Getting Ready for Spring | Gardening Guide & Seeding Tips
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The 2024 garden season is officially underway, as we pot up our first batch of plants we started from seed a few weeks ago. These are broccoli and cabbages that I started, which are now ready for their new expanded home. During our time together, I will share with you all of the things that are going through my head as we head into the growing season. Some are things to watch out for, some are things to prepare now so you're ready, and a few others are supplies you may want to purchase now so you have them when you need them. This is my I think 4th year starting my own plants for the garden from seed, and I love sharing what I've learned so far with you guys. If you have any specific questions I didn't answer in the video, post them in the comments and I'll do my best to try to get back to you ♥
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Vinegar water in a spray bottle takes care of slugs. My husband teased me horribly the year that I tried mulching cabbage with straw as it drew a ton of slugs. He thought that me going out in the dark with a flashlight and squirt bottle was hilarious! I save the straw for potatoes now.
I'm always so excited when springtime finally arrives so that I can start seedlings! You should consider a soldering iron to make those holes in your cups. The small ones are typically under $20 and burn through that plastic like butter, which I feel helps preserve the integrity of the cups longer so you can get another season out of them. I also use mine to make holes in the bottom of milk jugs for winter sowing drainage. Cheers!
Just a hand drill and small bit .
A soldering iron really does work best for this, I've tried the drill bit and it tends to Crack the cups.
Heat a big nail over a flame. Stack cups and do many at a time. 🤷🏼♀️
MIgardner has a great way to start onions by seed.😊 they don't take a lot of room the way he does it.
Dixondale onions are excelent! Be sure to buy the correct "day length" variety for your location.I am trying something new. Starting 200 Beefstake tomatoes to give out at our local food pantry. If they all do well, that will produce 5,000 pounds of food. Bonus is the opportunity for some folks to be introduced to gardening.
I’ve followed migardener’s onion seed starting method and it’s yet to fail me. I get a one of those sturdy plastic to go containers (reuse!) and put seed starting mix in it and just dump the packet of seeds in. I get like 50-70 little sprouts in that one 6x6 container. And I will take it outside fairly early because they can withstand low temps. Once they get a little more sturdy I’ll transplant them.
Always great to have extra plants in case they fall to an untimely death... So glad you are back in the garden again . Welcome back.
Ours are planted and growing like Crazy!!! It's been cold for the last few days!!! Not cold enough to freeze anything just cold!!! I'm very very happy to have a gsrden again!!! I'm not just growing in containers on my patio!!! Thank goodness!!! God Bless Us All!!!
Exciting time. We have all ours in garden already. One lucky thing we in climate we have way more growing seasons. Tuesday we get to plant all our garden plants out.. good luck on your growing season.
I winter sow in jugs outside my onion seeds and they do awesome. Same with my brassicas. They start to come up right on time when it’s time to put them in the garden and they’re already hardened off. :)
I would love to see a video of you canning up greens🫸🏻🫷🏻
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Broccoli is ALWAYS trying to stretch its a relentless plant lol unless you have the lights literally almost on top of them they stretch. I found some articles and videos showing that broccoli would grow roots along the stem when buried deep like tomatoes, basically its like a 60-70% chance it will do that so , some do some don't. I have all of my seeds started other than the heat lovers like beans and cucurbits lol our zones are shifting here in Canada as well, it hasnt been updated yet but id say we are about a month ahead of schedule here. Ive had my baby cabbages outside in their pots for a week or so now and one night I thought I killed them, the soil in the pots froze solid but theyre still alive and well so ya that was a shock.
Last season I had baby earwigs in my cabbages!! Lost 6 plants to them.
You can start like 30-40 onions per pot, they seperate easily and have no issues growing together for the first 3 months or so
I start hundreds of onions every January in one of the large grocery store strawberry clamshell containers. There's really nothing else started inside while I have those going and by the time I need the space for other things, the onion container is fine to go outside into the cold frame. This is one big money saving crop to do from seed and I get to try many different kinds that they don't sell as bulbs.
I started a few seeds already. I am just putting them in the south facing window bc I don't have a grow light setup.
MIGardener has a really great way to do onions from seed. He starts them really close because the roots are so easy to tease apart.
Rough start some damping off... ugh!
I enjoyed spending this time with you as you worked with your garden seedlings. You gave us a wealth of gardening wisdom as you got your work done. Thank you for sharing. ❤
Spring in Texas was about 4 weeks ago. I spent most of the day weeding. LOL gotta love a garden.
I'm always interested in how you garden and store your vegetables.
Thank for sharing
Cabbage is stupendous.
With it one makes KIMCHI!
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I interplant companion flowers that repel the moths. I forgot the name… and watch closely. I don’t mind sharing a bit with the bugs ☺️
We are potting up some of our seedlings now!
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I like to plant seeds in milk jugs, cut in half. I put potting soil in the bottom half, stab holes in the bottom of the jug and plant many seeds in them. My driveway has multiple milk jugs out in the sun with tomatoes, peppers, onions, flowers…It works like a terrarium. I’ve seen people keep their milk jugs out in the snow, but we don’t get much snow in south Texas. Thanks for these videos, even though I’m ahead of you in planting, you give some good tips!
I like your notebook, where did you get it?
Onions are perfect for Winter Sowing. I start a jug or 2 of onion seeds in February. You can densely sow them, and they separate easily for planting.
What do you do next after you harvest your sweet potato slips? Do you put them into potting cups?
I started 27 cabbage (3 varieties) that have already been potted up and I'm hardening them off. Ordered some agro-covers to keep the insects off. The onions started from seed are also getting hardened off. I'll plant peas soon, probably this weekend. I will plant those cabbage here in zone 5b soon and don't worry about frost because they actually like the cooler weather. I have grown them in the snow before and it was my best year ever. Less pest pressure too. My garden is 25ft. long so I think I'll get two rows. Planning to ferment and make sauerkraut. You are correct about those covers. Need to make sure there are no entry points for those little moths to get into them. I'm glad to hear your review for those zip up covers. My frost covers are a little dingy too and I'll use them on the really cold nights. I'm growing spinach for sure. Potatoes will go in a week later like your schedule. Thanks for sharing.
My seedlings are looking so good in the house. I really want to plant my cabbages in the garden this weekend to avoid up-potting. I cover my cabbages with a white mesh cloth that keeps out the cabbage moths and I can actually get some cabbage. Can't wait to get my hands dirty. I'm waiting for my onions to arrive from Dixondale, also.
I’m between a beginner and veteran canner, still learning and coordinating my garden with my food preservation. I was just thinking as you were talking about greens how shocked I still am by how much I actually use canned greens. I never ever thought they would be a regular addition to our meal planning but I use them even more than green beans I think. Soups, stews, casseroles, pasta, stir fry, just whatever. Very very versatile and so good! not gross like store-bought slimy greens. I’m going to use your advice and trim more greens and can them up too now in addition to the kale, spinach, collards etc
Ive started my peppers and tomatoes already and they are both struggling with germination rate. Especially my peppers. Pretty disappointing since I was planning on selling my plants at the end of April... last year was my first year and everything did so well, this year is very discouraging.
We live in Southern California so the temps are ok for our cruciferous veggies. I up-potted 8 broccoli seedlings that had been outside already into 1 gallon containers and moved them to a high shelf space that we have outside. Something mowed them down and left nothing! 😢
Thank you for all of your tips and suggestions. I really struggled with cabbage bugs last year on my broccoli and cauliflower. I have been a bit hesitant to start more brassicas this year. It's nice to have somebody to watch with a similar growing season. We are zone 6b and high desert in central oregon and have such a short growing season. Our last frost date is mid-June. So, I have been trying to really lean into cold weather crops. I am doing a lot of root crops this year.
You can start about 50 onions in a 4" pot and it's way more cost effective...Start your own onions! 😊
I love your channel! Were in the same zone and it really helps me, a newbie, know when seeds can be started and all that fun stuff. Thank you!
Oh yes! Try starting onion seeds! They are one of my favorite things to start, and they are easy! I have limited space too. You can densely start the onions and pull them apart to plant. By time I put them out it makes room for peppers under lights.
Love your videos! Want to try freezing the cabbage steaks!
I have peppers going but started tomatoes yesterday.
Love your videos! I am in a southern zone, so my last frost date seems to be over, but still enjoy watching what you do!
@Rachel you can put plastic bottles on top of those stakes you have in your bed with the cover. That help the cover not to get ripped or broken
I moved my seed starting into another room this year and it’s hard to remember to check in on them but they are doing well. It’s time for the first fertilizer
I've been weeding out in the gardens and made my soil to start my seeds, going to start them this weekend . Im moving my strawberry bedout of the veggie garden to another garden with the other berries so i can use that raised bed for other veggies. I got the new bed ready 😊love this time of year ❤
Just a quick easy idea for making holes in your cups! I heat up the end of an old Phillips Screw driver on my stove & just melt holes on the bottom . Works great very little effort
We tried to grow cabbage from starts one year. It wasn't the cabbage moths that got them. It was the chickens! We opened the gate to let them free range for a bit before bed and they made a beeline straight to the poor baby cabbages. 😜
i am trying the 2 cup seed starting method. like the video so much i watched the hole thing.
So nice of you
Ice melt works great for slugs. Melts them in the ground. Nothing left but shells. Just gotta catch them before planting time. Haven’t attempted ice melt after planting but would guess it would soil ph like epsom salt.
Brilliant use of the wine cork opener!
I just used a nail to puncture holes in my solo cups easy and fast
I know you are in MI, so am I. But when is your last frost date? I haven't started seeds yet but my last frost date is the end of May. I marked my calendar for weeks out to start some things like peppers but can I start cabbages and such before 8 weeks out?
May 10th for us
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Thank you, I love your videos
Yeah new seeds 😁 can't wait to plant them ❤
Happy gardening.
May you have a great garden and harvest be full of abundance.❤
Hot screw driver makes poking holes so easy
I’m doing what you did last year and taking a year off. I am both excited 🎉 and sad 😢. I will focus this year on getting my orchard in and fruit bushes. So I guess I’m doing that 😂 May I ask what zone you are in?
6b
I didn't hear what you're planning new for covering the cabbage? I thought you started to mention something different?
I'll use my same set up just not the original covers that came with the frames
I can’t find this answer online anywhere and then i thought maybe Rachel knows. I recently got bagged potting mix that is moldy. Is there a way to fix this so I can still use it? Thanks
Yep just pour boiling water over it and stir it through until well moistened but not soggy, Everytime you walk buy it give it a stir to help it along
When you harvest your sweet potatoes slips what do you do with them? as it is not time to put them out yet. I was told they cannot sit in water for a long time. We have 2 more months before we put the sweet potatoes out.
They need to go in water for roots to develop, mine I've already started in water and will continue to harvest slips and place in water jars then plant out when safe to do so
Hello from New Hampshire love how your new trees and plants are looking great, Be Safe Be Careful and Be strong . I love watching when hubby gets your dinner ready love this :)
I'd love a video on how you cook the cabbage leaves.
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Love your seed starting videos! 🌱
I'm limited on space for growing, but I've found that by the time I'm planting tomatoes and peppers, or at least before I have to pot them up which takes up more room, I can start hardening off my onions, pansies, brassicas and other cool weather plants so they don't have to live on the seed rack anymore. I can put them on the table at night if it's too cold, but otherwise they'll go outside to harden off in the day, then plant them out in early-mid April where I live (last frost early-mid May). So that helps me for space issues 😊
We're in Arizona so we have an early start on gardening but everythingis in containers. The tomatoes are already setting fruit, the leaf lettuce will be ready for first harvest next week, the radishes are about the size of a pea so they'll be ready soon. I started a vertical planter of herbs this year and I'm seeing some tiny sprouts in the pockets.
I planted my tomatoes and peppers on March 4th, last year. It was way too early! I had to up-pot 4 times last year. I’m only 4 hours north of you. I’m waiting another 4 weeks this year. I don’t get it?
Im so excited for growing season. We have started some seeds , I have quite a few i need to get busy on probably tomorrow. Just hardened off transplants for cool weather and moved them outside to the grow box my husband made me.
I have more to grow than we have space and grow light's
Is your fertilizer home made?
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Rachel your seedlings are so beautiful. We have to get chains to lower our lights before we do more seeds to start. Lettuce and onions from seeds not a loss but not like your beauties. Great job and thanks for all your advice. Looking forward.
I will not have a Garden this year 😢😢😢, we’re going to be moving April or May.
I have to amend the soil first because this Land has never had a graden,
Good tip put soap and water in a sprayer and it helps get rid of box elder bugs.. I love your channel and your gardening tips helped me with my patio garden.
Was just thinking of you and your garden this morning! Glad to see how you and your plant babies are doing 😊
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Box elder leave a smell on the house if you wash your house down with vinegar and water they wont return the following year
Thanks for the video. 😊 can you suggest a good all purpose fertilizer for potting up new young plants as you did in the video? I appreciate it.
There's a link to it in the description of the video
I’m jealous of your beautiful starts. Mine come up and then do nothing until they die. This is the third year I have tried and failed. I used good soil and fed them once they were up. I even used boiling water to sterilize the soil before planting this year. It doesn’t seem to matter what I do I don’t seem to be able to start from seeds 😢
Just a possibility - I have seen a video about that. Their problem was that the soil was too dense. ( Either the composition of soil mix was too heavy or they packed the soil too hard in the pots ) maybe?
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Dixiondale is great.
Thanks!
Awe, thank you so much my friend ♥
hows Todd doing?
Super busy with work lately. Probably be that way for about 5 weeks
I winter sow onion seeds in milk jugs and put outside in late January (SW Missouri). They separate easily for transplanting and don't take up space on my growing shelves.
Hi Rachel… I received the video notification and I trying to watch you as I get ready to go to work this morning. Ha ha…. 🪴 I heard you mention you no longer grow spinach and perhaps you may have explained in a previous video that I missed, but could you answer that question please?
I grow Malabar spinach instead. it doesn't bolt and go bitter like normal does.