Starting Seeds

[NCMedic]

Is it too late to start seeds indoors or no?

 

[Ikarus1]

Nope. Not for a mid June planting [emoji23]

 

[REELDOC]

What plants?

 

[Mirac]

or wait another 2 weeks and plant directly outside..

 

[chiefjason]

Go for it. Yes, you are late depending on the plants. But the other option is to buy them. We started tomatoes, cukes, and green peppers Feb 22. Should have started the green peppers earlier. They are painfully slow. Started zucchini and sunflower 3-23. Started beans outside and covered them 3-26. Just started a second cucumber planting today to string them out longer into the fall. Cucumbers and beans are in the ground now. Tomatoes and zucchini are begging to be planted at this point.

 

[NCMedic]

What plants?

• Blue Lake Bush Bean
• California Wonder Bell Pepper
• Marketmore Cucumber
• Scarlet Nantes Carrot
• Parris Island Cos Romaine Lettuce
• Golden Acre Cabbage (530+ seeds)
• Detroit Dark Red Beet (260+ seeds)
• Lincoln Shell Sweet Pea (100+ seeds)
• Black Turtle Bean (70+ seeds)
• Beefsteak Tomato (180+ seeds)
• Champion Radish (320+ seeds)
• Green Sprouting Broccoli (500+ seeds)
• Waltham Butternut Winter Squash (100+ seeds)
• Bloomsdale Longstanding Spinach (260+ seeds)
• Yellow Sweet Spanish Onion (145+ seeds)
• Golden Bantam Sweet Corn (250+ seeds)
• Hales Best Cantaloupe (70+ seeds)
• Snowball Cauliflower (285+ seeds)
• Black Beauty Zucchini (50+ seeds)
• Crimson Sweet Watermelon (60+ seeds)

Culinary Kit

• Sage (400 mg, about 50 seeds)
• Genovese Basil (500 mg, about 275 seeds)
• Leisure Coriander Cilantro (500 mg, about 60 seeds)
• Single-Leaf Parsley (500 mg, about 250 seeds)
• English Thyme (250 mg, about 1,000 seeds)
• Dill Mammoth (500 mg, about 225 seeds)
• Italian Oregano (250 mg, about 250 seeds)
• Standard Chives (500 mg, about 500 seeds)

Medicinal Kit

• Echinacea (500 mg, about 100 seeds)
• Cayenne Pepper (250 mg, about 30 seeds)
• Amaranth, Red Garnet (500 mg, about 600 seeds)
• Anise (500 mg, about 120 seeds)
• Mad-Dog Skullcap (500 mg, about 50 seeds)
• Culver’s Root (500 mg, about 200 seeds)
• Hyssop (250 mg, about 120 seeds)
• Borage (500 mg, about 35 seeds)
• Catnip (250 mg, about 245 seeds)
• Lemon Balm (250 mg, about 400 seeds)

Salsa Kit

• Walla Walla Onions (250 mg, about 50 seeds)
• Yellow Sweet Onions (250 mg, about 70 seeds)
• Anaheim Hot Peppers (250 mg, about 30 seeds)
• Hot Jalapeno Peppers (250 mg, about 35 seeds)
• California Wonder Sweet Peppers (250 mg, about 40 seeds)
• Beefsteak Tomatoes (250 mg, about 95 seeds)
• Marion Tomatoes (250 mg, about 80 seeds)
• Roma Tomatoes (250 mg, about 80 seeds)
• Grande Rio Verde Tomatillo (500 mg, about 150 seeds)
• Coriander Cilantro (500 mg, about 60 seeds)

Herbal Tea Kit

• Anise Hyssop (500 mg, about 120 seeds)
• Wild Bergamot (500 mg, about 250 seeds)
• Chamomile (250 g, about 200 seeds)
• Lemon Balm (250 mg, about 400 seeds)
• Lemon Mint (250 mg, about 400 seeds)
• Peppermint (500 mg, about 100 seeds)
• Echinacea (500 mg, about 100 seeds)
• Catnip (500 mg, about 245 seeds)

Organic Urban Garden Kit

• Large Red Cherry Tomatoes (250 mg, about 80 seeds)
• Cayenne Long Red Peppers (250 mg, about 30 seeds)
• Golden Wax Beans (15 g, about 50 seeds)
• Progress Number 9 Pea (2 g, about 40 seeds)
• Little Finger Carrots (500 mg, about 325 seeds)
• Evergreen Bunching Onions (250 mg, about 90 seeds)
• Summer Squash Black Beauty Zucchini (7 g, about 50 seeds)
• Basil Cinnamon (250 mg, about 130 seeds)
• Garlic Chives (500 mg, about 120 seeds)
• Amish Deer Tongue Lettuce (500 mg, about 450 seeds)
• Bulls Blood Beets (2 g, about 170 seeds)
• Champion Radish (3 g, about 360 seeds)

Pretty much any thing you would want.... Obviously not planting all of the them or all the varieties.

I used to have a website saved that you could put in your zone and what plants, would tell you when to plant, etc

The garden got back burnered and was trying to be proactive this year.. And here we are.

Probably will end up buying plants this year and trying to get this done for next year

 

[Mirac]

Yeah, I'd guess buying them this year to salvage the growing season is the way to go.
It never feels like it but getting your head into gardening in Feb. is when to be serious starting seeds.

 

[chiefjason]

First, check your county ag extension site for a planting schedule.

Your are too late on the green peppers unless you want harvest in about Sep. Way too slow from seed.

Probably too late for tomatoes for summer, but you could salvage a fall crop. So maybe buy 50% and seed 50% to save money. Unless you are canning and want them all on the same schedule.

Any kind of beans can just go directly in the ground in a couple more weeks. Same with squash.

Some of those are cool season and need to wait until fall anyway. I have some cabbage out but I'm a few weeks on the late end when I planted.

Throw some kale in there and it will be ok until it gets too hot.

Carrots are really slow too but you can still go from seed with them. Cut your soil with sand, they do not like hard soil. We do ours in a container just for carrots that we cut the potting soil with a bag of sand. We started carrots last year in April from seed and got a good harvest.

 

[Beef15]

Beauty of the Carolinas: Our growing season is generally very long. I'm late every year, I still get plenty.

 

[Ikarus1]

I never plant anything before May 1st. I used to start peppers and various tomatoes indoors. However my local co-op sells those same exact plants for $1 each and they are bigger than I could get mine started. Carrots? Cheap to buy even "organic". Same with potatoes, same with lettuce and most other cole crops. I plant about 15 rows of sweet corn since you cant really buy it in the same quality. Same with beans.

I just dont have the time and nobody else is going to assist in the garden. So i keep it simple.

However this year i did grow a cover crop of oats and clover that I need to till under this week.

 

[Beef15]

I tend to agree and disagree @Ikarus1 more to it for me than savings. I agree buying started plants saves a ton of hassle. However, the potatoes I've grown have been far superior to anything I've bought, same for greens. Carrots hate me, so does corn.

Now time is another story, so the garden is often an eye sore, but the plants don't seem to mind.

 

[Ikarus1]

Potatoes take up too much room for too long and they spread disease in tomatoes since theyre both nightshade family. If I have to choose, maters every time.