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Post by daylilydude on Sept 14, 2017 4:47:45 GMT -5
When do you start seedlings?
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Post by spike on Sept 14, 2017 8:04:27 GMT -5
NE Ohio 6a/6b The lake effect/snow belt keeps things interesting around here. That being said I usually start my Pepper seeds around the first of April. By the 15th of April all the little peppers are starting to pop though the soil and I start the tomato seeds. About a week after that I start everything else! I can usually get plants out the beginning of June.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Sept 14, 2017 8:25:27 GMT -5
Around 2-20 I start the few early peppers I do, then around 3-20 for my spring crop of greens (goes out around 4-15) and any early toms that will go out under WOWs. And 4-1 almost everything else. Tomatoes are fast, so they are ready by 5-1, EP a little slower, and go out a week later, and peppers even slower, and go out 5-15 to 5-20, all things weather permitting! Then there are all the oddball things in between all those dates, but those are the main plantings.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 14, 2017 8:56:34 GMT -5
My garden never really stops since I can grow cool-season crops all winter. But peppers I sow around New Year's and tomatoes I sow in mid to late January. I transplant them outside around March 10 (+- a week), though in colder years I've had to hold seedlings indoors until the very end of March.
I haven't grown many of them, but the few C. chinense peppers I have grown seemed to sulk until it's really warm with nights in the 60s, so if I grow those again I'll hold them for transplanting at about mid-April.
Mid-April is also a good time to begin sowing real heat-lovers like okra and Asian long beans.
Most of the other frost-tender veggies (green beans, melons, summer squash, etc.) I sow between mid-March and mid-April.
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Post by paulf on Sept 14, 2017 9:32:57 GMT -5
Southeast Nebraska/used to be zone 5b, now considered zone 6a.
Sweet peppers started last week of February or the first week of March. Since I grow tomatoes for greenhouses/nurseries in the local area, tomatoes the second week of March. They get lots of earlybird sales in mid-April. Then when the folks buying early get frozen out and repurchase the first of May there are still plenty to sell. I plant both peppers and tomatoes outdoors between May 1 and May 15 depending on the weather.
Everything else gets direct sown between April 15 and May 15 depending on the temperature and the type of plant. Next year I think I will start vine crops indoors to see how the melons and cucumbers do with an early start.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Sept 14, 2017 9:44:01 GMT -5
NE Wisconsin, Zone 5A Though sometimes I think I push the 5B envelope because of the more urban environment I live in.
I used to start superhots in February because some of them take so long to germinate. This year I didn't, and while I didn't have any troubles with germination this year, those superhots are slow growers, so next year I will be sure to give them a month's head start so that I get more than a couple of ripe peppers on them.
Normal is to start my peppers the first week of April, the tomatoes two weeks later, and the eggplants get started last. Somewhere in there I usually start my kale and cabbage seeds as well.
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Post by september on Sept 14, 2017 11:36:57 GMT -5
I'm in Minnesota, zone 3b. I start peppers in mid-March, and most tomatoes at the end of March.
I expect to pot up an extra time because I want my plants larger going into the garden. Luckily I do have a small greenhouse to expand into and don't need to keep seedlings under my indoor lights for very long.
I try to get tender plants into the garden during the last week of May/first week of June. I do watch extended weather forecasts very carefully (for what that's worth!) and try to do my own predictions depending on what's happening out in Washington State/BC Canada. We get their stuff in some form about 5-6 days later. I may plant earlier some years, if the ground and air temps are consistently warm, and just figure on having to use buckets to cover plants at night if we should get any frost.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Sept 15, 2017 14:08:22 GMT -5
... Since I grow tomatoes for greenhouses/nurseries in the local area, tomatoes the second week of March. They get lots of earlybird sales in mid-April. Then when the folks buying early get frozen out and repurchase the first of May there are still plenty to sell... Hah, I guess that happens everywhere. Here the nurseries have tomato and pepper seedlings in late January. I walk past them every year shaking my head. Obviously people buy seedlings that early or they wouldn't stock them every year. Other than in exceptionally mild winters, those poor seedlings are doomed. Oh, and a little rant here - the same stores often won't have seed starting supplies out until well into February!
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Post by paquebot on Sept 17, 2017 20:23:22 GMT -5
Vone 4b/5a WI. Peppers 2/20 inside. Tomatoes and onions 3/20 outside. Brassice 4/20 outside.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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