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When to Start Seedlings
Adapted from Straight-Ahead Organic,by Shepherd Ogden.
One of the biggest mistakes gardeners make is starting seedlings too soon.
I know gardeners in Los Angeles who harvest tomatoes in January, but north of USDA Zone 6 you shouldn’t even think of starting tomatoes until February.
In USDA Zone 4 we start ours in two batches: A few in mid-March, and a larger group around the first of April. If the weather breaks early, the March planting is worth it; but if spring is sow, the early seedlings just get tossed out, as they are too big when planting season arrives.
That’s why it’s a good idea to make two sowings of seed, a week or two apart. If something happens to one set, you’ve got the backup. With two plantings, a week before and a week after the theoretically ideal planting date, you’re ready either way.
TIMING CHART FOR STARTING SEEDLINGS
Group 1
Start 10 to 12 weeks before the frost-free date.
Eggplants
Peppers
Parsley
Onions
Leeks
Perennial Herbs
Celeriac
Group 2
Start 6 to 8 weeks before the frost-free date.
Tomatoes
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Basil
Lettuce
Endive
Group 3
Start 2 to 4 weeks before the frost-free date.
Dill
Melons
Beans
Brussels Sprouts
Squash
Lettuce
Annual Herbs
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Straight-Ahead Organic, by Shepherd Ogden
This is a new and revised edition of Shepherd Ogden's Step-by-Step Organic Vegetable Gardening, a book that introduced thousands of gardeners to the benefits and techniques of organic processes. Although the author is by any definition a Master Grower, this book intended for the amateur enthusiast who is poised to make the leap to organics.buy nowrelated stories
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add your comment »Thanks for sharing that. Many times I am guilty online for assuming that everyone is in the same climate time as we are. Yet, In the same note...I think about it and know that they are not.
If I have confused you, sorry. It is just the interent brings people together. The other day a lady was speaking about eating from her garden, yet I just placed our last seeds in the groud. First thing I thought of was wow, you started those out inside to be able to be eating from the plants.
Hope I explained myself.
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What about us folks in zone 3?
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Be nice to have some info about non-USA zones, please you folks!
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In part, I think this is what happened to our spindley seedlings this past year. This year, we had a hint of spring early and then a return of colder weather; not quite frosts but far cooler than the package directions of 70 degree weather. We would have been better off transplanting our seedlings to the garden, despite the weather, and and taking our chances with the cooler temps rather than trying to hold them in the house.
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