I finally found a garden lady for the Pacific Northwest.Yes and she knows what she's talking about. Thank you for everything.I will keep on your channels.That's for sure.
Wonderful list. Just remember there are often times a veg that is an exception to the rule. One of those is a broccoli. Purple sprouting broccoli is started from seed in July and planted into the garden in September. It over winters rather nicely and gives you broccoli in March when you are getting your main garden ready to plant. I live in Aurora, Oregon and I've planted this broccoli a number of times with success.
Interesting. We live in the most northern coastal mountains of Oregon. We have broccoli doing quite well in our unheated green house. Also have snow peas, choy, green onions, kale, and carrots. Will have to try purple broccoli.
I love UA-cam sometimes it’s a little scary. Was planning last night what to start indoors with the family garden and this popped up. Just a little north of y’all in Stanwood.
Yep, I start tomatoes indoors in Western Washington zone 8 around April 15th. Patience is hard. I still hear my mom calling from the window to my dad out in his garden, " you're planting too early"...miss them so much.
I’m in NW Washington Marysville/Lake Stevens area I’m using SeedTime to help me. But I’m so glad to find more growers in the NW. Thanks for the list. My first thing to plant outside after I have cultivated the area is onions and lots of them.
I was just saying a few days ago that the robins are back and I have been loving hearing them. The birds singing is one of my favorite things about being outside.
We're in Leavenworth. There have been no robins yet, and we're expecting a storm starting Friday. I'm getting antsy, though. I can't wait to get started!
Last year you mentioned planting carrot seeds outside in March and I tried it, just for the hell of it and it ended up giving me carrots all the way until November it was great, will definitely do again this year
Yes!!! I love to hear that- especially because carrots are so fun to harvest and eat but also give gardeners so many problems with their slow germination (and water needs if planting later in the year).
@ yeah I just sort of set and forgot it, they are in one of my beds that dont get a ton of sun so they just took their time and other than occasional water in the summer, needed very little care from me
I live in zone 8b, in the pacific NW - just south of you. For years my fruits never had time to ripen, and died green on the vines with only very small harvests. I have a very fiddly (but very productive) way I have done my tomatoes since those first years. I've had success (hundreds of lbs) with this fiddly process. It's not for everyone, but if you're desperate enough and want to try something different, it might be worth a try. I start in February (first couple weeks), planting the seeds, and put them on the heat-mats to germinate inside, in a corner of the house with windows (there is some shade there too), inside an indoor greenhouse (it allows me the vertical room to start all the seeds). Once germinated, I pluck the duplicates, take off the germination cover, remove the heat mat, and put the lights on it (low so it doesn't get too spindly), and a small oscillating fan to get them strong. I typically up-pot to 4 inch pots and start a half strength fertilizer when they are big enough. Once the daytime weather permits, I set them outside in decent days, starting with an hour or two, and building up over the week to most of the day. Some years I've even had to up pot to the half gallon pots. Then I move them outside for about two weeks in a portable one level greenhouse on my back deck just to make sure they are really ready. I get them in the ground around mothers day. I save egg shells all year round, and pulverize them into a powder, I put one scoop of powdered egg shells, and one scoop of tomato fertilizer in the hole when I plant. I put a tomato cage around them, and cover the cage with a red garbage bag. The bag acts as a mini greenhouse, protecting them from winds and frosts (to an extent ) and allowing their roots to get established. I just leave them alone at this point. I might lose one or two a year, but the rest survive, and when I remove the garbage bags, they are lush, green and very happy, and summer warmth, and the threat of cold nights is completely over. I know others who have had great success without all this excess work, but this is the only way I've found to get the amount of tomatoes I want, ripened early enough to harvest, enjoy fresh, share, and save for later preservation.
So excited I ran across your channel. I'm in SW Washington, also zone 8. I'm only in my third year of gardening and learning something new each season. I'll be following along for all the tips you have to offer. We are expected to have a bit of snow in a few days. I remember getting about six inches dumped on us 2 or 3 years ago in April. That was a shocker to my plants and fruit trees. Every year is different. Happy gardening.
Yay, I love our area and trying to figure out the wonky weather. It has been so warm this month, I was worried about my fruit trees but luckily the nights have been cool enough to keep them dormant.
I started tomatoes WAY too early last year. I seeded 4/7 and they were outgrowing their 1 gallon pots for several weeks before it was safe enough to transplant on June 3rd. Even then, we still had lows in the mid-high 30's occasionally until the last week in June. Just north of Portland at 500' in a frustrating little cold microclimate at the base of some hills 😆
Zone 8 checking in and subbed, good stuff! I'm a chronic early tomato starter, but copying you and going to tax day this year. I just finished up my own greenhouse so will be doing some in there all season. I live in a swamp/prairie with rocks and clay so I abandoned the ground and went to planters 3 years ago. The dirt is pretty nice now. Enjoy the greenhouse!
Nice video, thanks, I am in Anacortes, last time I grew Heirloom and beefstake type tomatoes, I started them this early on my heat pads and grow lights, that was the only year that they ripened, I had them in 5 gal buckets so they never went in the ground.
Yay, I love to hear that. February is always my favorite- well, aside from starting tomatoes. I love when planting schedules coincide with a holiday- makes it so much easier to remember.
Really enjoying your channel! I’m in Skagit County and this video is so helpful! We moved to our property in April last year and I dabbled a bit with gardening and growing food and I’m hooked. Can’t wait to grow all the things. Looking forward to learning more from you.
Such an exciting time to get sowing!! I’m with you on the tomatoes! WHY, in Feb?? TOO SOON!! All my friends that do it, I just don’t understand the reason to rush…then they don’t do well!! I’m waiting till around the time you do! Very smart :) Thanks for the video!!
Great video, Kristi! Informative, concise and relevant. Please keep them coming. Thanks for the sweet pea tip. Didn’t know that. I started my tomatoes in early March (pnw in 8b) and they outgrew my space. Had to relocate them to my guest shower until May😂. I’ll try starting in April this year. The Green Zebras and Sungolds did amazing in our climate, btw. I started picking them in late June and they produced heavily thru fall.
Oh wow, a guest shower tomato garden, that is dedication. Thanks for sharing! I have to say, I have been there before. I also remember creating a greenhouse in my car full of tomatoes… 😂😂😂
I am Chomping at the bit!!!! Guess now is a good time to finish up ALL the FALL CLEAN UP... Dang! I thought I'd never say that again... kinda like making my bed every day... May be tomorrow...
Haha 😆 yes!!! You can see in the background my hothouse is a mess of old unwashed trays (why didn’t I was those in the summer) and a random hose 😂. My leeks that went to seed are still in with the strawberries and onions I missed are putting out new greens. I haven’t even been over to the old celery patch. But, I’ll get it next week “when I have more time”. 😂
I feel the same about our spring and summer…..hoping for plenty of rain and mild weather. Planting my peas very soon, with caution. Last spring, as usual, my peas came up strong and beautiful. That was about time when the robins showed up in early spring. The little robins pulled up our baby peas🫤we saved some, but now they were set back. I had to make a tunnel cover with chicken wire to protect the surviving peas. That attack always happens every growing season. Not to that extent. Watch out for your early spring babies
Issaquah here. Been a veggies and a few flowers gardener for years. Moved into an apartment so no real space and less physical ability to harden but I have plenty of info and experience if people need ideas and help. Glad to see this local info passed on. When I started there was only a few sources in public and the info was mostly word of mouth and from the Seattle tilth. I’ve learned a lot from learn by trial, mistake and improvement. So much depends on our springs and summers being warm and sunny and not long cold but you can plant options for both conditions. Didn’t know favas were a spring hardy bean. Good info. We are due snow this weekend so not much things will freeze or rot planted outside this early. Indoors it’s high time to start seeds. I have a set up grow shelf with lights and warming pads but the warming pads and lights take up a ton of electricity so just the lights works also. I used Xmas rope lights under the shelves for heat for ages and it worked great and less electricity pulled. And cilantro you are so right bc it will bolt like crazy in the sunshine days. Brassicas and leafy things and the snowpeas and such are always first and then indoor summer crops like tomatoes and peppers, herbs efc. The indoor list is huge. You need to have space to transplant your baby plants to bigger pots with adequate light and airflow.
I didn’t even think about it when I was so excited for sweet peas on my trellis and then in the fall I was reading about them crossing and I was glad I didn’t have any problems.
@littlerootsranch I was watching another gardener say that it is good to know ones zone (I'm 8b) but it's more important to know your last frost date, specially if you grow veg, do you use that theory too. I must say climate change is making it tricky for me to plan ahead these days.
Thank you for this!! I struggle with when to plant in PNW (live in Maple Valley) and tomatoes are always a crap shoot. April, though! Whew... tempted to try this, but feel they already have a short season, and basically just June and July to get to "red". So appreciate you.
West Seattle. I am trying to grow in a significant way this year in my little garden. We're now 9A. This is the first year I've ever done seed starts. I'm already out of room. 😂
I love these sooo much. I do have a question from last years January video, last year you stated you started your potatoes in January did you have success with that?
I live where I loose 6 weeks of growing time on both ends of the growing season. Zone 8b. Everything that is long term and heat loving, I have to grow indoors and keep potting up to get the proper growing season. I aim to harvest no later than the second week of September.
Zone 9a Austin my tomatoes are already 7 inches tall. I’ve started about 800 seeds. Mostly flowers and herbs for the swallowtails. Of course Lisianthus beginning of December
I live in Portland, OR. The weather has been crazy here this January. It hasn't rained at all this year and has been cold at night (for here) and warm during the day, almost 50°. I have been itching to plant, but I think this weird weather needs to break before I plant anything outside. What are your thoughts on that?
I live chimacum Washington off grid start tomatoe late February and put them in the ground hoop green house sometime April. We don't have heat mats we just keep warm wood stove until germinate and then move tomatoes to sun porch
I’m saladmaxxing this year!! I’ve got crazy baby kales and baby red mustard and my roommate’s chard going strong in the yarden this winter! Going to plant a chicory mix, wasabi arugula, and cilantro at the end of the month
Oh yum!!! I apparently have bok Choi growing absolutely everywhere, as well as Russian kale and well just about all of the usual suspects. And, yum on the arugula, that is one of my absolute favorites.
You know, I think there is a pride in starting tomatoes from seed, but it sure saves a lot of time and stress to buy starts as well. I actually encourage it for new gardeners. Almost all of the professional medium sized farms pay seed starting companies to start their seedlings because growers can focus on growing and seed starters can focus on seeding (what everyone is an expert in).
I'm in Stanwood, and starting my tomatoes indoors this week. I start small and propagate them till I can get them out doors. Generally my first starts end up in five gallon containers before they are able to get out side. I document and try different things each year just for something to do. One year I grew tomatoes in my office because they got out of control and it was to early to transplant.
I don't rush the hot weather crops - start tomatoes in the greenhouse, germinating on heat mats, in May, and don't plant out until maybe even mid-June. Then hopefully they take right off! Currently I'm holding till after this round of low-20's weather and letting the days get longer, so mid-February onwards to start my cool weather greens in the greenhouse. Peas go direct in the ground probably in April. I have also decided over time there is no point in trying to rush getting things started if they just sit there shivering.
Super hot peppers can take up to 30 days to germinate, 120 days from transplant to bear fruit another 2-4 weeks to ripen. That's 5 months. I've started super hot peppers already.
I totally agree with the later start date for tomatoes.They grow so fast, they can get very out of control quickly indoors. I am more aggressive with my pepper plants as they can be pruned to keep them under control, if needed. You may be right about the summer btw, but I hope not 👊🏻🌶👊🏻
Just starting this year. To be more serious . Amending my soil. And trying to learn stuff. I took. Few seeds and put them in milk cartons. Just to see what happens. Thanks 😊
South Everett here. You mentioned herbs, but what about dill? (I always love to run my hand through its fronds in summer and breath in that wonderful aroma! 🙂 )
I love dill too but it is a warm season crop. A rule of thumb is to direct seed outside when you transplant cucumbers (to sync up for pickles) or around May (late May is best) if not making pickles. Dill doesn’t like to be transplanted and will go to seed fast.
Zone 8 (or 9? I've been hearing that they upgraded us recently) in N Seattle. Thank you for posting this! I'm going to go ahead and get some lettuce/greens started in the next few weeks and put them in my wee little greenhouse, so they can go out in the garden beds once it's warmed up a little. And yes, tomatoes have to be started later or they just don't thrive here.
I use tolet paper rolls. Water from the bottom oncethe seeds germinate. B the time I transplant paper has alright already started falling apart. Just put the hole works in.
I agree that its better to wait then to start things too early. For me, plants just sit there as slug food if I plant too early. I've got my chickens in parts of the garden right now. I told them to eat the baby slugs 😂 I started peppers on 2-19 last year... waaaay too early and I got zero peppers. In May when I transplanted them in the hoophouse, they had extremely poor root growth in the gallon pots and stunted twisted top growth. They never recovered. Everything else grew great in my homemade soil mix, so I blamed cold overnight temps on damaging them. Tomatoes were started on 3-22. They did okay but they got transplanted into a hoophouse so that helped.
If your pee crosses with a sweet pea, you can eat that crop, but if you plant those peas, you won’t be able to eat the next crop. I keep it safe by not saving my peas because they can be pollinated by any P in around 3 miles so I don’t assume those are OK.
Hello, fellow Washingtionian!! I am so excited to get seeds started! Definitely will be starting inside. It's been so chilly. Hopefully, the snow doesn't linger too long! Thank you for the detailed video. You definitely reminded me of a few seeds I need to add to our spring garden plan ❤
Do you ever have gnat problems when starting seeds indoors? I do. What do you do to combat or prevent this? Thank you so much for posting this video. I love cold weather but miss the ability to garden during the winter months. Time is flying by!
I have good luck with a mason jar with about an inch of water and a splash of apple cider vinegar and a couplendrops of dishsoap. Also those sticky papers you can poke in the dirt work well for me too.
You know, I haven’t ever had any during planting season but in the fall it is rough. I do exactly what the other commenter said with the ACV and dawn and a little water. If you drink wine, leaving a glass out with a little dawn in it will do the same. Also, make sure to pour boiling water down the kitchen/bathroom drains- they like to breed in drains.
@littlerootsranch Thank you. I don't get them in my drains, but I appreciate your reply and suggestion. I think the ones I get are fungus gnats. Maybe I water too much. 🤔
Get the product mosquito bits. Soak in water for 30 or so minutes and then use that water to water your starts. It will kill the larva in the soil and then use the yellow sticky traps to get the adults.
Roots or things that are recommended NOT to start inside - (except carrots) if you start them in paper pots/ cardboard pots so you don't have to distrube during transplanting, and before they get too old.
I have tried starting to seeds no matter what time of the year I get lots of tomatoes, but my tomatoes and peppers even if they’re beef steak are always so little. I try to keep a consistent watering schedule. I just don’t know. I’m in Bonneylake Washington.
@@littlerootsranchhmmm, they obviously don't realize that you're "swinging your arms around" for air circulation in your Greenhouse. 😉 (Actually, can't say that I noticed. I just enjoyed all of your very helpful information!) Keep it all coming, please.
@kaydzambone4258 and you need to learn manners! Free knowledge being shared by an everyday human, how refreshing and helpful! I suppose if one is bothered by arm movements, happy attitudes, or personality, they could get off UA-cam and go read gardening books at the library 😂✌️ For me, I'll say thanks to @littlerootsranch for taking time to put out this helpful and entertaining video! 🙌
I finally found a garden lady for the Pacific Northwest.Yes and she knows what she's talking about. Thank you for everything.I will keep on your channels.That's for sure.
I am so happy you like my channel! I am happy to have you along and thank you for watching.
Wonderful list. Just remember there are often times a veg that is an exception to the rule. One of those is a broccoli. Purple sprouting broccoli is started from seed in July and planted into the garden in September. It over winters rather nicely and gives you broccoli in March when you are getting your main garden ready to plant. I live in Aurora, Oregon and I've planted this broccoli a number of times with success.
I've got to try this!
I grew this years ago and loved it -- so crisp and sweet, lots of side shoots. I need to try it again! Thanks for the reminder and Happy Growing ❤
And you don't have to fight summer aphids. Overwintering broccoli & cauliflower are the best.
Interesting. We live in the most northern coastal mountains of Oregon. We have broccoli doing quite well in our unheated green house. Also have snow peas, choy, green onions, kale, and carrots. Will have to try purple broccoli.
Hey, you and I have the same greenhouse! I am in the PNW too. Thanks for this video. It has sparked my spring optimism.
That little greenhouse is pretty nice huh? When I saw the automatic vent roof, I was sold. And yay for spring optimism!
I am local...Smokey Point! I am so happy to find a local channel.
Me too! Hoodsport!
I'm so close to you in east Arlington :)
That is awesome! We are all so close in the PNW. I love all the little towns in the area. Thank you for watching.
Sisco heights here! South side of Arlington, just up the hill from you.
I love UA-cam sometimes it’s a little scary. Was planning last night what to start indoors with the family garden and this popped up. Just a little north of y’all in Stanwood.
I’m in Gig Harbor Washington! You’re not far. Glad to run into another gardener here!
🙋🏻♀️ me too. But I’m a newbie gardener.
Me three!
Down the road... Olalla 😊
So glad to find you! It’s so nice to finally find a gardening UA-cam in my locale who can give advice relevant to our odd little corner of the world.
I completely agree- we are zone 8 but so is Arizona and Texas and we have very different weather lol.
Hi ya....in Olalla. Will be checking in often....so excited for spring.🌻
Hi! I don't think we live all that far from each other. I'm over by Locker Road. I'm so ready for Spring too.
Yep, I start tomatoes indoors in Western Washington zone 8 around April 15th. Patience is hard. I still hear my mom calling from the window to my dad out in his garden, " you're planting too early"...miss them so much.
Hi from the Bellingham area. Im excited to have found your channel!
Welcome to the channel! Bellingham is a great spot for gardening and just up the freeway from me.
I’m in NW Washington Marysville/Lake Stevens area I’m using SeedTime to help me. But I’m so glad to find more growers in the NW. Thanks for the list. My first thing to plant outside after I have cultivated the area is onions and lots of them.
I haven’t heard about seed time, I will have to check them out.
I saw a trick that works insanely well!! Put the carrot seed in the freezer for 12-24 hours and they will sprout within a couple/few days vs 10 days!
Oh interesting, I have not heard of that but carrots take so long to germinate so that is very helpful to know. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the info 🙏
Robins have been singing in my trees and I'm so ready for spring! Even though we're supposed to get a little snow this weekend.
I was just saying a few days ago that the robins are back and I have been loving hearing them. The birds singing is one of my favorite things about being outside.
We're in Leavenworth. There have been no robins yet, and we're expecting a storm starting Friday. I'm getting antsy, though. I can't wait to get started!
So excited to find your channel! We are in North Marysville. I will be following closely.
Last year you mentioned planting carrot seeds outside in March and I tried it, just for the hell of it and it ended up giving me carrots all the way until November it was great, will definitely do again this year
Yes!!! I love to hear that- especially because carrots are so fun to harvest and eat but also give gardeners so many problems with their slow germination (and water needs if planting later in the year).
@ yeah I just sort of set and forgot it, they are in one of my beds that dont get a ton of sun so they just took their time and other than occasional water in the summer, needed very little care from me
I live in zone 8b, in the pacific NW - just south of you. For years my fruits never had time to ripen, and died green on the vines with only very small harvests. I have a very fiddly (but very productive) way I have done my tomatoes since those first years. I've had success (hundreds of lbs) with this fiddly process. It's not for everyone, but if you're desperate enough and want to try something different, it might be worth a try. I start in February (first couple weeks), planting the seeds, and put them on the heat-mats to germinate inside, in a corner of the house with windows (there is some shade there too), inside an indoor greenhouse (it allows me the vertical room to start all the seeds). Once germinated, I pluck the duplicates, take off the germination cover, remove the heat mat, and put the lights on it (low so it doesn't get too spindly), and a small oscillating fan to get them strong. I typically up-pot to 4 inch pots and start a half strength fertilizer when they are big enough. Once the daytime weather permits, I set them outside in decent days, starting with an hour or two, and building up over the week to most of the day. Some years I've even had to up pot to the half gallon pots. Then I move them outside for about two weeks in a portable one level greenhouse on my back deck just to make sure they are really ready. I get them in the ground around mothers day. I save egg shells all year round, and pulverize them into a powder, I put one scoop of powdered egg shells, and one scoop of tomato fertilizer in the hole when I plant. I put a tomato cage around them, and cover the cage with a red garbage bag. The bag acts as a mini greenhouse, protecting them from winds and frosts (to an extent ) and allowing their roots to get established. I just leave them alone at this point. I might lose one or two a year, but the rest survive, and when I remove the garbage bags, they are lush, green and very happy, and summer warmth, and the threat of cold nights is completely over. I know others who have had great success without all this excess work, but this is the only way I've found to get the amount of tomatoes I want, ripened early enough to harvest, enjoy fresh, share, and save for later preservation.
I've also gone as far as putting heat tape 4 inches under the soil to keep them warm during morning frost. It worked but I now wait a bit longer.
Red garbage bags? Never seen them!
@@dvssayer5621 neither have I. I wonder where you buy those.
Cqn you share more about why red bags rather than clear? This was such a great read!
@@belugaflyingred reflects the far-red light up into the tomatoes which in turn is supposed to ripen them faster.
So excited I ran across your channel. I'm in SW Washington, also zone 8. I'm only in my third year of gardening and learning something new each season. I'll be following along for all the tips you have to offer. We are expected to have a bit of snow in a few days. I remember getting about six inches dumped on us 2 or 3 years ago in April. That was a shocker to my plants and fruit trees. Every year is different. Happy gardening.
Yay, I love our area and trying to figure out the wonky weather. It has been so warm this month, I was worried about my fruit trees but luckily the nights have been cool enough to keep them dormant.
Also very happy to find you. We live near Renton and I love to get good tips from gardeners in my area in our zone.
Many moons ago I used to work in Renton.
I started tomatoes WAY too early last year. I seeded 4/7 and they were outgrowing their 1 gallon pots for several weeks before it was safe enough to transplant on June 3rd. Even then, we still had lows in the mid-high 30's occasionally until the last week in June. Just north of Portland at 500' in a frustrating little cold microclimate at the base of some hills 😆
Hello. Nice to finally find another PNW channel
Glad to see a neighbor! I’m north of Arlington.
Zone 8 checking in and subbed, good stuff! I'm a chronic early tomato starter, but copying you and going to tax day this year. I just finished up my own greenhouse so will be doing some in there all season. I live in a swamp/prairie with rocks and clay so I abandoned the ground and went to planters 3 years ago. The dirt is pretty nice now. Enjoy the greenhouse!
Add tons of wood chips to the swampy areas. Call chip drop.
Nice video, thanks, I am in Anacortes, last time I grew Heirloom and beefstake type tomatoes, I started them this early on my heat pads and grow lights, that was the only year that they ripened, I had them in 5 gal buckets so they never went in the ground.
Huzzah, another PNW channel and grower!
Chehalis, here! So glad to find your channel!
That’s awesome! It’s great to have other gardeners in the PNW watching and growing with me.
was looking for this exact video and you just posted, perfect thank you!!
oh! and i usually start my tomatoes indoors when i plant my potatoes outdoors, st patricks day :)
Yay, I love to hear that. February is always my favorite- well, aside from starting tomatoes. I love when planting schedules coincide with a holiday- makes it so much easier to remember.
Really enjoying your channel! I’m in Skagit County and this video is so helpful! We moved to our property in April last year and I dabbled a bit with gardening and growing food and I’m hooked. Can’t wait to grow all the things. Looking forward to learning more from you.
I have been looking for zone 8 gardening content! i just started some seeds and have been feeling the winter blues! can't wait for spring!
I’m on Whidbey! I start peppers in late march and tomatoes in April! Weather has been so calm, so who knows.
Agreed, I usually start peppers before tomatoes if I am going to clip them back young.
🙏❣️😊 thank you, excellent content 🌱 so grateful ❤
Thank you, and thank you for watching.
I sow tomatoes and peppers in mid-March, plant the tomatoes out in mid-late May, peppers out in early-mid June, depending on conditions. Olympia, WA
Thanks for the pea pod idea!
Absolutely 👍 🫛
Totally agree with the seed starting in April and transplanting out first week of June!
Such an exciting time to get sowing!! I’m with you on the tomatoes! WHY, in Feb?? TOO SOON!! All my friends that do it, I just don’t understand the reason to rush…then they don’t do well!! I’m waiting till around the time you do! Very smart :) Thanks for the video!!
Thank you! I always start too late. This is really helpful.
Woohoo! Spring is coming!
I cannot wait!!!
So glad I found you & your videos. Super helpful, thank you so much!
In Sequim, but NOT gardening til after a move ( still in PNW) . Glad to have found you though
Great video, Kristi! Informative, concise and relevant. Please keep them coming. Thanks for the sweet pea tip. Didn’t know that.
I started my tomatoes in early March (pnw in 8b) and they outgrew my space. Had to relocate them to my guest shower until May😂. I’ll try starting in April this year. The Green Zebras and Sungolds did amazing in our climate, btw. I started picking them in late June and they produced heavily thru fall.
Oh wow, a guest shower tomato garden, that is dedication. Thanks for sharing! I have to say, I have been there before. I also remember creating a greenhouse in my car full of tomatoes… 😂😂😂
Just found your channel. Hello from sultan.
Hello there!
Love the little green house. I have the same. :)
Glad I found your channel! I’m local and beginning my outdoor vegetable garden this year. Thanks for the great information! I’ve subscribed! 💚
I am Chomping at the bit!!!! Guess now is a good time to finish up ALL the FALL CLEAN UP... Dang! I thought I'd never say that again... kinda like making my bed every day... May be tomorrow...
Haha 😆 yes!!! You can see in the background my hothouse is a mess of old unwashed trays (why didn’t I was those in the summer) and a random hose 😂. My leeks that went to seed are still in with the strawberries and onions I missed are putting out new greens. I haven’t even been over to the old celery patch. But, I’ll get it next week “when I have more time”. 😂
I feel the same about our spring and summer…..hoping for plenty of rain and mild weather. Planting my peas very soon, with caution. Last spring, as usual, my peas came up strong and beautiful. That was about time when the robins showed up in early spring. The little robins pulled up our baby peas🫤we saved some, but now they were set back. I had to make a tunnel cover with chicken wire to protect the surviving peas. That attack always happens every growing season. Not to that extent. Watch out for your early spring babies
Issaquah here. Been a veggies and a few flowers gardener for years. Moved into an apartment so no real space and less physical ability to harden but I have plenty of info and experience if people need ideas and help. Glad to see this local info passed on. When I started there was only a few sources in public and the info was mostly word of mouth and from the Seattle tilth. I’ve learned a lot from learn by trial, mistake and improvement. So much depends on our springs and summers being warm and sunny and not long cold but you can plant options for both conditions.
Didn’t know favas were a spring hardy bean. Good info.
We are due snow this weekend so not much things will freeze or rot planted outside this early. Indoors it’s high time to start seeds. I have a set up grow shelf with lights and warming pads but the warming pads and lights take up a ton of electricity so just the lights works also. I used Xmas rope lights under the shelves for heat for ages and it worked great and less electricity pulled.
And cilantro you are so right bc it will bolt like crazy in the sunshine days.
Brassicas and leafy things and the snowpeas and such are always first and then indoor summer crops like tomatoes and peppers, herbs efc. The indoor list is huge. You need to have space to transplant your baby plants to bigger pots with adequate light and airflow.
I always wondered if sweet peas would cross with edible peas. Thanks for covering that.
I didn’t even think about it when I was so excited for sweet peas on my trellis and then in the fall I was reading about them crossing and I was glad I didn’t have any problems.
Whhhaat!! I love this thank you! Yes Gardening all year round baby! Work the dirt!!! 🎉
Here from Salem Or. area!
I passed through there one time but it was at night (we were heading to the mountains to rock climb).
@littlerootsranch I was watching another gardener say that it is good to know ones zone (I'm 8b) but it's more important to know your last frost date, specially if you grow veg, do you use that theory too. I must say climate change is making it tricky for me to plan ahead these days.
Thanx so much for such a comprehensive info packed and timely communique. Gotta try the coulifloweryum.
Thank you for this!! I struggle with when to plant in PNW (live in Maple Valley) and tomatoes are always a crap shoot. April, though! Whew... tempted to try this, but feel they already have a short season, and basically just June and July to get to "red". So appreciate you.
West Seattle. I am trying to grow in a significant way this year in my little garden. We're now 9A. This is the first year I've ever done seed starts. I'm already out of room. 😂
It happens soooooooo fast and finding room is always the hard part- I feel you on that.
I love these sooo much. I do have a question from last years January video, last year you stated you started your potatoes in January did you have success with that?
I live where I loose 6 weeks of growing time on both ends of the growing season. Zone 8b.
Everything that is long term and heat loving, I have to grow indoors and keep potting up to get the proper growing season.
I aim to harvest no later than the second week of September.
Zone 9a Austin my tomatoes are already 7 inches tall. I’ve started about 800 seeds. Mostly flowers and herbs for the swallowtails. Of course Lisianthus beginning of December
Oooh, hot (cold tip) on the cilantro!!
I live in Portland, OR. The weather has been crazy here this January. It hasn't rained at all this year and has been cold at night (for here) and warm during the day, almost 50°. I have been itching to plant, but I think this weird weather needs to break before I plant anything outside. What are your thoughts on that?
I live chimacum Washington off grid start tomatoe late February and put them in the ground hoop green house sometime April.
We don't have heat mats we just keep warm wood stove until germinate and then move tomatoes to sun porch
Oh, I bet you have a neat setup.
I’m saladmaxxing this year!! I’ve got crazy baby kales and baby red mustard and my roommate’s chard going strong in the yarden this winter! Going to plant a chicory mix, wasabi arugula, and cilantro at the end of the month
Oh yum!!! I apparently have bok Choi growing absolutely everywhere, as well as Russian kale and well just about all of the usual suspects. And, yum on the arugula, that is one of my absolute favorites.
Only ever planted small tomatoes plants around mothers day. This year I am going to try all from seeds.
You know, I think there is a pride in starting tomatoes from seed, but it sure saves a lot of time and stress to buy starts as well. I actually encourage it for new gardeners. Almost all of the professional medium sized farms pay seed starting companies to start their seedlings because growers can focus on growing and seed starters can focus on seeding (what everyone is an expert in).
I'm in Stanwood, and starting my tomatoes indoors this week. I start small and propagate them till I can get them out doors. Generally my first starts end up in five gallon containers before they are able to get out side. I document and try different things each year just for something to do. One year I grew tomatoes in my office because they got out of control and it was to early to transplant.
I don't rush the hot weather crops - start tomatoes in the greenhouse, germinating on heat mats, in May, and don't plant out until maybe even mid-June. Then hopefully they take right off! Currently I'm holding till after this round of low-20's weather and letting the days get longer, so mid-February onwards to start my cool weather greens in the greenhouse. Peas go direct in the ground probably in April. I have also decided over time there is no point in trying to rush getting things started if they just sit there shivering.
Yep. I start tomatoes too early..I think ill wit til may this yr...we won't have much sun anyway thanks to the sun dimmer idiots!
Super hot peppers can take up to 30 days to germinate, 120 days from transplant to bear fruit another 2-4 weeks to ripen. That's 5 months. I've started super hot peppers already.
I totally agree with the later start date for tomatoes.They grow so fast, they can get very out of control quickly indoors. I am more aggressive with my pepper plants as they can be pruned to keep them under control, if needed. You may be right about the summer btw, but I hope not 👊🏻🌶👊🏻
Close to my home in Snohomish!
Just starting this year. To be more serious . Amending my soil. And trying to learn stuff. I took. Few seeds and put them in milk cartons. Just to see what happens. Thanks 😊
Absolutely, that is the best no hassle way and the seedlings will come up when they like the temperatures.
South Everett here. You mentioned herbs, but what about dill? (I always love to run my hand through its fronds in summer and breath in that wonderful aroma! 🙂 )
I love dill too but it is a warm season crop. A rule of thumb is to direct seed outside when you transplant cucumbers (to sync up for pickles) or around May (late May is best) if not making pickles. Dill doesn’t like to be transplanted and will go to seed fast.
Zone 8 (or 9? I've been hearing that they upgraded us recently) in N Seattle. Thank you for posting this! I'm going to go ahead and get some lettuce/greens started in the next few weeks and put them in my wee little greenhouse, so they can go out in the garden beds once it's warmed up a little. And yes, tomatoes have to be started later or they just don't thrive here.
So glad to come across your channel! I’m barely north of Seattle, in Shoreline. When does chervil seed need to be planted?
I use tolet paper rolls. Water from the bottom oncethe seeds germinate. B the time I transplant paper has alright already started falling apart. Just put the hole works in.
I agree that its better to wait then to start things too early. For me, plants just sit there as slug food if I plant too early. I've got my chickens in parts of the garden right now. I told them to eat the baby slugs 😂 I started peppers on 2-19 last year... waaaay too early and I got zero peppers. In May when I transplanted them in the hoophouse, they had extremely poor root growth in the gallon pots and stunted twisted top growth. They never recovered. Everything else grew great in my homemade soil mix, so I blamed cold overnight temps on damaging them. Tomatoes were started on 3-22. They did okay but they got transplanted into a hoophouse so that helped.
If your pee crosses with a sweet pea, you can eat that crop, but if you plant those peas, you won’t be able to eat the next crop. I keep it safe by not saving my peas because they can be pollinated by any P in around 3 miles so I don’t assume those are OK.
Oh wow, that’s interesting. I did not know that, thanks for sharing.
Hello, fellow Washingtionian!! I am so excited to get seeds started! Definitely will be starting inside. It's been so chilly. Hopefully, the snow doesn't linger too long! Thank you for the detailed video. You definitely reminded me of a few seeds I need to add to our spring garden plan ❤
Do you ever have gnat problems when starting seeds indoors? I do. What do you do to combat or prevent this?
Thank you so much for posting this video. I love cold weather but miss the ability to garden during the winter months. Time is flying by!
I have good luck with a mason jar with about an inch of water and a splash of apple cider vinegar and a couplendrops of dishsoap. Also those sticky papers you can poke in the dirt work well for me too.
You know, I haven’t ever had any during planting season but in the fall it is rough. I do exactly what the other commenter said with the ACV and dawn and a little water. If you drink wine, leaving a glass out with a little dawn in it will do the same. Also, make sure to pour boiling water down the kitchen/bathroom drains- they like to breed in drains.
Thank you! @@amehrman1
@littlerootsranch Thank you. I don't get them in my drains, but I appreciate your reply and suggestion. I think the ones I get are fungus gnats. Maybe I water too much. 🤔
Get the product mosquito bits. Soak in water for 30 or so minutes and then use that water to water your starts. It will kill the larva in the soil and then use the yellow sticky traps to get the adults.
Roots or things that are recommended NOT to start inside - (except carrots) if you start them in paper pots/ cardboard pots so you don't have to distrube during transplanting, and before they get too old.
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dont' forget those pepper take forever to germinate and grow up.
I have tried starting to seeds no matter what time of the year I get lots of tomatoes, but my tomatoes and peppers even if they’re beef steak are always so little. I try to keep a consistent watering schedule. I just don’t know. I’m in Bonneylake Washington.
Hi, are Broad Windsor Beans fava beans? Thanks!
Yes, the most popular variety of Fava beans (I believe).
I recommend adding timestamps/segments to help break up the video.
Ok, I’m dizzy now
you need to take a public speaking class....quick swinging your arms around
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@@littlerootsranchhmmm, they obviously don't realize that you're "swinging your arms around" for air circulation in your Greenhouse. 😉 (Actually, can't say that I noticed. I just enjoyed all of your very helpful information!) Keep it all coming, please.
@kaydzambone4258 and you need to learn manners! Free knowledge being shared by an everyday human, how refreshing and helpful! I suppose if one is bothered by arm movements, happy attitudes, or personality, they could get off UA-cam and go read gardening books at the library 😂✌️ For me, I'll say thanks to @littlerootsranch for taking time to put out this helpful and entertaining video! 🙌