Planting Onions, Cabbage, and Gladiolus 3 Weeks Before Last Frost
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- I am out planting some my cold hardy vegetables and corms into my raised bed garden. Onions and cabbage can take frosty temperatures and are great plants to get started in the garden early. The cabbage will enjoy a little less pest pressure being planted early before the cabbage moths and their larvae are out in the garden. Onions like a long growing season and are happy to be out in the garden early. Gladiolus corms can be planted out up to a month before your average last frost if the soil is workable and not water logged.
I grow flowers and vegetables in Saskatchewan, Canada. My cold hardiness zone is zone 4. I have an average of 110 frost free growing days each year. The past few years have seen our temperatures go as low as -37C (-34.6F) to as high as 37C (98.6F). Come see what and how I grow in these conditions.
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Howdy-ho Prairie Plantgirl and sunbathing Buster.👋
Sweet planting of beauty and good eats!😃
It's nice to see your garlic is coming up. Hopefully, you'll have a sweet harvest of nice sized bulbs.👍
Today, I'm taking shade cloth down...we put it up due to a threat of hail yesterday and overnight.
Our house hasn't sold; thus, I haven't planted any melon transplants or seeds. I'm glad I can plant melons and squash twice in our growing season. 👩🏾🌾
My cosmos and zinnias are blooming. I have tomatoes, okra, peaches, grapes, and peppers growing.
I gave the chocolate mint a big haircut (#2 this year).
The first planting of popcorn is 2 feet tall.
The last thing to wake up around here are my Elephant Ears...they are finally up and growing.😃
I plan on picking up sweet potato vine starts to plant in the containers with the elephants.
Continued fun times in the garden!💕
Good thinking to use the shade cloth for hail protection! I’m assuming you didn’t have any damage. Keep enjoying your garden time! Hopefully the house sells soon for you.
@@PrairiePlantgirl No damage.😃
Ok. I take my cabbage and onion seedlings outside to plant, come in to relax and have lunch, well obviously I have to watch this.
Perfect!
Right behind you! I'll plant out onions next week!
Awesome!
I had a ruff start in the onion dept. The seed didn’t keep for a year. I bought new of same and all varieties but one were bad germination. 😂I had More than enough because I wasn’t saving them over again. I have 3-4” pots of 3 varieties that are full, too full actually. Next year I will need to sow more thinly or pot up because they really don’t grow too thick if crowded. I plant a lot of onions and still have some fresh and frozen to get me through.
I’ve realized we don’t need a lot of cabbage all at once as there is only so much that can be done with it. I make some kraut and coleslaw. Trying early planting under low tunnels and it’s been going well. Trying to get Pak Choi and Napa cabbage to the finish line. And a Big Yes to bug netting. I like growing brassicas in our couple of dedicated clay beds as they like heavy soil.
Sure hope the weather stays warm as I’m planting out the earliest I’ve ever planted. Sneaking in a bit of sowing seeds and getting some of those plants out of the GH. The plants want out of pots and I’m done babysitting.
I think tomorrow the summer bulbs are going in and I might test a few peppers as well.
Bought a potted peach tree today. Hope this variety will survive. Two miles away I grew them with no problems. 🤷♀️. It will be my 4th attempt and I’m done if this one doesn’t take.
We had rain this morning then cloudy-perfect time to plant.
Everything is so pretty this spring!! I’m finding more surprise plants and one I can’t remember what it was. Oh well, it’ll be another surprise 😂.
This is always such a busy exciting time in the garden. Babysitting plants can become too much - sometimes they just need to go out and learn to survive!
Thank you so much for this video. Now I feel ready to plant my onion seedlings. I planted my Kelsae onion seeds shortly after you planted your onion seeds. They look ready. I have been hardening them for a couple of weeks. By the way, three days ago, I finally dug out my old, overgrown coral bells and planted my seedlings in their place. They look pretty happy in the ground. My pepper seedlings that I grew indoors from seeds, are already one foot tall and blooming. I was planning to plant them in the same raised bed as the onions, in alternate rows. But I don't know if the overnight temps of 9 - 12 C will be warm enough for the pepper plants. For the last week, I have been leaving them in my very light-duty cold frame even through the night. Today, I saw the first bumble bee pollinating my earliest blooming blueberry bushes and a honey bee working on my red currant blossoms. I figured that today would be a good day to remove my Mason bee cocoons from the fridge and put them in their bee house, so they could emerge from their cocoons within the next couple of days. May is such a busy and exciting month for us gardeners.
I would put my pepper plants out if my nighttime temperatures are there. If you are very nervous put a light sheet or frost cover over them the first few nights to help them acclimate. I assume the soil is comfortable to put your hand into the depth you will plant your peppers. If the soil is cold then a bit of plastic over it for a few sunny days should help warm it up.
@@PrairiePlantgirl The peppers and onions will be planted on the footprint of my 2 portable cold frames. The soil in that (very sunny) location is warmer than any other part of my veggie garden. Where do you buy the sheets of frost cover? I have never used one. Is it light enough that it can sit right on top of the plants without breaking them?
looking good. Here in Ontario, the mild winter made the garlic start coming up in January! The looked a little worse for wear by March, but gave them some chicken manure and they are growing well, with thick stems. Will give them some P,K focused fertilizer later this month and should be good!
When you have large fluctuations in temperature over winter a heavy mulch can be helpful. After the ground is frozen add the mulch. It will help keep the ground cold even in warm spells. Make sure to remove the mulch in spring to allow the soil to warm up. You can put it back in place once the weather is hot again to conserve moisture.
Thank you. I have never planted onions.
Give them a try!
I usually plant my dahlias on Victoria Day weekend, but this year I am tempted to plant them a bit sooner, around Mother's Day.
You could always cover them if you are going to have a light frost. Harden them off well before you put them out.
@@PrairiePlantgirl I don't do any pre-sprouting. I just take them out of the garage, where I store them over the winter and plant them directly into the ground. So I don't need to harden them. They take about 2 weeks to poke through the ground and start growing.
Nice
The best trick I have found to separate my onion starts is to soak them in a bucket of water. I shake them in the water and that works great. Give it a try.
Edit: I see after I wrote this (while listening) you had a note in the video.
Water works well for separating tangled roots.
Nice onion starts! Do you fertilize them? If you do with what and how often? Mine never look that good so I’m still learning.
I give all my seedlings feedings every 1-2 weeks of Promix root boost until they move out to the greenhouse. After that they get whatever water-soluble fertilizer I have out there. Something higher in phosphorus (the middle number) is preferable for onions in my opinion.
New Sub here from Ontario. Hello!
I was noticing in your 4x8 beds you have a drip irrigation system installed. I looked through your videos really quick and didn’t see a video regarding the drip system, did I miss it?
I am planning the same 1/4 system. You didn’t use a 1/2” header. Do all your tubes have emitters or is some not drip? How long are your drip runs ? Do all of the long runs get water in the middle - enough pressure?
Nice informative video
These are run off of modified above ground spray heads. I have solid 1/4” lines from the corner posts (where the spray heads were), then drip lines run in the beds. Prior to last year I had 1/4” weeping tubes instead of the drip. I switched to the drip because the weep lines tend to crack and break. I feel the weep lines gave more even watering through the beds. I have a 4 lines of drip run the long way in each bed and they are connected at the ends with approximately 3feet of drip tube. I would recommend running 1/2” lines to each bed and connecting the 1/4” lines at the bed. I think that would provide more even pressure to each bed. One day I will change mine out to that. I hope this makes sense and is helpful.
Let us know how your cherries do this year. I didn't know you could get cabbage that small.
Will do!
I'm a onion beginner and not sure if it's warm enough yet. Saw another channel soak onions sprouts in water first. Heard recently the soil temperature triggers carrots onions broccoli etc bolt so need to change gears.
I’ve been planting my onions into cool soil for years. Bolting has not been a problem. I think the soaking is if you receive starts in the mail or need help separating the seedlings. Onions are fairly fuss free. Try a few now and a few later and see what works best where you are. My onions were covered in snow yesterday morning and I am not concerned at all.
Onion sets and overwintered onions will bolt/flower as they are biannuals. Seed started onion plants do not bolt. They need to get planted because as of summer solstice they start to bulb. The size of the onion depends how many fronds were able to grow before that stage. Purchased onion plants some people soak a bit before planting. It’s not necessary though as long as they stay moist once planted.
Thanks PPG. I planted cabbage seed last week, a little late but that's OK. I started my seeds on the new moon. I'm trying planting by the lunar calendar this yr. Just to see if there's a difference. I very curious what you have going on in those milk jugs?
The milk jugs are winter sowing. As far as I can tell the only one that took is purple coneflower. I’ve never had much success with winter sowing.
@@PrairiePlantgirlthe last two years WS has been difficult in Z5a, WI. I since figured out I’m doing spring sowing. I sow in early March and set on east side of house. When temps regulate in April I moved them to south side of GH. I had great success this year. The hot winters with rain either rotted the seeds or they germinated and froze. They could have baked also it was so hot.