25 Veggies You Can Plant In March RIGHT NOW!
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this video, I share 25 veggies you can plant in March right now! March is crunch time for starting seeds, because now is when most of our favorite warm weather crops for our spring garden and summer garden are started. These are my favorite garden vegetables to plant in March!
All 25 of these crops you can start from seed in March, but whether you start seeds in early, middle or late March will depend on your climate and the days to maturity of the crop you're starting. This video contains a blend of vegetables best grown by starting seeds indoors and also by direct sowing outdoors. I break it all down for you in this video so it's easy to understand.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Vegetables To Start In March
0:30 Veggies 1-7
2:34 Veggies 8-9
5:11 Veggies 10-13
6:58 Veggies 14-16
9:10 Veggie 17
10:39 Veggies 18-19
12:08 Veggies 20-22
15:35 Veggies 23-25
18:26 Adventures With Dale
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If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share it to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 Vegetables To Start In March
0:30 Veggies 1-7
2:34 Veggies 8-9
5:11 Veggies 10-13
6:58 Veggies 14-16
9:10 Veggie 17
10:39 Veggies 18-19
12:08 Veggies 20-22
15:35 Veggies 23-25
18:26 Adventures With Dale
I live 30 minutes away from you maybe 40 I'm in Supply North Carolina Bolivia can I sew my cucumber tomato melons squash tomorrow by the end of this weekend since I couldn't get them until literally right now I have pumpkins that are just now coming up and my spring flowers are happening my blueberries are not blueberries yet I wasn't sure if I'm too late but that means I have absolutely nothing not even a radish can I sow them by this weekend and still get a good harvest
Really appreciate you putting out these videos as what we should plant this upcoming month vs what so many youtubers do in making a video about what they've ALREADY planted weeks before the video. it's a small thing but makes a big difference as a viewer in feeling like we're keeping up as new gardeners as opposed to feeling like we're always a step behind yall.
Thank you. I try to make these videos so they're ahead of time. It takes time to go get the seeds, mix, trays, etc. and get going, so if you aren't 2 weeks ahead of time, it doesn't really help people.
Don’t forget, this is for HIS growing zone! He lives in Zone 8 B I believe he has said. If you aren’t in Zone 8 B, reconsider. I’m in 7A and I don’t germinate most of these vegetables until early April at the earliest.
@@selecttravelvacations7472hardiness zones are not relevant to annual vegetable gardens. They are only relevant to perennials. When you start seed will not have anything to do with your hardiness zone. It's based on frost dates. My last frost date is within 3 weeks of Zone 7a. That fits more than comfortably into a month. Anything I start in the beginning of March, mostly everyone in Zone 6/7 should also be starting at some point in March.
My son is 7 and is very interested in having a garden. We struggle and I have EBT which I just learned I can buy seeds and plants with. This has been incredibly helpful. Starting a garden will be great learning for me and my son, we'll have fresh food, and be saving money! Exciting! ❤
Dont knock the dollar store for seeds if you are low on funds ..... starting from stratch is great!
Love the “what to plant monthly videos!” So helpful. Thank you!
You’re welcome! I am glad to hear you’re enjoying them.
may you have a blessed harvest!
Thank you! You, too!
Hey man! As a fellow Carolinian, I love your videos as both highly informative and highly relevant. I gotta tell ya, I'd just LOVE a video on what to direct sow in April for us late starters!
For those who just moved or are behind, don’t feel bad about going to your garden center and picking up grown plants! I’m moving soon so that’s what I will have go do. Let’s make this year the best gardening year yet!
I have already started all of my peppers and early tomatoes, and am starting the rest of my tomatoes this week. I am so excited! I plant leeks, garlic, and onions in my front yard because the foliage is so pretty, which frees up a lot of room in my big back garden
I think I have watched this video 5 times now and it wasn’t until the last time watching that I finally took notes on what to plant 😂
I would like to see a video of u walking around your garden and talking about your garden
7b and chives, bunching onions, thyme, oregano and strawberries have wintered well under feet of snow and months of -5 to -20C lows. I do put straw on the strawberries
Thanks for these type of videos! I find them extremely helpful.
You’re welcome! Glad I can help!
I'm 65 and been gardening with my family since I was a kid but I've learned so much from you. Thank you.
I'm learning a lot at 45 from him too. He's good for a Millennial. ;p
Hello from Union County! I started lots of seed in January, and some have already gone into the ground. If I can keep the squirrels from digging them up, I should have a great spring garden. Thanks for all the wonderful gardening knowledge. You've made it easy to want to try new varieties of things I've always grown. I kinda went a little tomato and pepper crazy this year. Not sure what I'm going to do with them all😆 My goal for 2024 is to have something in the garden all year round. I think I can do it using all your growing advice. Keep up the terrific video, I look for them each week! Love and hugs to sweet Dale!
Oh damn, those squirrels are digging in all my planted pots every year no matter what I do. God help us
We have had Sooo many squirrels all year ! The neighbors next door feed them PEANUTS. And where do the squirrels go to bury them? Here!! Not in their yard. They dug in all our big flower and tree pots, ruining flowers and dirt everywhere. My husband had to put small pavers around the plants so they can’t get in. It’s ridiculous. Now we want to start our vegetable garden. We have the plants, but we are going to have to build a structure with cattle panels and screen to keep pests out!! Here in Florida we also have raccoons, snakes, rats in the evening, and possums. A few years ago we were growing tomatoes and we came out one day to see a box TURTLE biting at our lower tomatoes through the chicken wire!
I appreciate the normal video thumbnail. I really get frustrated with ones where guys have a wicked fake shocked look or something on their face. A friendly engaging smile I'll take any day.
It's gotten harder to make these videos. There's so much content out there, it becomes difficult to grab attention. I think the thumbnails are only going to get crazier 😆
@@TheMillennialGardener It has to be a challenge to stand out, but your knowledge is so good and helpful anyone watching once will return. It amazes me your growing seasons as I live in New Hampshire and have such a short season but make it work. Your tomato trellis idea I used and love it, just may incorporate a Florida weave into it as well. Love the beard I'm jealous, and follically challenged, lol.
I just planted some Daikon Radishes today to try and already have basil plants going and ate a leaf yesterday and my cilantro in pots and the garden looks pitiful. My fig tree is budding so I`ll have to cover it soon I`m sure. My potatoes were planted 4-5 inches deep Feb 2 and are just now coming up. I planted three Scarlet Runner Pole Beans for the hummingbirds early to maybe get a jump start but saved my other seeds to plant later but have mainly been working on hauling in good dirt from the woods and testing it by planting/transplanting radish, carrot plants, green onions and turnip plants in it to see what they do to know what the soil needs. I hope my beets produce. So far I`ve only got one sweet pea but just planted more from a store package. I have about 8 leeks in a pot. Trying them this year. They`re doing well but are only about 8 inches tall. The birds or a squirrel has planted sunflower seeds EVERYWHERE around here from the seeds I give them. I saw them coming up even in the woods but I`1m growing them a huge patch this year.
Sounds like a good start. It’ll fill in quickly. Finally, the squirrels are doing some good work.
There are no hickory trees here that I can find anywhere but squirrels are planting them everywhere. The parent tree must be across the creek far away because there`s only pines, just a few oaks, sweetgum and persimmon on this land. I`ve looked with binoculars from the top of a hill and see no hickory trees at all but they`re coming up all over this area and I`m finding them buried when getting forest soil for my garden. The tree has to be several hundred yards away because I`ve searched 10 acres looking for it. It`s puzzling. @@TheMillennialGardener
It’s great having such quality content right down the road from me. Keep it up!
I appreciate it! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Your videos are always informative. I like seeing what other people do and there is always something to learn.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
I was an industrial real estate broker in Vancouver, Canada for 28 years and I swear that engineers are the most righteous people that I ever dealt with in business. It is no wonder that I love your channel. Thank you for all the wisdom, the time and the patience. You are knowledgeable and you are an excellent communicator. So, I wish to try to grow Okinawan sweet potatoes, Ben Yagi purple sweet potatoes, Stokes purple sweet potato or orange ones if all else fails. I called all the produce wholesalers in Vancouver last week and learned that no one carries Okinawan or Murasaki potatoes as they are "too expensive for the demand profile of the Vancouver marketplace". I guess when single detached 70 year old homes start at close to $2 million Canadian there isn't much money left over for food and fuel. So, I have one question. What is the shelf life of the different kinds of sweet potatoes that you have grown? In your March 2023 video, you said you had the "Murasaki slip starting potato" stored for six months, as of March 2023. That's impressive because I have been told about shelf lives of 2-4 weeks for these purple sweet potatoes. Before proceeding with a huge Summer 2024 purple sweet potato growing concept for the home garden, I want to ensure that I can store 100+ lbs of potatoes this Fall. Thank you for the time and the wisdom associated with your reply. Have a blessed weekend. Anthony
I'm zone 8a NC . My carrots did fantastic I planted in January. I do more of a grulla gardening method working on my food forest. Love your tips ❤
Carrots are year-round here in Zone 8. The best carrots are sown in late summer/start of fall for a winter harvest. The colder it is when carrots mature, the higher the sugar content, the lower the starch content.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for the tips hun
I’m from pittsboro NC!!! Thanks for this video!
Checking in just up the coast from you Carteret County. Life long resident and horticultural lover. Your content is really good and you have good knowledge of gardening and such.. it’s fun to follow along with the seasons just up the coast ! 🍻
I learned so much from you, thank you so much for all your videos I really appreciate it,. 🙏
Have a good harvest! Thank you for the work you put in every video.I will plant today a lot of seeds in our backyard garten. Blessings from Sarkeszi, Hungary☺️🥦🍉🍠🥕
I appreciate your videos. They are so helpful!
Thank you! I’m glad you like them!
Oh my, I love Dale! Thank you for your videos. I have learned a lot from you!
You’re welcome! I’m glad the videos are helpful.
GM Dale of NC ☕️☕️
I’m in the high desert of nw Nevada & woke up to snow ❄️ this morn 🤦🏼♀️ altho we’re in different climates I do learn many things from you & appreciate all the info you give us. Just gotta know your climate & planting season. My last frost is first part of June so I start indoors in April lol.
I ❤ your garden layout 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Great, helpful video! Thank you MG😊👍👍Dale is sweet🤗
You're welcome! Dale is 50% hound, but 100% ham.
Howdy, MG!👋 Dale is so patient with his dad.🐕 😄
Great list of what we can start in March. I purchased the Giant Cesar lettuce seeds. I'm going to grow it with Slobolt lettuce and see how long we can enjoy our homegrown lettuce in the warm weather. Continued happy gardening!💕
Dale is a houndy hound that loves hounding his dad, and I love dishing it back when he's trying to relax 😂 I always tell Brittany and Dale that the day I stop teasing you is the day I don't love you anymore 😆 When Brittany comes home from work, we gang up on Dale and bite his cheeks from both sides and he's in absolute heaven. He just loves it, even when he pretends he doesn't.
You are going to like Giant Caesar. It's the best romaine I've ever grown. I urge you to invest in shade cloth, though. The difference it makes come May is enormous.
@TheMillennialGardener Y'all are cute!😄
I've been using shade cloth for 3 years...like you say, it's a game changer.😃 I'm in Central Texas...it gets hot and dry here.
Hahah "what's growing on!?" Love the intro I always excitedly say it when I'm in my car listening to your videos. Love all your videos just recently subscribed
Thank you for subscribing! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying the videos.
Thank you for your clear advice about gardening 👩🌾 I am a beginner first year gardener 🙏 I am researching about everything to do my best
I’m loving the timely videos. I’m in MA so I’m about 3-4 weeks behind what you’re doing. Very informative ❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks I have radishes up already have good day
Nice!
Thanks for all the info.
You're welcome!
The only improvement you could make to your channel for me is if you moved to Bowling Green KY show I wouldn't have to do so many mental gymnastics. Other than that love your channel and trust it more than any others.
I don't think I'll ever relocate to a higher latitude 😂 But Kentucky's a great state for growing. I'm probably 3 weeks ahead of you in the winter and 3 weeks behind you in the fall. My timeline will get you in the ballpark, but I recommend you keep a journal and log your dates. Write them down, then fine-tune them. It's taken me nearly 7 years to figure out timing of my crops here in NC.
@@TheMillennialGardener Just saw this post while listening to Old Kentucky Farmers by Russel Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out.. Thank you Bowling Green for Bill Monroe et al.
I just bought seeds for the Red Fire lettuce because it looked like a lettuce that survived winter. It came from a lettuce mix so I didn't know the variety. Hearing you say how cold hardy they are, I'm more confident it's the same variety.
It is cold hardy, but you’ll want it to be established before it gets very cold with regular hard freezes.
You are the closest RUclipsr to my area that I can find. Really appreciate your videos. Watching from Grifton NC, near Greenville. Great channel.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching!
Love your videos.
Thank you! I appreciate it.
Your information is FANTASTIC!!! Thank you!! Just moved here from the Midwest and am now clueless!!!🤷🏼♀️
Glad it was helpful!
Jealous of that Dwarf! I’ll be starting my tomatoes this week in the greenhouse. Why I got 18 different tomato seeds beats me 😂. Zone 6 in CT. I had started the peppers and eggplants in first week of February and the germination has been fabulous. Did my onion, shallots, and leeks in January. I thinking of waiting for my melons and squashes for another couple weeks? Maybe 3. Still loving that Red Fire lettuce!
I'm sticking that tomato in ground this weekend. I'm taking the risk. Things look weirdly mild into mid-March, so I'm rolling the dice!
Thanks for your timely videos. I'm frequently recommending you to friends.
I wonder what you do with your harvests. Surely it is more than your household can use and it seems to be even more than you could give to neighbors and friends.
We're a little behind you in our zone but it's nice to be able to plan ahead with these videos
So informative.
Glad it was helpful!
I appreciate your short versions of what temps/ frost/heat certain multiple plants cant handle instead of do this in zone 9, dont do that zone 6...its difficult to judge when you are in a microclimate close to a large lake ( Lake Erie) when it totally changes your zone from year to year depending how warm the summer has been or how much ice up it has during winter as the colder then normal lakes tend to radiate more cold later into the spring. Appreciate your videos!
Great video!!! Dale knows how to ham it up. So cute!!!! 😂😂😂😂
He's such a hound. I don't know how else to explain it.
I planted peas in late fall. They came up and have just sat a little above the soil surface even during very cold temperatures in zone 6. They look great, hope they continue to grow well. I’m hoping they have built a strong root system in the meantime. With plastic cover, leeks, swiss chard, corn salad and radicchio have been slowly chugging along during winter. Self sown and direct sown seeds are starting to germinate…can’t wait to see things growing on.
That is shocking. 17 degrees obliterated my peas. Dead as a doornail, as they say.
@@TheMillennialGardener The variety is ‘Alaska’ so maybe that has something to do with it 🙃❄️ And the fact that they were able to acclimate over time, maybe? 🤷♀️ I’ve never done this before, so it is still an experiment. But the plants are still very much alive. I’m anticipating that with next week’s warm temperatures they’ll really jump.
Helpful info on tomato temp tolerance!!
Glad I could help!
Oh, great info on Romaine lettuce! Just bought some organic sweet potatoes to grow my own slips - I’ve not had good success when buying slips as they seem to rot within hours (ugh). I understand use of a heating pad might speed up the slip production…..hmmm. So much to learn and I feel very disorganized in my veg planning. Thanks for your video instruction! 👍🏻
Your slips are probably rotting because it's too cold yet. Sweet potatoes want 80 degree days and 60 degree nights. They're the last thing I plant in my garden. The more heat and humidity you give a sweet potato, the happier they are. If you put on a t-shirt and walk outside and you're cold, it's too cold for sweet potatoes!
OMG.... that tomato plant looks gorgeous, I'm jealous!!! I live in East coast. I can't wait to start germinating my Paul Davison's😂😅
I have Green onions all year round since I cook Green onions almost daily. Haven't bought from stores for 3 years now. It's get super Green and huge when it's cold not so much when 90 or above temperature. Also my Basil. My Celintro is bulting right now lol. Did well in the winter zone 9
Thank you for taking time to share your planting plans. What mulch do you use on your raised beds? It looks like wood chips and straw. Where do you source them? Thank you again!
I just put 3 tomato plants out last week. I want to see how well they will do. I’m pretty sure we are into spring weather. Central TX zone 8B or whatever the new zone is 🤷♂️
very good info!!
Glad it was helpful!
I just found your channel and had already started my snow peas inside. They seem to be very happy & are growing much faster than I was expecting. I live in SC, and was planning on transplanting them next weekend. Is there anything more I should know, now that I know I should have direct sown them?
Come on buddy let's do something fun this year, I just started germinating my 1,600lb, pumpkin seeds. It's perfect time for you to start shopping. Maybe a little bit of healthy competition will get your blood pumping!
No pumpkins. They don’t really grow here. You’d need a hoop house or extensive protection. I experiment with zone pushing more than practically any other channel, but southern weather with our short summer days and insect pressure is not conducive to large cucurbits.
Yes true on most points, but the state record is over 1000 lbs, and with. 2000 lb seed, you are still going to get a monster. Whether you try to or not. I've got similar problems here on Gulf Coast of Texas, but if you start early it's still fun and doable to get a 500+ lber
Great video
Thanks!
I will follow you to learn more thanks 🙏
I appreciate it!
I started my tomato while ago but need to up pot them as all of my seeds germinated in my little solo cups so now they need more room! I think it might be a good year for tomatoes! My last frost date is March 6th so I’m getting ready to plant these babies out side soon. Still they need more room in their little pots. Maybe I’ll just put them into 6” pots and see how they do. I’m so excited for tomatoes this year! My peppers have barely germinated so far but I did get lots of shishitos and jalapeño peppers to germinate and only one bell pepper plant. Weird! Maybe they didn’t like my heat mat in the greenhouse. It’s been between 70 and 85 here in east Texas this last week but it is still dipping down into the upper 40’s at night so I’m waiting to plant them out until later when they get a bit bigger and stronger. I’m so excited for spring this year! I’ve already got bean plants sprouting out in the garden and potatoes popping up. I’ve had no luck growing peas this spring because I have a small mouse problem and they went and ate all my seeds from the ground! 🤦🏻♀️ Nonetheless this Spring is already so much fun. 😊
I find it interesting that you wait on peas.... Ive been looking at what I can plant in northern Indiana, and most people are saying I should be planting peas 60 days before last frost so it stays cool enough to actually get a harvest. Planning to plant next week and succession sowing for a few weeks.
I agree about tomato seed or nightshade seed germination times, but in my experience that applies to purchased seed. When I save seed, my saved seeds germinate very fast, I think in under a week for sure. They seem much more vigorous.
I have not found that to be the case. Tomato seed on a heat mat starts germinating in as little as 3-4 days, and 80% of my cells will have something germinating within 7 days. Now, I have found that once the seed hits 2-3 years old, it takes more like 10-14 days. But, seed packed for the same season always tends to germinate very fast. I would guess it appears that way because you're using brand new seed versus an older seed packet.
Yes, you're right, fresh seed matters whether home saved or purchased. I think it can reduce germination time quite a lot if the seed is fresh. Not sure many people pay attention to that aspect of their purchased seeds.@@TheMillennialGardener
Thanku I just started my tomato seeds I’m in zone 5
You’re welcome!
Hey Whats growing on sir! how are you today?
I have a question and suggestion for a video.
If you had to choose a tomato variant for tomato soup.
Which one would it be?
Perhaps a top 3?
Comparing taste - and yield from the plant.
You could actually make two videos about it.. first you talk about it and then when the plants you chose is ready, then you actually make the tomato soup and see if you was right about it :)
Hi! I'm near raleigh area and am starting our first garden in NC. I was going to make an earth garden bed since the soil is so well draining here. But I see you mostly have all raised beds vs. Earth beds. So now I'm wondering if I should do raised vs. Earth? Any suggestions? I'm curious as well why you have raised vs. Earth? We'll grow tomatoes, peppers, carrots, potatotes, cucumbers, blueberries, strawberries, and sunflowers. Also would love to grow watermelon, cantaloupe and pumpkins if we have the space. Thank you!!!
Trying something new this year here in Wisconsin. Using a grow tent early in one section of my raised bed garden. I also want to extend my growing season. Any thoughts from anyone who's used one in the past?
THANK YOU FOR THE INFO. How did you save that Okinawan plant over the winter. I cut some vines from my harvest and put them in water to try and save over the winter but they died. Was I supposed to cut the vines and put them in soil? Please help I do not want to buy slips or start all over with tubers every year.
Such a sweet boy ❤
Dale is the best 🐶
For us up north, wait on vine plants until April. They really don't transplant well. If you start in March, you're going to have to deal with unruly plants. Tomato grows like weeds, i find anything over 6 weeks suffer shock and not easy to maintain.
I enjoy your videos finding them educational. How does SE North Carolina coast growing conditions compare to a zone 8b?
Thanks! Hardiness zones are ultimately irrelevant for vegetable gardens. I'm in Zone 8b, but so is southern Utah, Portland, OR, and Seattle. Despite us all being in 8b, our growing conditions are absolutely nothing alike. Zones are only relevant to the cold hardiness of fruit trees and perennials. The growing conditions here in coastal NC are very difficult from Memorial Day to late September, and our Januaries are also very difficult. We have to grow on shoulder seasons here when temperatures and rainfall moderate, we don't get tropical storms and we aren't killed with insects.
My question is, are Romaine lettuces the only variety that can tolerate spring / summer temperatures?
Hope your garden is bountiful this season. 😊
I've got to get going on starting seeds. Do you start your tomato in starting mix or potting soil? I'm in nc
I’m about 90 minutes south of you in North Eastern coastal South Carolina, growing zone 8b. This year we are going to try and direct sew sweet corn. Do you have any thoughts or advice? Thanks.
I just wanna give a shoutout to Tuck ❤ i love that little guy O wait Wrong channel ….Wow this is good stuff i grew Last year Dale… dale is a good boy 😂
😅😅😅
I'm sure they'd be friends if they ever met.
starting melons in March?
Not in Zone 6, I only just started my indoor seedlings for tomatoes eggs and peppers!
I do want to plant some chard and other hardy cold things now that the soil is barely unfrozen.
Starting melons in late March means transplanting around May 1st. That's exactly on target for cooler climates. If you can't get your melons out by May 1, you're going to struggle getting them to ripen and will probably have to resort to techniques like lining an area with black plastic/weed fabric to attract heat or grow smaller/earlier melons. Places where it frosts into May aren't well-suited for melons and it becomes challenging.
👍👍hugs to Dale
Dale sends his love 🐶
I live in Missouri and have planted (outside no greenhouse) My earliest plants on Feb 1st the last five years now (counting this year). Have not had a crop failure yet. Peas, radishes, lettuce. This years batches have not succumbed to the frost yet, even two days of 25 degree mornings followed by three mild frosty ones. .
San Diego residents hearing all these cold advisals and just waiting for him to move on with the video. 😊
It's always tough to make a video that applies to everyone with such a diverse climate. Hopefully, it's applicable to 95% of the folks that watch.
@@TheMillennialGardener It's a great video. I understand. Good luck this garden season!
Epic Gardening may have a climate more like yours. Though I follow Gardener's from around the globe. Always love learning new techniques and plant varieties!
buy many discounted seed packets of cilantro when they are on sale and past their "grow by" date! I had seeds allover my yard for years and they always came back of their own accord in November (Zone 8)
Cilantro are good self-seeders. I always let mine go to seed and some will start randomly sprouting in October when the nights finally cool off.
I’m a little worried. The last time my area had an El Niño with such a dry winter (southern Minnesota) was 1998. We had 54 tornadoes in the month of March alone that year and soooooo much rain
put out my tomatoes this late march my tomatoes and they got hit with an unexpected frost so i wasn’t able to cover them. all but one seem to be unsalvageable. gonna get a quick batch started and hopefully will be okay
Curious thoughts on if it's better to top dress soil now or wait until closer to spring planting?
I have a video dedicated to this subject here: ruclips.net/video/Gk1a1MHL1ws/видео.htmlsi=8xc0ANK-fw7JhYgq
Daddy always said u can’t get a tomato befor July 4 in eastern nc
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What % shade cloth would U recommend 4 a zone 7 area 2 start growing Onions & Watermelon?
At this time of year, you don't need shade cloth. In the heat of the summer, I use 40%. The product I recommend is linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description.
I keep getting bit by these videos and there is no way I can start most of this yet. 😂
I am so jealous of you tomato seedling. Mine are about two inches... do you fertilize them?
I started those seedlings around Christmas as an experiment. I put them in ground today. I have never seen a March forecast this mild at night in the 7 years I have lived here, so I'm going to take a risk. You may or may not like my answer. Because I start my seedlings indoors, I do not treat them organically, because all my organics stink, and I'm not stinking up my office and sunroom. I give them diluted Jack's 20-20-20. That stuff is absolute magic and stink-free.
I need a planting advisor who has snow on the ground like I do. Not shoveling my garden beds to plant today!
My beets started growing at the same time as my celery. Try planting your celery in ground with your beets and cover them with your frost protection if you want, but plant them as you would your early beets and see what happens for your celery direct sown.
I think I'm going to do something crazy and plant my celery under shade cloth, try and get them through the summer and see what happens. Celery has been a tough code to crack here.
I'm in 8 b too. They do ok overwintering here in my garden. I know you've mentioned you've had a hard time with celery so that's why I mention you might want to try it earlier like you talked about your beets in this video. My celery is the same size as my beets out in my garden right now. Love your videos. You do a great job.
Can these still be planted indoors now in zone 5A?
I’m growing ground cherries from seed for the first time, and I’m finding they are much harder to germinate than peppers and tomatoes on a heat pad. Are they really so slow to germinate?
They are hard to germinate because of how small they are. You want to plant 6-10 seeds per cell. They need warm and to be covered very lightly. If you bury them deeply, they won’t germinate. Be careful with ground cherries. They drop incredible amounts of fruit and will come back in that spot for years. Isolate them.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks for these tips. I’ve got some seeds this year and look forward to tasting them.
I mean that first batch of stuff you mentioned. Haha, funny that the thing with "berry" in the name isn't a berry at all.
Have you ever considered trying to grow a heat tolerant tomato like the Solar Fire?
All I grow are heat tolerant tomatoes, except for the early tomatoes I set out early in containers or freeze protect. I've grown about 200 tomato varieties since moving to NC in search of finding truly heat tolerant tomatoes. The truth: zero beefsteak/slicing tomatoes are heat tolerant. Some are just a little better than others. The only truly heat tolerant tomatoes are a handful of hybrid cherry and plum types, at least so far.
I got my butternut squash started at the end of january. I transplanted them outside directly into my compost pile thats been hanging at about 80 degrees. So far it looks like i cheated an extra 4 weeks for squash
Squash seeds in January. You must be in a warm climate 😂
@TheMillennialGardener oh yeah. Zone 8b, south alabama. I got them started for a week inside and as long as they're on the compost the air temp hasn't dropped before 50 since I put them out
I'm confused about when to plant. It's still in the mid to upper 40s at night, several weeks after last frost. I'm thinking I'll put them inside on the colder nights as transplant. I'm in California zone 9b. Any suggestions?
Planting dates are based on frost date, not zone. Hardiness zones are only relevant to perennials. What you plant and when is based on the hardiness of the plant, days to maturity and fine tuning over time.
I think he might have meant starting them inside?
I thought starting 200ish tomatoes with the goal of selling most of them would be a good idea. "Fun", I said. Lol. I'm not even done up-potting the original seedlings, yet the ones Ive already potted up are gigantic and need potted up a second time. They're everywhere. And thrips found them somehow. Overwhelmed is an understatement. Or maybe I'm just slow 🤷🤦🏻
I see so many people already have cucurbits that trying to flower in small pots cause they thought they should same time as tomatoes and peppers
That's probably the #1 mistake people make, unfortunately. Not all warm weather plants should be started at the same time. I just made a video on this subject here: ruclips.net/video/-DfsdXBtHSI/видео.htmlsi=yujPwCd7kf-vOs78
I am only asking because we live in the same Zone and 30 minutes away from each other I couldn't get my seeds until today I live in Supply North Carolina can I direct sow my squash seeds and melon seeds my pumpkins are just coming up but since I wasn't able to get my seeds until right now can I sew them and get a harvest since we're in the same Zone literally 30 minutes away from each other
What should the ph be for planting seeds? Also the ph of my garden when I transplant?
Almost all garden vegetables like neutral to slightly acidic pH. That will be 6.5-7.
Can u grow romaine lettuce from the stumps of the roaine lettuce u get atthe grocery store? Or other veggies,too? Thanx
I'm not going to say that you can't, because I've cut my romaine lettuce back and they do try to re-sprout from the base. However, they don't grow right after being cut back. I would advise you don't waste your time and just start seed. Romaine seed is some of the cheapest stuff out there and it's at every big box store right now. You can re-grow some vegetables from stumps like leeks, green onions, pineapple and some others.
I've got beautiful romaine growing from stumps. I put them in a window in water until the new plant growth is about 3 to 4 inches tall then I replant.
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What type of tomatoes produce the biggest yields and dont over grow your hoop houses?
That is an absolutely loaded question that is like asking what is the best flavor of ice cream. If you want an extremely productive tomato that won't get taller than ~4 feet, look into Celebrity (heat tolerant beefsteak), Bella Rosa (heat tolerant beefsteak), Siletz (cool tolerant slicer), and Legend (cool tolerant slicer).
Planting in March if you're in the zone 8
Planting in March means 95% of the population of the US. March is a long month. Planting near the end of March means seedlings ready in May.