I like buying seeds from San Diego Seed Company and Kitazawa Seed Company. When you purchase seeds, it should have a packing date and expiration date, make sure to check these dates to know if your seeds are still viable. Equipment & the setup Now that you’ve got your seeds, you ...
Start cabbage from seed or transplants. Cabbage seeds are viable for 4 years. Start seeds indoors 6 to 4 weeks before the last frost in spring or 12 to 10 weeks before the first frost in autumn for a fall or winter crop. Start seeds in individual pots or flats. Sow seed ¼ to ...
Know when to plant seeds: Know the average first and last frost dates for your area. Refer to the instructions on the seed packet to determine how many weeks before the last frost date to start your seeds indoors for spring planting. For fall planting, calculate planting time by taking the...
If you know how to seed dates and pulls with women, and you seed often, you'll discover let-downs like my friend has, where you bring a woman by your place and invite her up, only to run into a 'no', largely evaporate. Instead you get girls to agree before you even start on yo...
Whatever the recommendation, once you know the length of growing time needed, simply count backwards from your planting date to know when to start your seeds. Still confused? Here is a simple example to put it all together! A Seed Starting Walk Through –How To Know When To Start Your Se...
If you don’t have your seed packets yet, the Almanac’s Planting Calendar calculates ideal dates to start seeds for common vegetables and herbs based on your frost date and your location. Finally, if you plant your garden with the Almanac online Garden Planner, it has all the planting date...
To start from seeds, we recommend starting chive seeds indoors 6 to 8 weeks before the last spring frost. (See local frost dates.) Transplants need good growth before being set in the garden. If you are sowing outdoors, do so as soon as soil is workable; they can take a few weeks ...
How to start seeds in eggshells Step 1: Gather your cracked eggshells. Rinse the cracked eggshells before using them. It’s perfectly okay to use unevenly cracked shells, as long as you have at least half the shell intact. Step 2: Fill each eggshell with seed starting mix. Arrange your ...
Start watermelon seed indoors 3 to 4 weeks before transplanting seedlings to the garden; set out transplants 2 or more weeks after the last frost in spring. (Seedless watermelons are hybrids; these cultivar plants are most easily grown from cultivar transplants purchased at the garden center.)...
Planting time: Most seed packets will tell you quite clearly if the seeds can or should be started indoors. For some species (tomatoes, for example), it is virtually mandatory to start seeds indoors in cold-weather climates. For other species it may be optional, and for other fast-growing...