When to start plants indoors zone 5
What to plant in your Garden in April [Zones 5 and 6]
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a new video alright so we are continuing
our planting guide videos as I promised
we're gonna do one for every month of
the year and this particular video is
for those of you that live in zones five
and six okay so we're gonna talk about
what we can plant in April in zones five
and six and this is the fun month for me
I think we live in zone 6b and there's a
lot of stuff that can be happening in
your garden this month not time really
for warm season crops yet but it's
really time for us to start thinking
about our cool season crops so if you
live in the zone six you're gonna be
planting what we're mentioning here
today you'll be planting those early in
the month if you live in zone five we're
looking at a little bit later in the
month for you guys but remember frost
state is your important date and we
ought to be you know somewhere between
three to six weeks away from your last
frost date in zones five and six right
now and so a lot of stuff that can be
going in all of the cool season crops
can be planted now in in this zone okay
so before we start with some of the
stuff that we can plant outdoors let's
talk about a few things that you can be
planting indoors so these would be
starts that you could be getting in
indoors and you're kind of we're getting
a little late for indoor starting with
some of the the longer growing ones so
like tomatoes and peppers if you're
still six weeks away from your last
frost date then you're probably okay to
still plant tomatoes and peppers indoors
any closer than that you might want to
actually buy some from a nursery because
they're probably not gonna be ready to
go out in time but again peppers and
tomatoes are definitely on the list you
can be starting lettuce indoors any of
your Asian greens Swiss chard celery
anything like that you can be starting
indoors it's probably a little bit too
soon to think about warm season crops
other than tomatoes and peppers so
things like squashes melons you really
only want to have those indoors for
about three weeks and so really you're
gonna base that
when your last frost date is so if
you're a last frost date it happens to
be the 1st of March are of May then you
might be able to get some of those
started indoors but if it's later into
may like ours ours is until May 15th
it's April's a little bit too early to
think about those warm season you know
squash family crops so that's some of
the things she could be planting indoors
now let's talk about outdoors there are
a lot of things that we can be planting
outdoors by seed Inns both zones five
and six right now and so just a ton of
stuff lettuce arugula beets radishes
carrots turnips parsnips spinach peas
Swiss chard Asian greens kale and even
potatoes now I will warn you on potatoes
if you're gonna plant some potatoes in
April I would say it would be a good
idea if you planned on having something
to protect them with potatoes are frost
sensitive they're they're not completely
destroyed by frost but they're fairly
frost sensitive so if you're gonna plant
them this early then I would recommend
that maybe you cover them up if you've
got a night where it's gonna be frosty
so either with a cold frame hoop house
fabric grow cover or even a sheet
something like that would be a good idea
to help keep that frost off on potatoes
okay also if you know if if we're
getting pretty close to that last frost
date you might even be able to sneak
some sweet potatoes in but again those
are very frost sensitive so you need to
make sure that you cover and plan on
protecting those okay and then outdoors
by transplant we have even more so these
would be planting fully grown
transplants out into the garden so
things like onions definitely get those
in early especially in zone 6 it's on
five people you may have a little bit
more time to get your onions in zone 6
get them in right away
lettuce spinach Swiss chard Asian greens
broccoli cabbage cauliflower Brussels
sprouts kale all of your berry plants so
if you're planning on putting
strawberries in or raspberries
blackberries blueberries all of those
plants
are hearty enough that they'll be able
to handle some Frost and so now would be
the time to get those in as well and
then if you're planning on using some
type of protection like with a wall of
water then you could be planting things
like peppers and tomatoes as well during
the month of April and I like to put
those in about four weeks before my last
frost date in a wall of water and that
will keep them protected and gives them
about a four week head starts so you can
get some tomatoes a little bit earlier
than you might be expecting so that's
kind of all the list a lot of things a
lot of stuff going on and next month as
we move into May then we'll really move
into those warm season crops where we'll
be able to be planting our cucumbers and
our melons and all that kind of stuff so
lots of fun stuff I love April great
month lots of things happening in the
garden so get out there and get going
because it's a lot of fun okay all right
hopefully this video helped you guys out
and this again this is in the next in a
series of videos we'll do a May video
coming up as well so make sure you watch
out for that and if you do happen to not
live in zones five and six look down
below I've got videos linked out to all
of the different zones from three all
the way up until ten so those are down
in the description below okay that's all
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