When to start seeds wisconsin
When to Start Vegetable Seeds Indoors | Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Cucumbers and More!
hello everybody welcome back to
Wisconsin water garden a couple of days
ago we bought all the seeds that we'll
need for our vegetable crops this year
and now's the time that we're going to
start germinating some of the seeds
indoors and a couple of the seeds are
going to be planted outdoors as well
directly in the garden and today's video
is going to be all about that
what sort of seeds are you going to
germinate when and where are you gonna
terminate those seeds a lot of people
just aren't sure when to germinate them
to make sure that you have the best
harvest as possible that your timing is
optimum obviously if you germinate your
seeds too early you're gonna have the
the plants are going to be wanting more
than they're receiving indoors they're
not gonna have the right temperature
they're not gonna have the right light
yes you can grow vegetables indoors but
in most cases if you have germinated
seeds growing for for too long indoors
you're not going to have as healthy of a
plant as possible and the same thing
goes towards the flip side of that if
it's too long and we've we've waited way
past our specific point to germinate
those seeds they're just not going to be
harvested and the time that they should
be whether our hour constrictions there
would be like temperature like it might
be getting too hot outside for them to
set the fruit that they want to and or
it might even get too close to the fall
frost date but either way we get about a
hundred and sixty 170 growing days in
Wisconsin here so most likely you will
be ok you will get a harvest it's not
that this is do or die
most of the time you can be a week or
two or even three late or early
you'll be able to make do with it but
the more accurate we can be the better
our harvest is going to be I always
recommend experimenting and having fun
with your plants but when starting your
seedlings out it definitely does help
your harvest out if you do them at the
right time so I've got a couple of
different resources for you guys to
check out there's some great the first
thing that we need to do is figure out
when our last frost date is going to be
you can find that on the Farmers Almanac
just type in Almanac Farmers Almanac
frost date last frost date and you'll be
able to type in your specific area code
which will then relay information based
off of the weather towers in your area
that will give you an average last frost
date they also have this for the first
frost date in the fall
which is important for fall crops but
when growing spring spring crops you
want to know when that last frost date
is gonna be from that point you've got
to figure out what you're planting
calendar and schedule is going to be the
Farmers Almanac it has some resources on
that that we're gonna talk about later
but I've made a really quick and easy
guide for you guys for some of the most
common vegetables that are grown in the
garden on when you need to sow them and
germinate them some are in a group of 4
to 5 weeks and then we do a two to three
week group and then there's also a group
of seeds that are to be sown directly
into the garden now the reason why you
want to so some of these directly in the
garden is one they're more cold hardy
crops that can withstand the cold
weathers so you don't have to germinate
them inside you can just plant them
early enough in the season outdoors and
they'll do great
the main thing that you're looking at
for the other side of plants and
vegetables that can be sown in our
outdoors sorry is root crops you also do
not want to plant most root crops at
least I really don't recommend it
because if you think about it the
vegetable the actual meat of that
vegetable is the root itself so I don't
want to start growing them indoors and
then have to transplant them and risk
damaging that root in the process you're
gonna be much better off even if it
takes a little bit longer for your
harvest just to sow them directly into
your garden you'll have much better
results this way so let's take a look at
the schedule that I've made for you guys
make sure you do hop on Farmers Almanac
to find your last frost date and then
you're going to go off of this schedule
here on how many weeks ahead of that
frost date you're gonna want to
germinate indoors all right here's the
planting schedule that I put together
for you guys
this is in three different groups we
have the four to five week group the two
to three week group and the direct sow
group again this time is going to be
before your last frost date so use that
Farmers Almanac to find your last frost
date and then go back either two to
three weeks or four to five weeks for
these there is also some vegetables that
require more than five weeks like six
seven sometimes even eight weeks at the
max but these I didn't put on here
because nobody wants these things
growing for eight weeks in their
basement or up on top of their fridge
you just you have more and more risk as
goes on that those seedlings are going
to struggle and not be as healthy as
possible so for these plants I just
recommend buying them as seedlings and
that's why I didn't put them on this
list so first off we have this four to
five week group the reason why these are
4 to 5 weeks or that just that they take
longer and the plant itself needs to be
a larger size before we're gonna put it
outside and subject it to the weather
these are going to be basil celery
eggplants onions parsley peppers and
tomatoes as we all know peppers and
tomatoes especially take a long time to
grow which is why these definitely need
to be planted here at 4 to 5 weeks and
I'll tell you about these onions and
spinach in a little bit but here are
everything that are four to five weeks
there are some varieties of peppers that
need even longer to be strong enough to
be outside but make sure that you guys
are reading the back of your seed
packages when growing too so if you see
some variety that does not match up with
these timeframes that's just based off
of that specific variety so that may
vary a little bit but generally you're
always gonna be ok with these timeframes
right here so moving on to two to three
weeks we have broccoli cabbage cucumbers
lettuce spinach squash and watermelon
now again these are two to three weeks
because they're a little bit faster
growing and they might be also more cold
or less cold tolerant than the previous
group and then moving on we have the
direct so these are gonna be your beans
beets carrots corn peas potatoes and
radishes as well as any other
root crop like I said earlier in the
video you want to make sure you get your
root crops direct so then now the time
that you direct so these can be
different as well which I will talk
about very soon after we go through this
I'll talk to you about the direct snow
stuff and how you can know exactly when
to plant all these as well before we get
to that let's talk about the spinach and
onions
these here I have highlighted because
those two can also be direct sown
without any negative side effects as
long as you don't plant them out of
their calendar range like you're not
planting the spinach for weeks before
your frost date make sure that these are
still within the range preferably I
would I would recommend checking out
this calendar that I'm gonna talk about
a little bit and the same thing with the
onions you can plant these outdoors but
make sure you're planting them at the
right time so another great resource
that I'd love to show you guys besides
this calendar here is on the Farmers
Almanac and that's gonna give you some
dates for most of these vegetables and a
couple of other ones too so let's go and
talk about that one if you guys have any
questions on this please make sure you
leave a comment down below and I'll be
sure to get to your guys's questions and
answer them as accurately as possible if
you do have any questions make sure you
let me know what a great cultural zone
you're in and maybe even if possible if
you don't mind like what city that way I
can answer your questions accurately
let's go and talk about this other
resource the Farmers Almanac calendar
okay I hope you guys enjoyed that it's a
really nice and easy schedule that you
can follow as long as you have your last
frost date another great resource that I
highly recommend is the Farmers Almanac
planting calendar this is so useful to
the point where I recommend
printing it off and having that on your
wall in your garden shed or wherever
you've got all your gardening supplies
so that way it's something that you're
looking at often and after a while you
guys will on you'll know instinctually
when you need to plant what beginner
gardeners this is gonna take a while to
catch up on
but as you're working with the plants
over and over again year after year you
start to understand which plants can be
grown when but if you don't know that
even for people like me and because I
have a hard time remembering exactly
when everything's supposed to be put
where especially when you work with so
many different varieties of vegetables
it can be hard which is why I print that
out and I make sure I look at that every
single year so I know when I'm putting
my plants and if I am germinating by
seed if you're growing by seedling you
can usually just put them right into the
ground once the seedlings are available
because most nurseries do understand
that they're not going to want to be
stocking vegetables and plants that
can't be put into the ground because
they're gonna get a lot of negative
feedback with people that just don't
know how to garden correctly so if you
if you're growing seedlings from the
nursery you can go ahead and put those
right into the soil but otherwise I've
just found that it's really really
helpful to have that growing calendar or
that planting calendar printed off and
this also goes by your zip code which is
really great because it's super accurate
I think it has like a 10 day variance or
so something like that give or take but
most of these plants are going to be
able to withstand a some variance in it
it's not going to be do or die it
doesn't have to be exact but you're
going to be a little bit better off
being later than way too early as far as
transplanting in the garden and
everything so just take a look at that
calendar
it's a great resource I hope you found
all this information helpful I try to
get this out early for you guys because
I know all across the country people
have already started germinating this
seeds getting them growing indoors which
is one of the videos that is coming up
next we're going to be germinating our
seeds we're going to show you how to
grow them and germinate them both in
soil and then we're also gonna do the
fun method which is paper towel and you
guys are gonna figure out which one I
recommend the most base off of my
results so thank you guys all so much
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