When to start planting spring garden
What and When to Plant for Your Spring Garden - Planning Your First Garden
if you are a new gardener most likely
you are overwhelmed at all of the
different vegetables that you can grow
what I would like to do is share with
you what I like to grow in my favorite
garden which is the spring garden you
know we have three seasons where we can
grow a lot of different things spring
the spring garden is my favorite so I
want to break down to you what I grow in
the spring and how I grow it so you can
start by looking at some seed packets
and these are basically going to show
you for your climate when you should put
these in the ground if your new gardener
you might not even know which seed
packets to look at so I would recommend
picking up the all news-graphic
gardening book and I always refer to
this it's such a great quick reference
and in the back you'll see some charts
and for instance this one part of this
chart I'm showing you specifically
mentions some spring vegetables which
grow very well you can cross-reference
the dates that you'll see in that with
maybe something that you can pick up
from your County Extension Office these
dates are very close they do revolve
around your last frost date that's very
important because a lot of these
vegetables you need to start them
sometimes eight weeks before the last
frost date I put my peas in the ground
at least eight weeks before my last
frost a about six weeks for leaf lettuce
and then you'll see as you're looking
into this more for your area you'll see
now what I'd like to do is break this
two into four categories for you the
first one we will talk about direct
sowing seeds this is probably the
easiest way to grow vegetables so I'm
going to give you some examples of the
things that I grow in my garden and
direct sowing is basically you just take
your seed you're going to put it in the
ground and water it it's so easy now
don't worry if you direct sow your seeds
and your seeds don't come up right away
they will when the soil temperature
reaches a certain point and that varies
for different vegetable which is also in
your book so I'm here just a couple of
things that I really enjoy growing the
sugar snap peas I already mentioned is
one of my first
and this is footage that I took out of
my very early garden so this footage was
taken in around April so I do think that
based on my experience all of these do
the best when you can direct so them
into the soil and let them grow on their
own I have tried to grow them indoors
then move them outside without much luck
they still grew but not nearest nicely
as just putting them directly into the
soil and letting them grow on their own
I do have a long season for growing and
have a nice cool summer now my second
category are what are called transplants
and these are seeds that you would grow
and start them inside your house or
indoors and usually we do that is about
six weeks that's just a general rule of
thumb before you move it outside into
your garden you just want to kind of
give it a jump start and sometimes I
will grow those vegetables indoors and
I'll have a nice transplant to put in my
garden and when I move it into the
garden I also throw out a few more seeds
that way they will also sprout on their
own and I'll have some fresh vegetables
coming up later when my first one has
been harvested the reason why when this
might beginning a little bit too
confusing and hopefully not but I have a
cool alone cool season so I don't get
into the hot temperatures usually until
July so I feel pretty comfortable in
April putting out some cabbage seeds
because I know that the days to maturity
might be 60 70 days and I can still
harvest that in June but if you live
somewhere where you have a really hot
summer and maybe in June maybe even late
May you start hitting the 80s 90s
something like that degrees well direct
sowing cabbage seeds and other cool
season vegetables is not for you you
will have to start those indoors okay
and then you can move those out now my
first year gardening I bought
transplants at the nursery I wasn't
comfortable with starting them indoors
and that was many many many years ago
but I just wanted to let you know about
trans
plants and on your seed packet it will
always tell you that on the front of the
back days to maturity it might just say
60 days 70 days but that's what that
means okay so use that as well in
deciding what you're going to direct sow
into your garden so here are just a few
of the vegetables that I transplanted
into my garden last year and I also
threw some seeds out for all of these to
grow on their own spinach is wonderful
for direct sowing as well as red giant
mustard or any other mustard greens
kales the same way so I do think that
broccoli is one that you really need to
start indoors
along with cauliflower and a couple
others those will be in your book as
well as maybe some information you can
find at your Extension Office
so our next category vegetables that I
start from what are called sets or
clothes or bulbs and a set is basically
like an onion set it's basically just a
onion seed that has already been started
it's like a small onion plant and it
just gives it a little bit of a
jumpstart on the season and sometimes I
will plant these in the late fall or
I'll plant these in the early spring so
these plants do very well for me in my
area I can usually overwinter these in
my garden but not everyone can it does
depend on your climate a lot of times
you can be on the safe side and just put
these in your garden early in the spring
now our last category are perennials and
these are wonderful and so what you'll
do is you will buy a perennial which
usually these are going to be your herbs
and you'll buy those as a transplant at
your nursery time is a wonderful hardy
herb that you can grow most of these as
I mentioned you do purchase as a
transplant but like garlic chives for
instance you can sprinkle out seeds of
those and they come up fine I don't like
to start perennials from seed it just
takes too long so those I buy us or
transplant so hopefully this has helped
you stay in your garden for this spring
and I hope that you have a wonderful day
and please let me know if you have any
questions in the comment section I'll be
more than happy to
P thanks so much for watching bye-bye
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