When Do You Start Your Garden?

Hi everyone. I live in Northern California and I always start my veggie garden too soon. I end up having to start a second time because I get impatient. I am just wondering when other people start your "hot" weather stuff like tomatoes, zucchini, etc?

hey I live way over on the other side of the country and I planted some seeds recently and will transplant them outside in May or June, I would treat those like pot, wait till the temps go up and the last thaw and you should be good, as long as the nights arnt to cold

Thanks Dr. We have what I refer to as a "fake spring" and I always start my garden. Then it gets cold and rainy again. I always get "faked out." I think you are right about the time. I will shoot for May/June instead of March/April. Yo would think I would have learned by now. But it is so fun getting the garden going!

why not start them in your fabulous new room????? bring them outside when the real spring pops up!!!

Hey Loudblunts that is a great idea. I never even thought of it!!! Know you got me thinking.....I could get me tomatoes and such going right noe. Good thinking. I am hot on it! Thanks

not a problem babes. im still in love with your new grow area...


wouldnt need any garden gnowms/helpers would ya?

You are funny LoudBlunts. yeah i could use a garden gnowm to help diagnose all my rookie moves. I am making myself crazy. Every time I think I have it all figured out a new problem arises. I am learning as I go, but it is trickier than I thought. So garden gnowm, hopefully you are not like the Travelocity gnowm..LOL...I will tell my hubby your good reviews - he will be thrilled that I put it on RIU.

i've got 5 tomatoes started under a fluororescent light with 2 pumpkins and some cucumberslove those in the summer ont the hot days...i live in the northern US so it still 0-25 degrees F yet...don't plan on putting anything outside till about may..ish.

Tomatoes are great to start indoors and have ready for the season. I have early girls and heirlooms on a 24 hr cycle right now. You can be a few weeks at least ahead of someone planting seed in spring. I am really enthused about hot radishes right now as well.

Anyone tried Sungold tomatoes? They are a small, super sweet tomato that grows like crazy - 5 feet tall and the tomatoes are a yellowish red. They are my favorite! I grow them in big clay pots and they just keep producing tomatoes all season.

yeah.... those suckers have to be tied to a trellis fence or they'll fall over

I've got bout 20 tomato sprouts, 20 cherry tomato sprouts, and 10 basil sprouts going.. I'll have to try to get the spearmint to sprout again.. all under cfls right now... thinkin bout making part of our deck into a greenhouse.. we'll see..

I just threw away a bunch of spearmint seed that wouldnt sprout under cfl's. Must be a bad year. And i just found out i can't plant outdoors where I am at until the first of may.

It has been so warm here, I almost planted my veggies. I was almost fooled again. It has rained the last 2 days and it is soooo cold out.

40acres said:

I just threw away a bunch of spearmint seed that wouldnt sprout under cfl's. Must be a bad year. And i just found out i can't plant outdoors where I am at until the first of may.

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All my plants will stay in pots.. lol. They'll be outside but in pots.. I have a move in my future.. lol..

I kno the spearmint seeds take longer to sprout.. hm.. I'm gonna try another round.. make sure all of the soil is moist 100% of the time since they are sown so close to the top of the soil... we'll see...

wow hotnsexy im kinda dissapointed in no avatar. Don't get me wrong I have a beautiful girl, but your post are not the same. anyways back to the subject, I started mid february with 4 types of tomatoes, bell peppers, and jolepeno pepers the rest of the garden I just buy at a local nursary. All my starters are doing well except the damn jolepenos. I might have to just buy some of those later.

I have cool weather veggies in the ground already, spinach, peas, lettuce and a perinnal artichoke plant that is really looking nice this year. I also have a bunch of sprouts going inside basil, thyme, catnip and some flowers hanging out on a window sill that I can put out in bout a month. I'll start tomatoes indoors soon too. The rest of the veggies must wait till at least May - beans, cukes, melon & sunflowers are what I have in mind atm.

I really want to do some long commitment fruits and veggies, like fruit trees, grapes and asparagus but I don't plan on staying in my house for more than a couple more years.

I love growing fruits and veggies more than flowers - It's a neat connection to mother earth to eat what you grow.

Girly, I've seen online, can't remember the site, you'd have to look around, but you can buy trees mature enough to start growing fruit it's first year.. that way you could at least enjoy a couple seasons before you leave..

I gotta pick up more nursery trays and stuff today.. gotta lotta stuff I wanna start..

HotNSexyMILF said:

Girly, I've seen online, can't remember the site, you'd have to look around, but you can buy trees mature enough to start growing fruit it's first year.. that way you could at least enjoy a couple seasons before you leave..

I gotta pick up more nursery trays and stuff today.. gotta lotta stuff I wanna start..

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there are also some dwarf fruit trees that are small enough to stay in containers, but they still produce fruit.

gogrow said:

there are also some dwarf fruit trees that are small enough to stay in containers, but they still produce fruit.

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Funny, this was the exact thought I had yest. when running errands, came back in here today to suggest the dwarf trees. LOL... I seen a few of those- pretty heavy yeilders for the size.. you'd be surprised..