Thank you so much! Seeing your excitement is giving me extra motivation to get out to my dear garden that I just began last year. I have some companion flowers - calendula and marigold - that I started from seed indoors and I am hoping it's ok to get them outside soon so I can rotate more seeds under my grow light :)
Starting our own garden for the first time this year! I live not far from you (Everett) and this is the most helpful channel I've found for gardening in our area -- thank you so much. I'm learning a lot from you!
Congrats on the new garden!! I lived in Everett before I lived in Stanwood. I lived on a north facing slope so gardening was challenging as my small yard was shaded by the house. I looked for gardening channels before for our area and didn’t see any so I had to work up the courage to start my own and be comfortable talking to my phone, lol. Thank you for watching and I can’t wait to hear about how your garden does!!
So nice to find your channel!!! I'm in the pnw too and this is my second year gardening. Last year it was very prolific for a first timer but there's so many things to learn. Thanks for sharing the knowledge! I had no idea I had to wait the soil to dry. 😅
Thank you Denise. Last year was a great year for gardens- I know my tomatoes loved all of that sun. I think we are all always learning because there is so much to learn and new things to grow. Thank you for watching and I hope your garden does even better this year.
Thank you for the extensive yet concise list of what to sow where. Just what I needed. I’m nearby in Edmonds. Please keep the wonderfully informative 8b videos coming!
Hello! Thank you, this was extremely informative and i am so happy to find local videos! Im curious to learn more about potatoes and garlic. Biggest advice?
Thank you and thank you for watching. Potatoes will not grow until soil temps are 45 degrees so usually they are planted anywhere between March and August. I do no dig with them and the harvest is so easy. I will do a video when my potatoes arrive- which I believe is in March. For Garlic, fall planted in best (October/November) but you can still plant in the spring- the bulbs will just be a tad smaller and they might be ready 1-3 weeks later, but enough to still grow them. I will be planting spring garlic this weekend.
Yay! The PNW is really the best place to grow! We are building our farmstand this year and have done the CSA model in past years. Thank you for watching.
Thank you for watching. I think our area is the best area to garden in and today is looking like it is going to be a beautiful day. I love this time of year.
Loved your video. I too live in the PNW and grow a very nice garden each year. I start my seeds indoors in March and move them outside in April. This year we are rebuilding our garden into one more designed with raised beds, etc. We are so excited! I love Spring & Gardening! Ps We use lots of chicken manure in our soil from our chickens. Plants grow huge!
Thank you. Raised beds are exciting. I have a few in the front yard but most of my garden isn’t raised. I do love sitting on the edge of a raised bed, it is a nice place to rest. I just seeded all of my tomatoes and peppers and now I have to wait for them to germinate. Tomato seeding always seems like the real start of the season. Thank you for watching.
Thank you, and thank you for watching. This is such an exciting time because there is so much to start. I just saw today that my cabbage seedlings are just starting to pop up. Yay.
Great tips! I was surprised to learn you have similar weather to us here in Southern France this time of year. I’ve got greenhouse envy- what a great space ! Look forward to seeing more from your garden this year 😊
Thank You. It is interesting how Europe has weather like mine- more than other places in the USA. Every other state as north as I am gets a lot of snow and gets really cold. We have the mountains and cloud cover that keeps our winters mostly mild. I am just so excited for spring to come. ❤️
@@littlerootsranch Exactly, I thought your winters were colder in the PNW. Even if we didn't have terrible snowy winters like a lot of places, I'm ready for spring like you!
I’m looking forward to watching more videos on your channel. Hoping to start small this year as the years I’ve tried to do a garden I’ve gotten overwhelmed! I am in Tacoma so somewhat close!!
Thank you for watching. I agree that starting small is a good idea, it is easy to get overwhelmed. I started really small and I would pick a few crops each year that I wanted to master and I would do a lot of research on caring for them and just expanded every year. Even now, I try to only grow one new thing every year so I do not overwhelm myself.
This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you. My wife and I did our first real garden last year in Puyallup, and I’m expanding it greatly this spring. I’m curious about your greenhouse, did you build it yourself? It looks pretty cost efficient.
I am so excited to hear about you guys expanding your garden. It is such a fun thing to do. I am expanding my garden this year too. The greenhouse was purchased in part with a grant and I purchased it from Stuebers in Snohomish. The cost was about 10k and another 3k to have a friend help me build it (which took almost a month, not working on it every day, but most days). I had to hire a boom truck to put the trusses on. Getting it squared and lined up took the longest but saved time in the end. The cost of steel has really gone up.
We just finished building out green house, I'm in the PNW, material cost was about 1k, my husband is a GC so he built it for me. There are tins if ways to build simple greenhouses for inexpensive.
Hi Robert, thank you for watching. This winter has been so cold. I think I lost my outside rosemary plants, which is sad because I finally propagated enough of them that I wasn’t going to start any new ones. I’ll look for growth in the spring, but I am not sure they are going to come back.
Thank you. I plan to do garden tours as we get closer to the season and I am so excited! I always feel like a kid waiting to go to Disneyland in the late winter- so excited for spring and summer!!
Hey...I'm in Stanwood too!! I just stumbled upon your channel. I'm a total newbie gardener, I will have to keep a close eye on what you're doing so I can follow along in my own garden. Thanks for the guidance!
Being new to gardening is so exciting!! What size area are you growing in? Also, I am glad my videos are helpful. I really like sharing and encouraging others to garden.
@@littlerootsranch We are in town so all I have to work with is my backyard...although I have been eyeing my front yard as well over the last few days of garden daydreaming! 😆 So far a few raised beds and plans to pull up more grass for some possible flower rows, or corn, or pumpkins....my list keeps getting longer!
Hello, wonderful information. I'm in PNW, Cowlitz Co. I'm trying for first time starting seeds indoors (usually just direct sow outdoors), also winter/early spring sowing in my raised beds. I worry that the slugs will eat my seeds however. Question: should I cover my beds so rain doesn't get to them 🤔 I've never done that before. Great information thanks for sharing
Hi Susan, that is exciting. It is nice to get a jump on the growing season. Slugs are brutal in our area. We don’t have most of the pests that other places have, but we have a lot of slugs. Covering the beds, if you have that option, is a good idea to help them dry out and warm up a little quicker. Then they are ready to go when your seedlings are ready.
@little roots ranch feel free to follow me at Follow My Ride. You can ride along virtually 😀. I look forward to making more videos of my rides, product reviews, and gardening.
You have a farm in the country but a lot of us are here in the city buying our soil. Would you do a video for like... Balcony gardens and store bought top soil?
That is a really good idea. I have the next video already shot but I would love to do a video after that for balcony gardens and store bought soil, thank you for the idea. I did a “Growing in Containers” video that covers a little, but I can make something more detailed. Thank you for watching.
If you are brand new, I always encourage people to not start things too early. The reason is because plants grow so fast and folks get overwhelmed and many do not like being transplanted- especially when they grow too large inside. That being said, we are almost in March and there are a lot of things to start inside now, or coming soon. Happy Gardening.
Glad I just found your channel. I’m looking to learn about gardening in this zone and region. Currently researching plants and their growing schedules. Are there any plants I might miss out on this year if I don’t sow them soon? For example, if I’ve already missed sowing the Presidents’ Day peas, will peas planted later still reach fruition? P.S. If you can’t tell, I’m nervous I’m behind, but I know there are lessons I’ll learn from any first failures. Looking forward to following your channel this year. Keep up the good work!
Hi Tucker, thank you for watching. I totally understand being a nervous new gardener- that was me my first year, and for several years. The cool thing about gardening is that there is a lot of wiggle room and in our area, the only real guideline is error on later than earlier because we don’t warm up as quick as the rest of the country. You are totally fine to still plant peas, I plant in successions which means I still have peas to sow at later dates (and I have already sown some). The only thing you are close to running out of time with is onions. You can still start the seeds inside, or buy sets, but it is better to get them going as soon as you can. You want the root system to be as good as you can get it before the daylight hours start triggering bulb growth- you want to get long day or day neutral onions. Many gardeners start things as soon as they can, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be started later. Tomatoes are the best example of that. Most people start tomatoes way to early in my opinion but it all depends on what your set up is and what you can handle. When I start tomatoes, I am starting 200 of them so I don’t have the ability to keep potting up or losing any of them. If I were just starting a couple plants, I’m sure I could nurture them more if I started them too early. If you haven’t started garlic, I would get that in the ground as well. It is best fall planted, but you will still get a decent crop being spring planted- it will mature later than fall planted garlic. Fingers crossed and I can’t wait to hear about how your garden does this year!
@@littlerootsranch thank you so much for your detailed response! Glad to hear there is wiggle room for most crops. 😅 Onions will be my first focus now that you mentioned it. And I knew I missed planting fall garlic, but I’ll look into planting spring garlic. Cheers!
Sweet. I’m 8b too and very new to gardening. I want to grow most my own food this year. We’re getting some animals and all that as well. When you start your seeds inside do you use a light? I’ll peak your channel to see if you have a video for that.
Yay for starting a garden and getting some animals. That is so exciting. It is so amazing to grow your own food. I like to start as much as I can outside in the greenhouse, but early in the season, like now, I start everything inside under lights. Next year, I plan to use heat mats and start them in the greenhouse so wish me luck on that. I actually just released a video that talks about my seed starting rotation for inside starts because it is so easy to run out of space under the lights.
Where did you say you were located? We are down here in Lewis county were about 80 miles from St Helens. I'm just curious what plants do you start indoors and what plants do you set outside? I just found your channel great thank you Terry Sturgeon
I am in Stanwood, Washington in Snohomish County. So far, I have started all my onions/chives/leeks and some cabbages (red, green and Chinese), artichokes, dahlia, thyme, yarrow, sage, eggplant and I think a few more things. Tomorrow I will be doing a ton of more starts and I plan to cover them in my next video on Saturday. Thank you for watching Terry.
That is very true, especially non imported potatoes. Sometimes imported potatoes are sprayed with an anti-sprouting chemical so they do not sprout in stores. I grow so many, so I buy certified seed that has been tested to be pathogen free- so I do not introduce pathogens into my soil.
Late winter/ early spring is the best time. Don't prune until you see new growth in spring. You can just prune off dead wood or prune hard for a bushier plant.
I plan to put carrot seeds in over the weekend. They will be slower to germinate due to the colder weather, but they will be okay as long as the soil doesn’t dry out- which is fairly easy in our climate. March is usually the safest to plant carrot seeds out, but the weather has been nice so I am going to go for it a little early.
Thank you so much! Seeing your excitement is giving me extra motivation to get out to my dear garden that I just began last year. I have some companion flowers - calendula and marigold - that I started from seed indoors and I am hoping it's ok to get them outside soon so I can rotate more seeds under my grow light :)
Omg! It is so rare to find a local youtuber! I instantly subbed when you said Stanwood.
Yay!! I remember looking for other local gardening channels and it was hard to find others. Thank you for watching.
Starting our own garden for the first time this year! I live not far from you (Everett) and this is the most helpful channel I've found for gardening in our area -- thank you so much. I'm learning a lot from you!
Congrats on the new garden!! I lived in Everett before I lived in Stanwood. I lived on a north facing slope so gardening was challenging as my small yard was shaded by the house. I looked for gardening channels before for our area and didn’t see any so I had to work up the courage to start my own and be comfortable talking to my phone, lol. Thank you for watching and I can’t wait to hear about how your garden does!!
I'm in Marysville and this is awesome. Thank you
@@Jylane2012 so close!!
Whaddup my Washington State peeps
I’m in Everett as well as a beginner. :)
Didn't know I could start so much so early. South Vancouver Island. Thanks.
Celery is always my favorite because it is so tiny and cute, lol. The darn seeds are sooo small though.
So nice to find your channel!!! I'm in the pnw too and this is my second year gardening. Last year it was very prolific for a first timer but there's so many things to learn. Thanks for sharing the knowledge! I had no idea I had to wait the soil to dry. 😅
Thank you Denise. Last year was a great year for gardens- I know my tomatoes loved all of that sun. I think we are all always learning because there is so much to learn and new things to grow. Thank you for watching and I hope your garden does even better this year.
You are so fun to watch! You’re so kind and excited about gardening! Go girl!!!!!
Thank you!! I get so passionate about gardening and it just spills everywhere. 😅 Thank you for watching and commenting. Happy gardening!!
Thank you for the extensive yet concise list of what to sow where. Just what I needed. I’m nearby in Edmonds. Please keep the wonderfully informative 8b videos coming!
Thank you Christi.
You are most welcome. Happy Gardening.
Hello! Thank you, this was extremely informative and i am so happy to find local videos! Im curious to learn more about potatoes and garlic. Biggest advice?
Thank you and thank you for watching. Potatoes will not grow until soil temps are 45 degrees so usually they are planted anywhere between March and August. I do no dig with them and the harvest is so easy. I will do a video when my potatoes arrive- which I believe is in March. For Garlic, fall planted in best (October/November) but you can still plant in the spring- the bulbs will just be a tad smaller and they might be ready 1-3 weeks later, but enough to still grow them. I will be planting spring garlic this weekend.
Thank you for the informative info!
Your welcome. Thank you for watching!!
So incredibly helpful, thanks! I’m just starting my first garden and live in the pnw
Yay!! I am glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching and I hope you have the best 1st garden ever!!
Yay! Someone who’s in my area!
Our area is so unique from the rest of 8b. We have similar winter temperatures but very different summer temperatures and how fast/slow we warm up.
Thanks for the info!
Absolutely, thank you for watching. I love sharing everything garden related.
I'm so glad a stumbled upon your channel! We're a tiny farmstead in PDX. I LOVE finding PNW based content. Thanks so much 💜
Yay! The PNW is really the best place to grow! We are building our farmstand this year and have done the CSA model in past years. Thank you for watching.
Oh wow, you're just north of me! Thanks for your tips, much appreciated!
Thank you for watching. I think our area is the best area to garden in and today is looking like it is going to be a beautiful day. I love this time of year.
Loved your video. I too live in the PNW and grow a very nice garden each year. I start my seeds indoors in March and move them outside in April. This year we are rebuilding our garden into one more designed with raised beds, etc. We are so excited! I love Spring & Gardening! Ps We use lots of chicken manure in our soil from our chickens. Plants grow huge!
Thank you. Raised beds are exciting. I have a few in the front yard but most of my garden isn’t raised. I do love sitting on the edge of a raised bed, it is a nice place to rest.
I just seeded all of my tomatoes and peppers and now I have to wait for them to germinate. Tomato seeding always seems like the real start of the season.
Thank you for watching.
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Great video, was a good reminder if what I still need to yet going. 😀
Thank you, and thank you for watching. This is such an exciting time because there is so much to start. I just saw today that my cabbage seedlings are just starting to pop up. Yay.
Darrington here!!! Wow, how crazy you came up in my search. Been gardening here my whole life.
Wow, that is really close considering the global platform. I think our area is the best to garden in!!
I sow potatoes for St Patrick's Day in Ireland. This year Im trying a couple of rows now to see what happens.
Great tips! I was surprised to learn you have similar weather to us here in Southern France this time of year. I’ve got greenhouse envy- what a great space ! Look forward to seeing more from your garden this year 😊
Thank You. It is interesting how Europe has weather like mine- more than other places in the USA. Every other state as north as I am gets a lot of snow and gets really cold. We have the mountains and cloud cover that keeps our winters mostly mild. I am just so excited for spring to come. ❤️
@@littlerootsranch Exactly, I thought your winters were colder in the PNW. Even if we didn't have terrible snowy winters like a lot of places, I'm ready for spring like you!
I’m looking forward to watching more videos on your channel. Hoping to start small this year as the years I’ve tried to do a garden I’ve gotten overwhelmed! I am in Tacoma so somewhat close!!
Thank you for watching. I agree that starting small is a good idea, it is easy to get overwhelmed. I started really small and I would pick a few crops each year that I wanted to master and I would do a lot of research on caring for them and just expanded every year. Even now, I try to only grow one new thing every year so I do not overwhelm myself.
Very helpful, thank you! Zone 8b in texas.
Thank you, and thank you for watching. You guys have been having some crazy weather there no? Like cold temps in the past year?
New subscriber and new content creator. Love the channel. Thanks for the video. Up in Bellingham Washington
You are really close!! I am going to need to check out your videos. Thank you for watching.
This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
My wife and I did our first real garden last year in Puyallup, and I’m expanding it greatly this spring.
I’m curious about your greenhouse, did you build it yourself? It looks pretty cost efficient.
I am so excited to hear about you guys expanding your garden. It is such a fun thing to do. I am expanding my garden this year too.
The greenhouse was purchased in part with a grant and I purchased it from Stuebers in Snohomish. The cost was about 10k and another 3k to have a friend help me build it (which took almost a month, not working on it every day, but most days). I had to hire a boom truck to put the trusses on. Getting it squared and lined up took the longest but saved time in the end. The cost of steel has really gone up.
Hello neighbor!! Im in Puyallup aswell. Did a tester garden last year, going all out this year!! Good luck!!
We just finished building out green house, I'm in the PNW, material cost was about 1k, my husband is a GC so he built it for me. There are tins if ways to build simple greenhouses for inexpensive.
New subscriber happy I found this channel I'm New to gardening and live near Spokane. Yes this winter was crazy cold
Hi Robert, thank you for watching. This winter has been so cold. I think I lost my outside rosemary plants, which is sad because I finally propagated enough of them that I wasn’t going to start any new ones. I’ll look for growth in the spring, but I am not sure they are going to come back.
Some great advice there, I look forward to seeing your progress in the new season ahead, kind regards
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Thank you. I plan to do garden tours as we get closer to the season and I am so excited! I always feel like a kid waiting to go to Disneyland in the late winter- so excited for spring and summer!!
@@littlerootsranch , I feel just the same😊🌿
Hey...I'm in Stanwood too!! I just stumbled upon your channel. I'm a total newbie gardener, I will have to keep a close eye on what you're doing so I can follow along in my own garden. Thanks for the guidance!
Being new to gardening is so exciting!! What size area are you growing in? Also, I am glad my videos are helpful. I really like sharing and encouraging others to garden.
@@littlerootsranch We are in town so all I have to work with is my backyard...although I have been eyeing my front yard as well over the last few days of garden daydreaming! 😆 So far a few raised beds and plans to pull up more grass for some possible flower rows, or corn, or pumpkins....my list keeps getting longer!
i am in this zone and looking fwd to know more
Thank you for watching. I try to make as much content as I can and soon I will start garden tours.
I'm in Washington too.
I love gardening in Washington. I feel that we are so lucky to have a longer growing season. I just wish we got a little more rain in the summer.
@@littlerootsranch definitely needed more rain.
Hello, wonderful information. I'm in PNW, Cowlitz Co. I'm trying for first time starting seeds indoors (usually just direct sow outdoors), also winter/early spring sowing in my raised beds.
I worry that the slugs will eat my seeds however.
Question: should I cover my beds so rain doesn't get to them 🤔 I've never done that before.
Great information thanks for sharing
Hi Susan, that is exciting. It is nice to get a jump on the growing season. Slugs are brutal in our area. We don’t have most of the pests that other places have, but we have a lot of slugs.
Covering the beds, if you have that option, is a good idea to help them dry out and warm up a little quicker. Then they are ready to go when your seedlings are ready.
I'm prepping for my garden now. I also recently started my channel about horse trail rides and gardening. I'm in SW Washington.
Yay, a fellow PNW gardener. I grew up with horses, but it has been a veryyyyy long time since I have ridden one.
@little roots ranch feel free to follow me at Follow My Ride. You can ride along virtually 😀. I look forward to making more videos of my rides, product reviews, and gardening.
When do you plan the transition of cool crops to summer crops
You have a farm in the country but a lot of us are here in the city buying our soil. Would you do a video for like... Balcony gardens and store bought top soil?
That is a really good idea. I have the next video already shot but I would love to do a video after that for balcony gardens and store bought soil, thank you for the idea. I did a “Growing in Containers” video that covers a little, but I can make something more detailed. Thank you for watching.
Hi, I’m super excited to start my first year gardening. I have just one question when do you start sowing indoors? Are they also late February?
If you are brand new, I always encourage people to not start things too early. The reason is because plants grow so fast and folks get overwhelmed and many do not like being transplanted- especially when they grow too large inside.
That being said, we are almost in March and there are a lot of things to start inside now, or coming soon.
Happy Gardening.
Glad I just found your channel. I’m looking to learn about gardening in this zone and region. Currently researching plants and their growing schedules. Are there any plants I might miss out on this year if I don’t sow them soon? For example, if I’ve already missed sowing the Presidents’ Day peas, will peas planted later still reach fruition?
P.S. If you can’t tell, I’m nervous I’m behind, but I know there are lessons I’ll learn from any first failures. Looking forward to following your channel this year. Keep up the good work!
Hi Tucker, thank you for watching. I totally understand being a nervous new gardener- that was me my first year, and for several years.
The cool thing about gardening is that there is a lot of wiggle room and in our area, the only real guideline is error on later than earlier because we don’t warm up as quick as the rest of the country. You are totally fine to still plant peas, I plant in successions which means I still have peas to sow at later dates (and I have already sown some). The only thing you are close to running out of time with is onions. You can still start the seeds inside, or buy sets, but it is better to get them going as soon as you can. You want the root system to be as good as you can get it before the daylight hours start triggering bulb growth- you want to get long day or day neutral onions.
Many gardeners start things as soon as they can, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be started later. Tomatoes are the best example of that. Most people start tomatoes way to early in my opinion but it all depends on what your set up is and what you can handle. When I start tomatoes, I am starting 200 of them so I don’t have the ability to keep potting up or losing any of them. If I were just starting a couple plants, I’m sure I could nurture them more if I started them too early.
If you haven’t started garlic, I would get that in the ground as well. It is best fall planted, but you will still get a decent crop being spring planted- it will mature later than fall planted garlic.
Fingers crossed and I can’t wait to hear about how your garden does this year!
@@littlerootsranch thank you so much for your detailed response! Glad to hear there is wiggle room for most crops. 😅 Onions will be my first focus now that you mentioned it. And I knew I missed planting fall garlic, but I’ll look into planting spring garlic. Cheers!
Sweet. I’m 8b too and very new to gardening. I want to grow most my own food this year. We’re getting some animals and all that as well. When you start your seeds inside do you use a light? I’ll peak your channel to see if you have a video for that.
Yay for starting a garden and getting some animals. That is so exciting. It is so amazing to grow your own food. I like to start as much as I can outside in the greenhouse, but early in the season, like now, I start everything inside under lights. Next year, I plan to use heat mats and start them in the greenhouse so wish me luck on that. I actually just released a video that talks about my seed starting rotation for inside starts because it is so easy to run out of space under the lights.
@@littlerootsranch thank you and good luck!!!
Cool. So I can't get melons or cauliflower corn to grown. Out by 257th near hwy 26 had any luck with it ?
I responded to your other comment (on another video). ❤️
Where did you say you were located? We are down here in Lewis county were about 80 miles from St Helens. I'm just curious what plants do you start indoors and what plants do you set outside? I just found your channel great thank you Terry Sturgeon
I am in Stanwood, Washington in Snohomish County. So far, I have started all my onions/chives/leeks and some cabbages (red, green and Chinese), artichokes, dahlia, thyme, yarrow, sage, eggplant and I think a few more things. Tomorrow I will be doing a ton of more starts and I plan to cover them in my next video on Saturday. Thank you for watching Terry.
You can also just use any potatoes you have from the store.
That is very true, especially non imported potatoes. Sometimes imported potatoes are sprayed with an anti-sprouting chemical so they do not sprout in stores. I grow so many, so I buy certified seed that has been tested to be pathogen free- so I do not introduce pathogens into my soil.
When can I prune my abutilon? (Zie 8b)
Late winter/ early spring is the best time. Don't prune until you see new growth in spring. You can just prune off dead wood or prune hard for a bushier plant.
If you’re sowing garlic in late February do you still harvest it in august?
Yes, the bulbs may be a little smaller but still fine and harvest is between August to September instead of July to August.
When can we put carrotd in ground? ( pnw, oregon)
I plan to put carrot seeds in over the weekend. They will be slower to germinate due to the colder weather, but they will be okay as long as the soil doesn’t dry out- which is fairly easy in our climate. March is usually the safest to plant carrot seeds out, but the weather has been nice so I am going to go for it a little early.
I have friends in stanwood, cute little town
I do really love Stanwood. It is my favorite of all the places I have lived.