When to Start Seeds Indoors
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2019
- Knowing and understanding when to start seeds indoors can help ensure gardening success. Gardener Scott discusses why to start seeds indoors and when to start seeds. To start seeds you should know your last frost date and then check the seed packet for recommended sowing time. With a calendar it becomes a simple matter of choosing the best seed starting date. In this video, Gardener Scott also discusses which plants are best to start indoors and which plants you should never start inside.
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I grew up on a farm and my dad and mom knew all this stuff, so I took it for granted. Now all these years later I find myself on you tube researching stuff I should already know.
I appreciate how you explain why you take certain steps instead of offering blind instructions. I'm in zone 9, so the specifics almost never apply, but understanding the PURPOSE of common instructions helps me discern what the plants may need. I'm hoping for some modest success starting a garden later this year.
I follow a lot of YT gardening channels and I love them all for various reasons, but your videos are hands down the best, most informative ones out there. The information you provide is always thorough and clearly explained. You are an excellent teacher!
Thank you very much.
perfect explanation on when to start your seeds indoors. Gardener Scott, your videos are so helpful! Thank you!
You're very welcome. I'm so glad you enjoy them.
You are such a great teacher!!! Thank you again!!
Very thorough! Thank you for this, very clear and concise. It makes so much sense to mark it on a calendar :)
This video was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for sharing. I can’t wait to get started!
Gardener Scott you’re very informative and on point. Love your channel.
So easy and concise as to planting seed starts for spring gardening.
Glad to see you using the calendar from such a great organization! ❤️❤️
This is an awesome video! I'm glad I saw this now, not next spring when it would be too late to start planning!
Thank you so much Scott. I had been looking for someone to explain this process in a clear way and you did that so easily.. Thank you!
Awesome❗clearly explained and illustrated. Thanks for sharing🌹
Thank you , Gardener Scott, I am excited for my first official beds.
Thank you for the easy explanation! I appreciate it! Love learning from you!
Thanks, Heather.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! NEW GARDENER HERE AND KNOWING WHEN AND WHERE TO START MY SEEDS IS SO USEFUL
Very useful information Thanks Scott
Valuable information about correct timings for seeds and keeping track with calender. Thanks, Scott.
I learn so much from you... thank you for your videos!
Thank y'all. Many blessings, julie
What an awesome video. Totally informational and fun to watch. Thanks for posting!
What a great educational program! I've got my calendar set up. Now I need to figure how many flats for space and lighting needed.
I love this guy!
Very enlightening and helpful video! thank you!
This was super helpful, thank you!
I am going to plan my seed starting today! 🤞🏽
Good advice! I started late this year. 2021 will be better planned!
Oh my goodness. This was the best video on starting seeds from indoors! Understanding warm and cold season plants really explains how to determine seed starts. Also loved the calendar idea.
THANK YOU SO, SO, much.
Awesome planning! Thank you.
Thankyou, I learned alot and was able to organize better.
Thanks, great planning, I needed this information.
Thanks Scott very informative this is going to help a great deal love your very informative videos
Thank you for the nice comment.
These are the most clear and needed informations that I`ve received about seeds ! Thank you so much !!!
You're very welcome.
So well done
Love ur videos Scott! Been binging on them being new to the wonderful experience!
Awesome! Thank you!
This helps sooo much!! Thank you! I’m in Zone 9A (Houston, TX). So this really clears it up for me. Luckily, we’ve a very long growing season here.
This is very helpful!
Thank you so much, I've learned so much!!
Hello and good afternoon! I've been watching your channel for the past month and have learned so much! I feel I now know at least enough to start my garden. I just wanted to say thank you for all your content and knowledge and also for sharing it with the world @gardener scott
Doing our very first garden with raised beds made from old fallen trees. Excited to start some indoors. We’ve just started some tomatoes indoors! Going to try and grow several greens this year!
I saw this post a few months ago and have your list in my gardening notebook. Planned what, where, etc.
Shop lights, shelving, mylar drape, seeds, et al. Ready and waiting!! Thank you so much for a great, informative channel/post.
Where’s is this list please?
going to start tomatoes and peppers indoors for spring garden.Great information thank you
Excellent teacher for a beginner.
Just found your channel today and super excited to try some new ideas and methods!
Really enjoy you kind and personal candor. You are of high caliber people. :)
Trying something new this year, growing in buckets (in doors). Then more to the greenhouse and eventually outdoors. Just can't wait. Winter experiment.
So glad I found your channel! I’m in zone 6b at 7000’ elevation. Starting my first garden this year. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers to name a few. I’m sure I will have lots of challenges ahead. Wish me luck! 😊
You can do it!
My growing season is a little longer, zone 6B here. I give them all 1-2 weeks delay, better to start a bit late and be almost sure about good temperatures than to rush.
Sounds good I'm in NJ get a good long season I believe this year I'm starting seed in a 50 gallon fish tank in peat pots to get the south facing window to get the greenhouse effect then when they get in green breaking seed soil /peatmoss then hook up my Grow lights an small fan with ventilation... Good luck !
I got into gardening and small scale farming a few years ago. I would have saved alot of time and money if i had found your channel first!
Just discovered your channel and am loving the educational videos!!! I’m learning so much and can’t wait to share it with others
That's wonderful. Thanks for letting me know.
Thank you.
Gardener Scott.... you're the bees knees bra. Dig your approach,.... appreciate your advice. This will be my first go at sowing early seedlings and I have a feeling that this video will be my template. Cheers!
Thanks, Sean. Glad I can help. Enjoy every step in the process.
Thank you. Very Good.
This IS the video I needed...going to start seeds this year. Inherited my mother's plant stand that has a grow light at each level. I just figured out I am at 8 wks out from the last (spring) frost date.
Thanks for sharing,big help for me coz I’m a starter gardener,👍
Planting Sorghum for the first time.
Also some Hemp.
Advice greatly appreciated.
TIA
Awesome! I do a lot of gardening and hold a graduate certification in extension from Auburn University and a Masters in Agricultural Leadership. Your a true inspiration and motivation for us all. My little boy and oldest daughter just seeded butter crunch lettuce and beets today, after building hoops. It is going into the low 20's soon. But they, as do I, enjoy being a part of gardening. I cannot tell you enough how much you help others gardener Scott!
Thank you so much. I'm so glad to hear your children are involved in gardening -- thank you for that!
Great info
I tend to start earlier than I probably should! Zone 5 and I have started onion seeds and several peppers, also have started oregano. Thanks for the video!
Hi, Enge. You will probably be okay. The onions take a long time to grow and transplant well even when they're big; I started some onions this week. Oregano is also a bit slow to grow big and transplants well. It is a bit early to start the peppers, but plan to transplant into bigger pots as they grow. I've started a few for my zone 5 garden too. I plan to put them in Wall O' Waters and under plastic hoophouses so I can get them out early this year.
I live in Missouri I use baker Creek seeds too. I'd like to start tomatoes indoors first. This year.
Wish I had seen this video last year, it would have saved me several hours..Oh well, Thanks for making the video.
Excellent video Scott. Subscribed!
Thanks! Welcome to the channel.
In Thornton co. Just recently found your channel. So appreciate. Thank you.
Just what I needed, subbed.
Welcome to the channel, Bud. Glad to help.
Thank you for this :)
Nothing unusual for my starts Scott: 4 tomato types (Brandy, Gold Medal, Hungarian Heart & Arkansas Traveler) and 3 peppers (Cubanelle, Dulce de Espana & Sweet Banana).
I'm thinking of putting in the Egyptian Walking Onion sets very soon.....I've been propagating & growing these for scallions from my Grandfather's stock for going on 30 years. My Pop-Pop lives on in my garden every year.
Your channel is one of my favorites. Thanks for all of the interesting info.
Thank you, Ed. I particularly appreciate the thought of your Pop-Pop living on. That's how I like to garden, by making and preserving memories. Sounds like you're off to a great start to the gardening year. Enjoy it!
Thank you for the video . I’ll probably need to rewatch this again but you writing down the guide helped. I’m in zone 8a in Georgia and I’ve been trying to journal and plan . I went out to get the seed starting containers and mixes . Tried to google in different sites my last frost and work with a calendar to see when to start but idk if I’m just overwhelmed or clueless.... I’m still unsure that I have the timing right. I was thinking towards the end of this month should be right .
Also I’m glad I watched your video because I was going to start my rutabaga and kohlrabi inside
Sounds good I'm in NJ get a good long season I believe this year I'm starting seed in a 50 gallon fish tank in peat pots to get the south facing window to get the greenhouse effect then when they get in green breaking seed soil /peatmoss then hook up my headlights an small fan with ventilation... Good luck !
That sounds like quite a setup, Ken. You have it figured out. Enjoy!
Such a great, easy to follow video! It especially helped me since I live in Colorado and have the same zone so just copied your dates!!! LOL
Well this video saved me some mistakes. Starting my seeds for the first time and was going to start anything and everything. I ended up doing just tomatoes, onions, broccoli, peppers and some others. Thanks!
I start lettuce indoors very densly in 10-12 in pots in February , long before the last frost here in southeast Virginia. A lot of varieties especially Romaine and Mesculun. I move them outside in March and they really take off. Right now I have some almost a foot tall.
Great video! I’m gonna use your method. But, I’m in the south so I have alittle more time before I need to start the stuff in door. Sherri from Alabama 😊🌻
Thanks! Enjoy it.
❤️ your channel
Thanks Scott, that will getting me going in a better direction than I was in my 1st year of gardening. I shot from the hip with mixed results.
Now you can shoot at a target, Leonard. Hope to hear about the better results you get this year.
@@GardenerScott A person in my area says she does not transplant until June 1st. Our average date is May 12th. I know I need to watch the weather, but if it is 3 weeks later am I going to be ok, or should I be thinking of pushing my start dates back. She says it is because she has lost a lot of plants.
Leonard, a lot of it depends on what plants you want to start inside. Cool season plants can handle a dip in temperature after transplanting, but the warm season plants will be damaged. Many Zone 5 gardeners, like us, have learned from experience that if you plant too close to the last frost date you run the risk of losing those warm season plants to a late freeze. I use June 1st as my target for transplanting most of my tomatoes and peppers for that reason. However, I do start some at the beginning of May using Wall O' Waters and I did a video on that ua-cam.com/video/TKG-qhSAX5k/v-deo.html
Season extenders like those and plastic hoophouses and cold frames can allow you to get plants in the ground with less worry about frost. If you don't use a season extender, it's probably better safe than sorry and plant later. Pushing back your start dates by a couple weeks may be wise for this year and then you can get a feel for what works best for you. Remember that recommended start dates are usually a range of weeks, so if tomatoes are 6-8 weeks before the last frost you can start your seeds 6 weeks before the last frost date and the plants will go in the ground at the 8-week point.
EXCELLENT
First time watching. I’m okay with electronic charts, but I still like a good hand written chart more. Great video.
Great video, very informative
Thanks!
I live in southern Arizona. I have a year round growing season. So I rarely start indoors, but carrots. For some reason I can't get them to germinate outside. I found I can get them to grow straight if I start them inside and transplant them outside as soon as they germinate. I use a step up tray rather then a start tray. As soon as they break the ground I put them in the ground. I learned that if I wait even a few days my carrots come out looking like hands, but if i get them in the ground the day they break ground they grow like normal. Same with turnips, radishes, and parsnips but potatoes must be direct sown even here.
I start my bush beans inside and it works much better than outside in central NJ.
I’ve gotten ahead of myself on my tomatoes and a few flowers. Peppers in soil for hopefully planting later
Judy, use this as a good opportunity to see how it works with the plants you chose to start. And then modify as necessary for next year. :)
Thank you Gardener Scott! I plan on marking my calendar soon. Do we need to account for an additional week to harden off the plants as well? Thanks for your advice. I love your videos!
Good question. I don't include the week of hardening off in the starting calculation.
I started 1 potato inside in a 10 gallon container & then the other outside. The 1 from the container had a head start & transplanted great! It grew better all season long. Ended up decimated by chipmunks but ....
Thank you gardener Scott! Just what I need! Very helpful information!👍 Would you please tell me which planting zone are you at?
I'm in zone 5b
Helpful as my last frost date is more or less the same as yours.
I’ve started beans indoors in 20 once solo cups with good success. It’s a way of getting a jump start on your beans. Beans do mot the cold. You can start your beans indoors 10 days to two weeks before the last frost date.
Just ordered my Mylar blankets today I never would have thought of using them
Glad to hear it!
I’m so cheap I use aluminum foil
Gardener Scott, thanks so much for all your valuable knowledge. I live in south FL zone 10b and am wondering if you could do a video dedicated to starting seeds in trays outdoors/indoors for areas that have no frost or very little risk like my own. The real threat here is the heat, humidity, and summer rains. Thanks so much!
Thanks, Tyson. Good suggestion. I am planning a future video about starting seeds and growing in a greenhouse with those same conditions, but it will be awhile before it comes out. I'll see if I can put together a video later this year that discusses your concerns.
@@GardenerScott thanks again!
I'm new to the channel so let me first say, Thank you Gardener Scott. I've been doing my own thing for a while now, but now I am finally learning why some things have failed. The one veggie I like to grow is lettuce. Would you start that ahead of time? Oh, and I live in zone 6b.
Lettuce can be started ahead. I start a few lettuce indoors and then sow seeds at the same time I transplant them. That gives a steady supply for harvest.
Great video and very clear. I wonder how you treat the week or two that seeds take to germinate? Is that considered part of the weeks you're counting back or should you move back additional time to allow for germination?
The germination time is included in the count-back time. A seed started six weeks before the last frost date may take a week to germinate, which means it has five weeks of active growing.
Last year for first time I started squash, watermelon and pumpkin in a small pots outdoors because we sometimes have crazy late frosts. This allowed me to put in unheated greenhouse if frost threatens, but it also serves another purpose that the Western people don't have--The dreaded Vine Borer!!
I'm trying to miss that life cycle date of the vine borer. It seemed to help, but needs perfecting as we still had to wrap stems in tin foil and do the dreaded surgery with Exacto knife and BT--Ugh! You have no idea how those blasted things can wreck a crop of squash. Nothing worse than observing wonderful robust squash plants and having that vine borer zipping around your squash. Makes you feel helpless as they can drill into a vine not only at the base (their 1st choice), but also down the stem. The eggs Are Very difficult to see and find.
Great explanation. Other than basil, are there any other herbs that I should start indoors?
Thanks. You can start just about all of them. I also start rosemary, thyme, tarragon, and sage inside because they take longer to grow.
Gardener Scott, I live in CO as well. Where are you located? I'm on the brink of zone 5a and zone 5b. Your videos have been very helpful. Thank you for posting them!
I'm near Colorado Springs. Glad they're helpful!
Thumbs Up! Where the calendar at. LOL!
Great video! I have also been planning my garden seedlings with a calendar, the same way as you. This year however I want to use my newly acquired greenhouse to get a head start. My last frost date in southern Québec, is the same as yours. Any idea how soon I could transplant my cucumber, pepper and tomato plants in the grennhouse?
Thanks! Depending on the plant, I typically started 4-8 weeks earlier than outside sowing. Temperatures are usually warm enough but the amount of daily sunlight may not be enough if started earlier than that.
Thank you for your quick reply. It is helpful.
got me because it still feels like winter here in ohio with 32 degrees at night still in may 10th
Thank you 3/12/2024
Gardener: Thanks for explaining the seed starting timing so clearly. I have what I **think** is a related question. I live in in a small house in Texas Zone 8a with room in the back for only two or three 4 x 8 beds and very, very little room indoors for a seed-starting station. , If I want to avoid a "harvest everything now" situation, how do I time my planning of any **single** crop so I would be harvesting over a longer period of time? (If you have a video about that, that's just as good as you answering here.). Thanks.
Stagger your sowing and planting. I mention it in a few videos. I do it with plants like lettuce and radishes. Sow seeds, wait a few weeks and sow seeds again; you'll get two distinct harvests.
@@GardenerScott Two follow-ups: 1) If I can fit the three raised beds, would you advise me to shift the additional sowings into beds #2 and #3, sort of like shifting compost to another bin? 2) Realizing that I have a nice long growing season (albeit way past "toasty" in the summer), could I use the "stagger" on tomatoes/peppers/squashes, or is the heat my enemy?
Hello Gardener Scott
I plan to start my squash and cucumber seeds indoors. If i use peat pots do I use seed starting mix or potting soil for the seeds to grow in before transplanting into the garden. Thanks for all of your excellent advice. Mack
Squash and cucumber shouldn't be started much more than about three weeks before transplanting and a seed starter mix will usually work. Try potting mix in the bottom half and seed starter in the top for better results.
@@GardenerScott Thank You.
I am in a short season cold climate so I have to start my corn early.