needs more toys. Apparently the 45,000 toys by his bed aren't enough. 😂
I'm so glad we got an appropriately sized toy box...
Great video, very informative. Also, thanks for including the different zones, the other YT gardening channels don't do that. Happy growing 💚
Easiest to grow celery. Buy it, save the stump, let roots grow in water in a cup. Then plant in soil.
Thank u for your video very helpful..
You’re welcome!