I start my tomato and pepper seeds on March 1st here in MI zone 6B. I actually only have a large north facing picture window with a 6 foot table that I start the seeds on. I have no fancy grow lights either. I do have 3 heating pads that I purchased on eBay. However for many many years I did not have them and I still was successful with seed starting. Just took longer. I use "Jiffy" seed starting mix and have for years. It is only about $5.00 per large bag at Home Depot. This year I started a few peppers on Jan 15 as I am going to experiment with pinching back the plants. Something I saw on UA-cam. I will start most of my seeds on March 1st. I also pinch back and replant to 3 1/2" pots to allow the tomatoes to get to a pretty good size with a nice sturdy trunk. I also cut off any tomatoes or floweres that may have started before they go in the ground. I usually put my tomatoes in the ground around May 15th. Of course, depending on the weather. I have done this for over 40 years. Works for me right here in good ole MI. I mean no offence to anyone. You might want to listen to someone who has many many years of home gardening. You actually can learn a lot if you just pay attention. UA-cam has many old time gardeners with many valuable tips.
I am in Zone 9, Las Vegas Nv, I started everything in January, as our last frost date is Feb 16th. I don't have that kind of patience, it all got started at the same time. I did direct sow the items on your list one week ago and they are all growing already, radish, carrots, beets, kale, chard, onions and various lettuces. my garden consists of 17 tomato plants ( 5 varieties) 5 types of squashes, winter and summer, pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, hot and sweet peppers, okra, eggplant, cauliflower, cucumbers ( they really didn't like starting indoors) and a bunch of herbs... ohhh and my potatoes! thanks for the great breakdown on the video!
THANK YOU!!!! I am a beginner beginner and bought all my supplies and was searching for helpful information and honestly this was incredible!! I'm getting out my highlighters, copying your list and that's it!! You took such a vast amount of information and explained in detail in a way that a beginner like me could understand it. 👍👍
Hello, just wanted to let you know what a blessing your videos have been. I have been stuck in the hospital for the last 2 weeks and I have watched a hundred of your videos. Thank you so much and I look forward to getting to my garden this year.
On your fall sale I bought a bunch of different seeds. I was excited to try lettuce. I did a test run & started 6 of butter crunch & ice burg ALL 12 seeds have germinated. Last season I purchased from a major seed company at the big box store none of those germinated. Thanks for providing an excellent product at an affordable price. 🥰
In Ontario we have a tradition of planting our gardens on the May 24 long weekend! It’s a little bit after our official “last frost date” so the risk of freak frosts is diminished, and it’s a public holiday so everyone has time to be in the garden!
Thank you so much. This is what I should have looked for 4 years ago, and I've been floundering this whole time because I didn't think of how to look for the answer
This was so helpful! I pulled up the Old Farmer’s Almanac website and I had no idea that you could search for your city and get a list of fruits and veggies and the best dates to germinate, plant them or direct plant them and then you can also click on the individual fruit/vegetable names and get a detailed guide on how to grow and care each plant.
Great tips Luke this is where so many people go wrong.Its one reason we started our channel there were none for our area on you tube hardly that explained anything hands on. Have a Blessed day
I sprout my beans at home and place the beans in 20 once solo cups. I transplant my beans within 7 to 10 days. Beans are cold sensitive, so I plant them after my frost free date. But, by transplanting I get a jump on the season. My beans do well. You can transplant beans.
I know it seems like a simple subject but it was nice to see a nice video like this. This is my first year of gardening and I started from seed. I sure would have felt more confident had I seen this video prior. But, mine worked out and my garden this year has exceeded my expectations. Thanks for breaking it down so simply.
Milk jugs!! Milk jugs are awesome little perfect mini greenhouses! I'm in southeast Texas and so we have almost a non-existent winter (it is currently 85 degrees during the day and today is December 26th), but milk jugs let in enough sunlight and oxygen, while still keeping in the moisture to start seeds in inclement weather. They are a little bulky and wouldn't look too nice on a front lawn, but I have mine lined up in my raised bed in my backyard and I love them!! Any clear-ish jug will work, 2 liter bottles, water jugs, etc.
Another is a simple low tunnel which will protect an entire area of plants. This can work great to get an earlier start for sure. I have been using them for years now. This method is also reusable and very inexpensive. :)
Luke, I live in Macomb county, MI and usually start my broccoli indoors about March 1st and put outdoors by the middle of April.my tomatoes and peppers are started about the second or 3rd of April and outside by the third or 4 th week of May. I've been gardening for almost 40 years but have learned so much more since watching your videos. Congratulations to you and your wife on the coming of a new MIgardener.
I actually started my corn inside last year and had the best corn crop ever! I had always been told you couldn't start corn inside. I saw several people were doing it on YT and gave it a try. My season is only about 138 days.
You should know that all teachers are not perfect when they tried to help, but each situation is different according inside or outside temp or how crowded or as thin or the deepth of the soil and fertilizer, water, air circulation is a critical factor when growing indoors more so than outdoors, and moisture and fungus snatch also, as to whether it is being covered or not. :}
I realize that this is an older thread - but I have to comment on starting beets and beans indoors. I started them indoors this year and transplanted out in garden. They transplanted very well, and since I was able to transplant successful seedlings, there are no empty spots in my garden (like happens when I direct seed). They are both growing very well, and the beets are already golf ball size at the end of May in zone 7.
I'm glad you prefaced this that you don't HAVE to start seeds indoors. I'm going to have a huge garden this year (~1300 sf of beds), but absolutely no set up for indoor seed starts. I hope they do well, but this is my heavy first year learning curve. Great info!!
I can't promise to not start my peas and beans indoors, because in fact, I did that today. To make matters worse, I'm up in Zone 3, in Alberta Canada! Peas and beans always work well when I start them indoors this early. They'll be at a South facing window under lights in the kitchen for a while, then out in the greenhouse for the first week of May. By the time they are ready to leave the greenhouse and go into the ground, they will be well on their way. The years I direct sewed peas, I had little to no crop. I will be starting cucumbers indoors too, they grow like crazy here once the weather warms up. I usually have a 9 foot tall wall of cucumbers against the south wall of my house every year.
I sprout my beans indoors, and put the beans in 20 once solo cups. I transplant my beans to the garden within seven to ten days depending upon the weather. I get good results.
I really like Clyde’s Garden Planner. It’s recommended by a lot of Master Gardeners. It has all the information with what to start when, planting starts inside to direct sow to when you’ll harvest. It costs $5.
I use those big cheese ball plastic containers as cloches (covers) for many of my plants. I use a hole saw on the bottom and turn the container upside down over the plant. A brick on top keeps the wind from blowing things over. I live near Seattle and the cold rain in early spring can be a problem.
I have been trying to catch up on your videos - not as easy as I thought. So many and everyone is very educational. We have moved from Florida to Wisconsin and all we know about gardening we have tossed out the window. Your channel has really helped and we send you a big Thanks!
I am in zone 9 and started black from tula tomato, lemon cucumber, early jalapeno, sun peppers, cherry tomatoes, among other things that I bought form MIGardener about a month ago. It has been so warm that I probably should have started much sooner, but I bought some seedlings from a big box store to get something in the ground and at the same time it will help me stagger my harvests, so it will work out well.
150 days! Jeepers thats short! We quite often dont have frost where we are in Western Australia, its our summer that is the struggle time. I struggle to comprehend a winter so cold that you cant plant.
Thank goodness for this video. I started gardening last summer. I live in Massachusetts and watch your videos because temperatures are similar. I don't own grow lights and my windows don't have window sills so I have been wondering when can I direct sow spring, summer, and fall vegetables. I love your channel keep up the great work!
We had an early frost last year that killed all my tomatilloes - right before harvest. This year I will start the seeds in the garage in Feb. Then plant them into our greenhouse tent (protection from persistent wind, rabbits and locusts). Hopefully we will get a harvest this year!
Wow I totally needed this! There is just not enough info as to how long these seeds need to be inside before ok to take outside, just when to germinate and how long that takes. So Helpful! Thank you!
I am starting 3 kinds of tomatoes, 4 types of watermelon, 3 types of squash, English peas, scarlet runner beans, 3 types of eggplants, 3 types of cantaloupe, longevity spinach and 2 kinds of peppers (2 8x6 and 1 10x10 raised bed and roughly 50 in pots). Now I am thinking I will try some leafy greens as well (grew them in the fall last year). I have added a year old grape vine and a passion fruit vine and a pomegranite tree, orange tree, avocado tree and grapefruit tree. My big question is how to properly rotate crops and maintain some production year round. I hope to add kiwi berries and pineapple guave before the end of April. I have watched a ton of videos on soil enrichment, planting, pruning, composting, wood chips, different teas and worm castings. Hoping to start encorporating the latter this Spring and Summer. I live in Spring, Texas, just north of Houston. Our goal is an edible forest for a lawn.
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Great video, always helpful!! Another resource is your local County Agricultural Extension Office. I will be growing tomatoes, peppers, onions, potatoes, strawberries, watermelon, kale, cabbage. broccoli, peas, beans, herbs, celery, carrots, corn, eggplant, and finally (hopefully), a giant pumpkin!! I bought a lot of my seed from your store and have been thrilled with the germination rate as well as the Trifecta. Keep those great videos coming!!!
thanks for the quick and easy tips...I'm excited to plant but started blanking out and feeling overwhelmed with all the choices of seeds and limited space till I get more beds started. this made for a lot of the main plants to be sown easily. my mind is shooting to what about this and the other...always starts this way till I start planting something.
I already started carrots up here in central NY. But I think I can still hold that promise as I started them in the container they will live their whole life in. I always direct sow peas and beans. I may pop a few (10 or so) in a pot when I'm starting everything else early, but that's just to double check what the germination rates are so I can avoid planting several hundred dead seeds.
Thanks so much for putting this together! I had a good sized garden a few years ago and then came two boys into my life and have had me very busy lol! I have just bought myself a new Husqvarna rear tine tiller and am going to get back into it this year because of how toxic all of our foods from the grocery store usually are! I have always had a hard time understanding when and what to plant and this was super simple and right to the point! Thanks again!
ooops, already started beans indoors. Direct sewed them last year and the squirrels ate the beans within 2 days. Hope this year the plants aren't as appetizing ...Live in SE Texas. Thanks, love your videos.
thank you Luke, this has been an information video that's less confussing than many others on what to start and when, and how to mark the calendar for those crops, not after y have starting, but also as a starting crops gide. so easy to mark the calendar, I used to write down each crop like spinach or radish indoor as microgreens, but like spinach that needs cold to start seedling, and is better to start outdoors on scheduled time like prior to fall or early spring greens.
Thank You so much I never done it that way and it's been a long time since I've had a garden I was 12 years old and since then my yard haven't been great so I'm trying to do something different this year ... I've always go with the feeling when I wanted to garden and never been the one who did everything by the book but always LOVE to garden all my life like growing things and eating fresh foods
Thank you! This is a huge head start into me buying my seeds over the next month or so and what I need to get right away and what I can wait on since i cant afford to get them all now. Appreciate you brother!
I actually have very good results starting radishes indoors. I generally start them about 3 weeks before I can put them out. They are small enough to transplant without issue and gives me a bit of a head start. I also tend to sow 3-5 radish seeds per cell.
thanks for the list with the color code - that helps a whole lot and maybe explains why some stuff never grew last year. here's to planning my second attempt!
omg this is the video I was looking for last weekend I already started my first seeds I hope I didn't do them to early I have about 8 weeks till last frost date I live in western ny
Luke: thank you for explaining this, in depth, and showing the tablet with the various weeks and color-coding on it!! I am a beginner and I learned so much and you made it fun and taught me what I needed to know. thank you! this was confusing to me a new gardener, and you clarified it completely. thank you!
Did a garden a few years ago and want to try again! Zone 8B...This year...(hopefully)... Large Red Cherry Tomato, Giant Noble Spinach, Early Scarlet Globe Radish, White Lisbon Bunching Onion, Sweet Basil, California Wonder BellPepper, Straight Eight Cucumber, Scarlet Emperor Bean (Pole Bean), Brilliant Red Oriental Poppy, Evening Sun Mix Sunflowers, Moulin Rouge Sunflowers, Mesclun Mix and Stargazer Lilies. I will probably pick up some lettuce starts as well, since my landlord loves lettuce. Spring is here...the daffodils are blooming and the trees are budding....but havn't opened yet. There is also snow on the surrounding mountains which has not reached the valley floor. It's been pretty wet and rainy yet...however there are also a few days of sun and blue sky. Going to be putting in beds....hopefully fairly soon. It's good that I don't have to have everything out quite as early as I thought....but I know that next month will be here before I know it! I hope this year I have an excellent garden!! Thank you for the tips!!! :)
Planted a couple of potatoes today. Not sure I want to put them there so it's experimental. Florida. I just ordered a bunch of seeds from you, can't wait. I start a few and find out how it goes then I jump all in. It's happening. The robins are here. That's how I know.😊
Loved this! thank you so much for your great information, Luke! I am addicted to learning about gardening and want to do the best job possible. You are an amazing teacher. (the sign of a great teacher is when your student RETAINS the knowledge you teach them). I am retaining what I learn here on your site. thanks for all the wonderful teaching and tips.
Don't feel bad about not starting (or not being able to) indoors..... Wow. I live in West Texas in a trailor, so space is small. I am experimenting with onions, broccoli, and sunflower seeds.....most other stuff out side! Got a butt load of seeds from a lady who runs a heirloom seed company called Texas Ready. She had southern and northern strain of seeds..and a HUGE VARIETY IN EACH KIT!
I started my stuff indoors a few weeks early (2 weeks). . . oops! It might still work out. I started tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and green onions. The green onions aren't doing too well, but everything else is doing amazing! I've had to put them into larger containers. First garden, here we go!
I'm happy I live in Florida. I'm just about that time now. Maybe I am going a bit sooner than that, but I have a big wall keeping warmth for the plants.
love your video. Being in the Adirondack mountains with a last frost date in June, I got ahead of myself. My former guest room is now full of "muck buckets" (40 gallon buckets) and grow lights. My growing season is not long enough for pumpkins and I am now watching the vines start to take over the bed lol. Also pole beans, pole and all. My room should be a jungle soon. I hate the long winters here.
Excellent, excellent video! After watching a lot of confusing videos on starting a spring garden in zone 5, I'm glad I finally found yours. Thank you so much for breaking it down and explaining it to make it easy to understand! Looking forward to planting my first vegetable garden!
Great vid. I'm in zone 5 with last frost date usually April 26. Despite that, I have started tomatoes, leeks, cukes, many herbs, and peppers a few of days ago under lights in a make shift grow box from an old dresser and all but the leeks have sprouted already. Will be doing onions this weekend. Trying hard not to do any more room right now (no room or lights available).
Wow! This is by far the best and most informative video I have. Ever seen... I’m so happy to have come across this🤗thank you so very much for putting all of this together, you have definitely helped me alot
Great explanation of the process! I also enjoyed your video on storing seeds too : )) I live in Victoria BC Canada and our last frost date is shown as March 1-10 but the garden centres here don't worry too much about the frost but about how wet the garden is and how cold the soil is.
Thanks for all the great information on gardening! You should do a complete growing guide on corn one day! Most beginning gardeners (including me last year) have had a hard time growing it successfully. Hopefully I'll get some good results this year.
This video was so helpful! I wish I had seen this last year. This was my first year planting veggies and I have so much to learn!! I just planted stuff as I went with no rhym or rhythm. Better luck to me next year.
I'm on the 6 min and you already surprise me. You are a good teacher and this make me happy. Already like the video, later I'm gonna subscribe and hope to see more videos.😁😊
I always get too excited and plant indoors way too early. I may have some tomatoes going now and my last frost date is June 1 🙈 Oh well, it’s a good learning experience!
Interesting, the guide on time is in contradiction to what is printed on many of your seed packets. Which should I go with? I set up a spreadsheet to keep me up to date with all of the planting times this year. Thanks!
MIgardener is such a blessing to those of us who are not super gardeners already. He has information for all levels and I just love him.
Beets are great to start indoors...been doing it for years and getting two crops out of same bed in one season by doing so...
i have to wait till april. but i have a new greenhouse up! so i will start in march!
I start my tomato and pepper seeds on March 1st here in MI zone 6B. I actually only have a large north facing picture window with a 6 foot table that I start the seeds on. I have no fancy grow lights either. I do have 3 heating pads that I purchased on eBay. However for many many years I did not have them and I still was successful with seed starting. Just took longer.
I use "Jiffy" seed starting mix and have for years. It is only about $5.00 per large bag at Home Depot. This year I started a few peppers on Jan 15 as I am going to experiment with pinching back the plants. Something I saw on UA-cam. I will start most of my seeds on March 1st.
I also pinch back and replant to 3 1/2" pots to allow the tomatoes to get to a pretty good size with a nice sturdy trunk. I also cut off any tomatoes or floweres that may have started before they go in the ground. I usually put my tomatoes in the ground around May 15th. Of course, depending on the weather. I have done this for over 40 years. Works for me right here in good ole MI.
I mean no offence to anyone. You might want to listen to someone who has many many years of home gardening. You actually can learn a lot if you just pay attention. UA-cam has many old time gardeners with many valuable tips.
I'm in Ohio, 6a I think. I always start my seeds the first week in March also.
I am in Zone 9, Las Vegas Nv, I started everything in January, as our last frost date is Feb 16th. I don't have that kind of patience, it all got started at the same time. I did direct sow the items on your list one week ago and they are all growing already, radish, carrots, beets, kale, chard, onions and various lettuces. my garden consists of 17 tomato plants ( 5 varieties) 5 types of squashes, winter and summer, pumpkin, watermelon, cantaloupe, hot and sweet peppers, okra, eggplant, cauliflower, cucumbers ( they really didn't like starting indoors) and a bunch of herbs... ohhh and my potatoes! thanks for the great breakdown on the video!
starting my first garden with my daughter.
Hope you're still gardening!
That's awesome!! I'm doing the same with mine!! Hope you still are!!
THANK YOU!!!! I am a beginner beginner and bought all my supplies and was searching for helpful information and honestly this was incredible!! I'm getting out my highlighters, copying your list and that's it!! You took such a vast amount of information and explained in detail in a way that a beginner like me could understand it. 👍👍
Yep! You're the only one who has explained 'what and how' with a pinch of caution. thnx
Hello, just wanted to let you know what a blessing your videos have been. I have been stuck in the hospital for the last 2 weeks and I have watched a hundred of your videos. Thank you so much and I look forward to getting to my garden this year.
On your fall sale I bought a bunch of different seeds. I was excited to try lettuce. I did a test run & started 6 of butter crunch & ice burg ALL 12 seeds have germinated. Last season I purchased from a major seed company at the big box store none of those germinated. Thanks for providing an excellent product at an affordable price. 🥰
In Ontario we have a tradition of planting our gardens on the May 24 long weekend! It’s a little bit after our official “last frost date” so the risk of freak frosts is diminished, and it’s a public holiday so everyone has time to be in the garden!
Thank you so much. This is what I should have looked for 4 years ago, and I've been floundering this whole time because I didn't think of how to look for the answer
The best part of the farmers almanac is they will email you when it's time to start certain veggies indoors :) Great video!
Will they?
This was so helpful! I pulled up the Old Farmer’s Almanac website and I had no idea that you could search for your city and get a list of fruits and veggies and the best dates to germinate, plant them or direct plant them and then you can also click on the individual fruit/vegetable names and get a detailed guide on how to grow and care each plant.
Thank you. One of the best I’ve seen for the novice gardener who needed “a clue” and a method for planning.
Great tips Luke this is where so many people go wrong.Its one reason we started our channel there were none for our area on you tube hardly that explained anything hands on. Have a Blessed day
Starting my first garden with my granddaughter ❤️ I have learned so much from your videos! Thank you so much! God Bless
I sprout my beans at home and place the beans in 20 once solo cups. I transplant my beans within 7 to 10 days. Beans are cold sensitive, so I plant them after my frost free date. But, by transplanting I get a jump on the season. My beans do well. You can transplant beans.
Rewatching this again, I swear everything seems to slip out of my brain over winter!
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I know it seems like a simple subject but it was nice to see a nice video like this. This is my first year of gardening and I started from seed. I sure would have felt more confident had I seen this video prior. But, mine worked out and my garden this year has exceeded my expectations. Thanks for breaking it down so simply.
Milk jugs!! Milk jugs are awesome little perfect mini greenhouses! I'm in southeast Texas and so we have almost a non-existent winter (it is currently 85 degrees during the day and today is December 26th), but milk jugs let in enough sunlight and oxygen, while still keeping in the moisture to start seeds in inclement weather. They are a little bulky and wouldn't look too nice on a front lawn, but I have mine lined up in my raised bed in my backyard and I love them!! Any clear-ish jug will work, 2 liter bottles, water jugs, etc.
milk jugs do work so well! We use them from time to time here too!
Another is a simple low tunnel which will protect an entire area of plants. This can work great to get an earlier start for sure. I have been using them for years now. This method is also reusable and very inexpensive. :)
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Luke, I live in Macomb county, MI and usually start my broccoli indoors about March 1st and put outdoors by the middle of April.my tomatoes and peppers are started about the second or 3rd of April and outside by the third or 4 th week of May. I've been gardening for almost 40 years but have learned so much more since watching your videos. Congratulations to you and your wife on the coming of a new MIgardener.
I actually started my corn inside last year and had the best corn crop ever! I had always been told you couldn't start corn inside. I saw several people were doing it on YT and gave it a try. My season is only about 138 days.
You should know that all teachers are not perfect when they tried to help, but each situation is different according inside or outside temp or how crowded or as thin or the deepth of the soil and fertilizer, water, air circulation is a critical factor when growing indoors more so than outdoors, and moisture and fungus snatch also, as to whether it is being covered or not. :}
I realize that this is an older thread - but I have to comment on starting beets and beans indoors. I started them indoors this year and transplanted out in garden. They transplanted very well, and since I was able to transplant successful seedlings, there are no empty spots in my garden (like happens when I direct seed). They are both growing very well, and the beets are already golf ball size at the end of May in zone 7.
5 years late but still a very informative video.
I'm glad you prefaced this that you don't HAVE to start seeds indoors. I'm going to have a huge garden this year (~1300 sf of beds), but absolutely no set up for indoor seed starts. I hope they do well, but this is my heavy first year learning curve. Great info!!
I can't promise to not start my peas and beans indoors, because in fact, I did that today. To make matters worse, I'm up in Zone 3, in Alberta Canada! Peas and beans always work well when I start them indoors this early. They'll be at a South facing window under lights in the kitchen for a while, then out in the greenhouse for the first week of May. By the time they are ready to leave the greenhouse and go into the ground, they will be well on their way. The years I direct sewed peas, I had little to no crop. I will be starting cucumbers indoors too, they grow like crazy here once the weather warms up. I usually have a 9 foot tall wall of cucumbers against the south wall of my house every year.
Very encouraging to me, here in Toronto Canada
I sprout my beans indoors, and put the beans in 20 once solo cups. I transplant my beans to the garden within seven to ten days depending upon the weather. I get good results.
Haha tomatoes in containers made it through the winter and still have fruit. Loving CA zone 9b.
thats great, I am in CA also, near Sacramento. Hi neighbor
I really like Clyde’s Garden Planner. It’s recommended by a lot of Master Gardeners. It has all the information with what to start when, planting starts inside to direct sow to when you’ll harvest. It costs $5.
I use those big cheese ball plastic containers as cloches (covers) for many of my plants. I use a hole saw on the bottom and turn the container upside down over the plant. A brick on top keeps the wind from blowing things over. I live near Seattle and the cold rain in early spring can be a problem.
I have been trying to catch up on your videos - not as easy as I thought. So many and everyone is very educational. We have moved from Florida to Wisconsin and all we know about gardening we have tossed out the window. Your channel has really helped and we send you a big Thanks!
I am in zone 9 and started black from tula tomato, lemon cucumber, early jalapeno, sun peppers, cherry tomatoes, among other things that I bought form MIGardener about a month ago. It has been so warm that I probably should have started much sooner, but I bought some seedlings from a big box store to get something in the ground and at the same time it will help me stagger my harvests, so it will work out well.
Great information, thanks for putting this together.
indoors seed starting tomato, peppers, spinach, onion and various spices
Starting peppers now, Jalepeno and Shishito actually. Tomatoes very soon. I'm in Zone 9b near Sacramento and last frost is around last January.
also, you saved me from starting A LOT of root veggies and beans that were going to get started tomorrow. Now I'm thinking March. Thank You!
150 days! Jeepers thats short! We quite often dont have frost where we are in Western Australia, its our summer that is the struggle time. I struggle to comprehend a winter so cold that you cant plant.
Thank goodness for this video. I started gardening last summer. I live in Massachusetts and watch your videos because temperatures are similar. I don't own grow lights and my windows don't have window sills so I have been wondering when can I direct sow spring, summer, and fall vegetables. I love your channel keep up the great work!
We had an early frost last year that killed all my tomatilloes - right before harvest.
This year I will start the seeds in the garage in Feb. Then plant them into our greenhouse tent (protection from persistent wind, rabbits and locusts). Hopefully we will get a harvest this year!
Wow I totally needed this! There is just not enough info as to how long these seeds need to be inside before ok to take outside, just when to germinate and how long that takes. So Helpful! Thank you!
I am starting 3 kinds of tomatoes, 4 types of watermelon, 3 types of squash, English peas, scarlet runner beans, 3 types of eggplants, 3 types of cantaloupe, longevity spinach and 2 kinds of peppers (2 8x6 and 1 10x10 raised bed and roughly 50 in pots). Now I am thinking I will try some leafy greens as well (grew them in the fall last year). I have added a year old grape vine and a passion fruit vine and a pomegranite tree, orange tree, avocado tree and grapefruit tree. My big question is how to properly rotate crops and maintain some production year round. I hope to add kiwi berries and pineapple guave before the end of April. I have watched a ton of videos on soil enrichment, planting, pruning, composting, wood chips, different teas and worm castings. Hoping to start encorporating the latter this Spring and Summer. I live in Spring, Texas, just north of Houston. Our goal is an edible forest for a lawn.
Scarlet runner beans are one of my favorites beautiful and delicious and very plentiful.
Haters be gone off this site. He is an amazing man and gardener. The VERY BEST!!! If you don’t agree with him or appreciate him why do you care. Makes no sense. Love LOVE LOVE MIgardener
Great video, always helpful!! Another resource is your local County Agricultural Extension Office. I will be growing tomatoes, peppers, onions, potatoes, strawberries, watermelon, kale, cabbage. broccoli, peas, beans, herbs, celery, carrots, corn, eggplant, and finally (hopefully), a giant pumpkin!! I bought a lot of my seed from your store and have been thrilled with the germination rate as well as the Trifecta. Keep those great videos coming!!!
Thanks so much for your help starting my large garden in Michigan
I want to try sowing a few beets in my window box in N Central MN in March to use for greens. I like the greens as much as the beets!
And you can cover your plants if you plant after the last frost date and an unexpected cold front comes through afterwards. Nice video.
From Canada....Quebec with terrific winters- snow and severe cold !
thanks for the quick and easy tips...I'm excited to plant but started blanking out and feeling overwhelmed with all the choices of seeds and limited space till I get more beds started. this made for a lot of the main plants to be sown easily. my mind is shooting to what about this and the other...always starts this way till I start planting something.
I really appreciate this videos. I’m very excited to start my garden.
I already started carrots up here in central NY. But I think I can still hold that promise as I started them in the container they will live their whole life in. I always direct sow peas and beans. I may pop a few (10 or so) in a pot when I'm starting everything else early, but that's just to double check what the germination rates are so I can avoid planting several hundred dead seeds.
I started lemon basil and sweet basil ,cumin and sweet alysium along with Calandula
Thanks so much for putting this together! I had a good sized garden a few years ago and then came two boys into my life and have had me very busy lol! I have just bought myself a new Husqvarna rear tine tiller and am going to get back into it this year because of how toxic all of our foods from the grocery store usually are! I have always had a hard time understanding when and what to plant and this was super simple and right to the point! Thanks again!
Great video. Did you know Ketchikan, Alaska gets 141 inches of rain, on average, per year.
TJ Wilson wow is it hard to garden sometimes and I kinda think you got a litttle lol
It’s a little trickier where we live. We have two short growing seasons. Plants go dormant here over the hot summer!
ooops, already started beans indoors. Direct sewed them last year and the squirrels ate the beans within 2 days. Hope this year the plants aren't as appetizing ...Live in SE Texas. Thanks, love your videos.
thank you Luke, this has been an information video that's less confussing than many others on what to start and when, and how to mark the calendar for those crops, not after y have starting, but also as a starting crops gide. so easy to mark the calendar, I used to write down each crop like spinach or radish indoor as microgreens, but like spinach that needs cold to start seedling, and is better to start outdoors on scheduled time like prior to fall or early spring greens.
Thank You so much I never done it that way and it's been a long time since I've had a garden I was 12 years old and since then my yard haven't been great so I'm trying to do something different this year ... I've always go with the feeling when I wanted to garden and never been the one who did everything by the book but always LOVE to garden all my life like growing things and eating fresh foods
Thank you! This is a huge head start into me buying my seeds over the next month or so and what I need to get right away and what I can wait on since i cant afford to get them all now. Appreciate you brother!
I actually have very good results starting radishes indoors. I generally start them about 3 weeks before I can put them out. They are small enough to transplant without issue and gives me a bit of a head start. I also tend to sow 3-5 radish seeds per cell.
thanks for the list with the color code - that helps a whole lot and maybe explains why some stuff never grew last year. here's to planning my second attempt!
omg this is the video I was looking for last weekend I already started my first seeds I hope I didn't do them to early I have about 8 weeks till last frost date I live in western ny
Luke: thank you for explaining this, in depth, and showing the tablet with the various weeks and color-coding on it!! I am a beginner and I learned so much and you made it fun and taught me what I needed to know. thank you! this was confusing to me a new gardener, and you clarified it completely. thank you!
Did a garden a few years ago and want to try again! Zone 8B...This year...(hopefully)... Large Red Cherry Tomato, Giant Noble Spinach, Early Scarlet Globe Radish, White Lisbon Bunching Onion, Sweet Basil, California Wonder BellPepper, Straight Eight Cucumber, Scarlet Emperor Bean (Pole Bean), Brilliant Red Oriental Poppy, Evening Sun Mix Sunflowers, Moulin Rouge Sunflowers, Mesclun Mix and Stargazer Lilies. I will probably pick up some lettuce starts as well, since my landlord loves lettuce. Spring is here...the daffodils are blooming and the trees are budding....but havn't opened yet. There is also snow on the surrounding mountains which has not reached the valley floor. It's been pretty wet and rainy yet...however there are also a few days of sun and blue sky. Going to be putting in beds....hopefully fairly soon. It's good that I don't have to have everything out quite as early as I thought....but I know that next month will be here before I know it! I hope this year I have an excellent garden!! Thank you for the tips!!! :)
Planted a couple of potatoes today. Not sure I want to put them there so it's experimental. Florida. I just ordered a bunch of seeds from you, can't wait. I start a few and find out how it goes then I jump all in. It's happening. The robins are here. That's how I know.😊
Loved this! thank you so much for your great information, Luke! I am addicted to learning about gardening and want to do the best job possible. You are an amazing teacher. (the sign of a great teacher is when your student RETAINS the knowledge you teach them). I am retaining what I learn here on your site. thanks for all the wonderful teaching and tips.
I'm in southeast Massachusetts zone 7a. Decent growing season here about 7 months long.
Older video, still great production value, and very helpful information
Don't feel bad about not starting (or not being able to) indoors.....
Wow. I live in West Texas in a trailor, so space is small.
I am experimenting with onions, broccoli, and sunflower seeds.....most other stuff out side!
Got a butt load of seeds from a lady who runs a heirloom seed company called Texas Ready.
She had southern and northern strain of seeds..and a HUGE VARIETY IN EACH KIT!
I started my stuff indoors a few weeks early (2 weeks). . . oops! It might still work out. I started tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and green onions. The green onions aren't doing too well, but everything else is doing amazing! I've had to put them into larger containers. First garden, here we go!
I'm happy I live in Florida. I'm just about that time now. Maybe I am going a bit sooner than that, but I have a big wall keeping warmth for the plants.
I'm watching you from Detroit. Hi neighbor.
love your video. Being in the Adirondack mountains with a last frost date in June, I got ahead of myself. My former guest room is now full of "muck buckets" (40 gallon buckets) and grow lights. My growing season is not long enough for pumpkins and I am now watching the vines start to take over the bed lol. Also pole beans, pole and all. My room should be a jungle soon. I hate the long winters here.
started my veggies inside yesterday. keep up the great videos!
Excellent, excellent video! After watching a lot of confusing videos on starting a spring garden in zone 5, I'm glad I finally found yours. Thank you so much for breaking it down and explaining it to make it easy to understand! Looking forward to planting my first vegetable garden!
Great vid. I'm in zone 5 with last frost date usually April 26. Despite that, I have started tomatoes, leeks, cukes, many herbs, and peppers a few of days ago under lights in a make shift grow box from an old dresser and all but the leeks have sprouted already. Will be doing onions this weekend. Trying hard not to do any more room right now (no room or lights available).
Wow! This is by far the best and most informative video I have. Ever seen... I’m so happy to have come across this🤗thank you so very much for putting all of this together, you have definitely helped me alot
I started my tomatoes, onions, and basil- all bought from the seed store!!!
Central Coast California and Im starting celery bell peppers tomatoes and chile peppers already haha have to love Cali weather
Thank you for taking the time to do this. It was a very clear explanation. Great teachers start at the beginning and are thorough. Thumbs up.
REALLY HELPFUL. THIS WAS MY BIGGEST SOYRCE OF WORRY. Thanks
Now I know why my carrots looked so sad..won't make that mistake again, great information! I love your channel thanks for your time and efforts
Thanks for that info Luke!. I'm not growing a lot this year but will have globe and heirloom tomatoes, basil, thyme, oregano.
This is helpful, thank you. We are just starting Hydroponics and building a greenhouse. So excited!! We just bought a 5 acre mini farm.
Starting my first garden & I’m also from MI! ✋🏼
Super simple "duh" tip that I had never thought of. My method of when to start is much more complicated and time consuming. Thank you so much!
Great explanation of the process! I also enjoyed your video on storing seeds too : )) I live in Victoria BC Canada and our last frost date is shown as March 1-10 but the garden centres here don't worry too much about the frost but about how wet the garden is and how cold the soil is.
I still have about a month before all my beets,carrots and onions are ready to pick, so starting my tomato and pepper seeds now.
Thanks for all the great information on gardening! You should do a complete growing guide on corn one day! Most beginning gardeners (including me last year) have had a hard time growing it successfully. Hopefully I'll get some good results this year.
This video was so helpful! I wish I had seen this last year. This was my first year planting veggies and I have so much to learn!! I just planted stuff as I went with no rhym or rhythm. Better luck to me next year.
Great video! Love that calendar 🥕 🍅
Thank you! That was so helpful, and to the point! Just the info I needed.
I always enjoy your videos cuz they're clear and go to the point.
Doing my first garden!!! Started my tomatoes and herbs in March. Since I'm in Michigan too that should be pretty good.
I'm on the 6 min and you already surprise me. You are a good teacher and this make me happy. Already like the video, later I'm gonna subscribe and hope to see more videos.😁😊
I always get too excited and plant indoors way too early. I may have some tomatoes going now and my last frost date is June 1 🙈
Oh well, it’s a good learning experience!
Extremely helpful...simple...brilliant! Thanks!
Super clear! Thanks for the chart 😊
Ooo I’m jealous of those botanical prints! 💚
LEGIT informative video - THANK YOU!!!
OMG! I wish I would have seen this a while ago. Lesson learned - still time to plant my squash, cucumbers, and watermelon. Thanks, Luke🥜🥒🍉
thanks that saves me a lot of time figuring all that out
Interesting, the guide on time is in contradiction to what is printed on many of your seed packets. Which should I go with? I set up a spreadsheet to keep me up to date with all of the planting times this year. Thanks!