Aleksandar
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This article on the Almanacs website has great information about each variety. You can find out how many weeks before the last frost to start seeds indoors. : https://www.almanac.com/content/starting-seeds-indoors#
Find Your Last Frost Date by Zip Code: https://www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates
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Hey yall! Make sure you expand the video info above. I've included lots of links and resources about this topic!
I am a beginner gardener. But I was able to succeed in my first winter garden, I learned a lot from your channel, pls check it out. Beautiful winter veggies @tGXU I started most of seeds indoor but this winter I also started outdoors and I added some photos how I did them and they are actually ready to transplant now..
Hey. You are that little bit of spark I can go to when the Blahs hit. Blessings. Question, does the projected last frost date change from year to year?
I have learned so much from you!
Great tips, Love the idea of using a plastic red cup…… especially a recycled cup – You Rock!!!
Would love to see you still doing more of these how-to type videos!
I’ve learned so much from your videos. I had a garden about 3-4 years ago that failed miserably. After watching your channel I have a really nice plan set up, and am even going to build a greenhouse. Here goes 1 more garden in zone 5b Iowa! Thank you so much!
36:52 that felt like a personal attack.
Would keeping the plants in the greenhouse make a synthetic environment to grow in winter months? Also would that also have negative effects during the hot months?
Thank you so much for explaining the frost days!
Thank you kindly for sharing your knowledge with us. I appreciate you beautiful. God bless your bounty.❤☀️🙏
We use low tunnels to start most plants sooner. We made a tube bender and purchased 1/2 inch electric conduit. Bed the hoops to our desired size and cut off the excess. Then put plastic over it and anchor it down. It helped warm the soil faster and protect our plants from unexpected late frosts. This worked for most of our plants and gave us an extended growing season. With tomatoes we wait until the soil temperature is above 65 degrees before planting them outside the green house. We have used a low tunnel to protect them a few times.
On soil to water content when starting, coming from an amateur mycologist, we call this “field capacity”, the best advice I ever got was “add enough water to substrate that when you squeeze to ring it out, 3-5 drops of water when clenching the soil in your hand is ideal.” I went from mycology into gardening instead of vise versa, this always helped me.
I have heard that if you buy a non-organic seedling at a nursery, you can grow the pesticides out of them by watering for several days and not consuming until the cycle is done. I'm not sure I buy that…thoughts?
another good ass video! thankyou sister! God bless you and yours!
Hi Jess, I live in Central California. I've learned that nothing likes our "full sun." Also I am a super novice. I've grown 3 tomato plants. They didn't do well. I think another gardener said I should grow cherry tomatoes and romas? What do you think about types of tomatoes for really hot climates.
Risk of frost? What's that?! lol zone 9B here. Me also Why does everything say full sun and then it hates full sun? (Its 110*) We're still wearing t-shirts.
Really like Myer's method of drilling holes on all of them at once. I had done it one by one and that was a pain.
Thank you!
Great video!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Fantastic info! Inherited a greenhouse in my new home and am clueless. Feeling confident! And now onto deer fencing.
Is there a reason that you don't mix your own seedling/potting soil mix? I'm sure you've answered this a bunch, but I haven't caught it in a video. Thanks, and I hope you and the family are doing well!
What a great source of information you are. Good teacher, very informative. I don't have a question because I believe you covered everything.
The sponge analogy is helpful!
Thank you
I usually stab though a stack of a few solo cups with a hot nail. I think the other thing that makes the 4 for $1 seeds so cheap is there aren't very many seeds in the pack. That can actually be a good thing for people with a smaller garden who don't want to worry about storing seeds for the next season.
Thanks for posting this. I'm in 7b also and this was super helpful since I just started gardening during COVID.
I been looking all over for a homestead on the money I have which isn’t much. Does any parts of Arkansas I can buy a plot of land”2-5” acres without all the streets and busy areas?
Do you have a code for Bootstrap Farmer?
The urban farmer has a bunch of excel sheet calculators that are also super helpful for seed starting and gardening!
I get great info from you r videos and share with family in texas