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Post by daylilydude on Jan 6, 2018 7:32:34 GMT -5
When do you plant your first seeds of the year, and is it either indoors or outside.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Jan 6, 2018 8:06:34 GMT -5
Definitely indoors, and the habanero peppers. Last season it was around 2-18, but the plants got too large, and needed transplanted to 2 qt pots, before putting out around 5-15. I think that they grew faster than previously, due to the mild winter, and even though I have my thermostat drop to 62°, both at night, and while at work, it didn't get that low too often! So this year, I'll shoot for 3-1.
Outdoors, peas, around 3-15. Traditionally, peas are "as soon as the soil can be worked", but in the last 20 years or so, the soil can be worked almost all winter here! Even after times like now, with record cold, we'll have a heat wave melting it! And next week, it's supposed to get into the 50s, and possibly 60° - par for the course.
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Post by brownrexx on Jan 6, 2018 8:57:33 GMT -5
I start my tomato seeds indoors about the middle of March to get them ready for planting outdoors around the middle of May.
I don't grow any unusual varieties of peppers so I usually buy them as seedlings because we have lots of local greenhouses who grow them in 4-packs for about $1 each.
It is traditional to plant peas here by St. Patrick's Day (March 17) so I usually try to do that unless the ground is still frozen.
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Post by spike on Jan 6, 2018 9:13:33 GMT -5
I start tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, squash, cucumbers, brussel sprouts, cabbage and whatever else catches my eye that needs an early start earlyish/mid April. (hubby says you can see my grow lights from space. He says that some day the "heat" is gonna kick down our door, shoot our dogs to find my "grow" and find tomato plants.)(he isn't as cute as he thinks he is) Now when seeds actually get planted is a whole nother story. Around these parts in Spring, sometimes it rains so hard it is like a cow pissing on a flat rock. Turns the garden into the labrae tar pits. I have no desire to be found by future archaeologists and placed as a display in some museum. (sorry I am easily distracted . . . oooh shiney) The latest my seeds have hit the ground was the second week of June. So anytime between the end of May and early June seeds hit the ground, but it really is depending on the weather.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Jan 6, 2018 13:00:50 GMT -5
Tomato and pepper seed will be planted indoors later this month. Transplant outdoors is last week in March or the first in April depending on the weather forecast.
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Post by meandtk on Jan 6, 2018 14:30:52 GMT -5
I'll probably start peas out and maters and peppers in the same week..very soon.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jan 6, 2018 14:59:48 GMT -5
I have to decide if I'm going to do any superhots this year. If I do, they will meet the dirt towards the end of February. The rest of the peppers go in towards the end of March, followed by tomatoes in early April, and then eggplants the end of April. Those are all started inside.
As far as starting some seed outside, that changes every year. I've had lettuce and radish seed in mid-March and had it grow. Last year I think I didn't get in there until the beginning of May. The way the cold is now, it could be a while before we can get in the dirt. If the super cold comes back a few more times and we have such a small bit of snow, I may lay out some black plastic and see if I can help spring planting along.
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Post by Gianna on Jan 6, 2018 15:54:59 GMT -5
Tomatoes and peppers - very soon. Could probably do it now, but my seed starting mat is being used.
I can find something to plant year-round, though most things obviously have their particular seasons in which they thrive.
Almost everything that gets planted in the garden, 12 months of the year, is started in cells first.
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Post by whistech on Jan 6, 2018 19:50:44 GMT -5
I'm starting pepper and tomato seeds next week. Going to till one of my raised beds next week and plant Austrian Crescent potatoes in it in 2 weeks.
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Post by september on Jan 6, 2018 22:11:39 GMT -5
Peppers - mid March, most tomatoes end of March. Exceptions might be a few early maturing varieties that I plan to leave in pots, they might get started sooner when I can no longer stand the itch to not play in dirt! Squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, the 2nd week of May, about 3 weeks before setting out.
This year, I will try to remember to start my onion seeds and teeny tiny flower seeds at least a month earlier than the tomatoes and peppers. I really need to make a check off chart for myself on when to start various sized seeds.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 9, 2018 10:40:42 GMT -5
Cool weather crops grow all winter here, so I could plant something at pretty much any time of year.
But I guess I'll say that my garden year starts with sowing pepper seeds today. (I meant to do them earlier, during the last week of December.) Tomatoes and eggplants I will sow in a couple of weeks. Plant out date for tomatoes is usually by about March 10, though in some years it can be late March.
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Post by paulf on Jan 9, 2018 11:10:40 GMT -5
Peppers late February or early March (figured out if they get a two or three week head start they will ripen for me), tomatoes mid-March, anything else my wife wants gets started however many weeks before outdoor planting. Everything outdoors gets planted from mid-April to mid-May. Tomatoes and peppers around May 5-10, weather permitting.
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Post by paquebot on Jan 9, 2018 21:44:14 GMT -5
Carrots, radishes, and onions are already planted outside. First two will come up whenever it's warm enough. (They are in large pots.) Onions are sort of getting a natural cold treatment and also in pots. About the end of February, I'll slip plastic grocery bags over them and they'll warm and pop up in a hurry.
Inside, peppers are started and I try to hold off until the middle of February. Celeriac started the same time. Tomatoes go outside in a cold frame. Could be any time between now and 21 March just so I can say started outside in the winter! I try to find a decent day after 15 March to set the seeds in dry starter medium. Then cover them with 5 or 6 inches of snow. Sun melts the snow which dampens the medium and wakes up the seeds. Generally see first emergence around 15 April.
Martin
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