If you pinch your sweet pea seedlings back to first group of leaves they'll get stronger and give more shoots thus more flowers! I love sweetpeas! The scent is heavenly.
Hi, we are a very mini cut flower farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Love your videos and information! A couple of tips that work for us. We use a popsicle sharpened to a point. Wet the tip and the seed stick until placed on the soil. On sweet peas, we put them out in our unheated propagation house to grow before planting. They do real well in the cold temps even into the 20s. Makes a stronger plant.. Just some things that work for us. Happy Growing!
I’m getting ready to start some sweet peas and this was exactly the information I was looking for. I have a cold frame we built with cattle panels and 6 mil plastic and my plan was to plant my sweet peas in a winstrip 72 tray and put them out there with a tray greenhouse dome over it for some additional protection. I figured I could just pot them up if I need to and leave them in there between the kale and lettuce patch.
Wow, Laura! You are up to 688,000 viewers! 💚💙💚 You are loved and do such a wonderful job inspiring all of us. I love watching your videos with my morning coffee. Thank you so much for doing this for us!!💖 I also love how you detail each process with how well you explain things. Love it!!
Lol 😂 it’s really true though! I grew up in TX & MS & moved as an adult to Montana. Sunny & 35 here feels amazing & warm, especially after really cold days. But I remember 40 in Mississippi was cold!
What a beautiful space/estate you have. I would be sleeping on this lounge chair with the "babies" cuddles up like in a cradle with a veil. Thanks for all of your nice planting tips.
I'm starting too many to mention!! 1st year flower farming!!! And market garden. Getting ready for the season. It feels like F I R E W O R K S!! I was once a former plant killer, I will admit it. I've had fun watching and learning with everyone. I really look forward to the upcoming year. New Homestead, starting a business with my best friend and I plan on hitting the ground running! TFS Laura. I will start with 1.6 acres to fill every space. It's a blank canvas. TFS Laura.
I also pinch my sweet pea seedlings. When growing on trellises that are as short as the beautiful ones you’re using, you may want to consider this, too! Your p,ants will be slightly shorter and much fuller with more flowers.
I pinch when there are 4 leaf sets, or when they’re about 6”-8” tall. I start my sweet peas in ‘root trainer’ seed trays (check out Gardener’s Supply for them) quite a few weeks early, specifically so I can pinch them sometimes more than once, i.e. pinch the firs growth, then two weeks or so later, pinch the dual stems that result from the first pinch. You end up with very full, bushy, tall, bloom crazy plants. Pinch no more than twice or you just stunt them.
@gardenanswer I know you are a fan of Monty Don, I can't grow sweet peas here in Georgia but.. he always trims his sweet peas before planting he says it gives you a bushier plant and more flowers.
I had good success with sweet peas last year - I didn’t pinch them back but I did plant them deeply when I took them outside. They bloomed until November.
I’m excited to see progress of sweet peas, my grandma grew them every year. As a child I would smell them, what a delightful memory. Such lovely colors.
I wintered sowed 2 envelopes of foxglove 2 years ago... Last season (2019) I had soooooo many. It's worth the 2 year wait. It's that feeling you get like when the new tulips come up in spring but better 😍😍😍 It's much more satisfying to me to grow everything by seed... Well-- almost everything. I also grow around 100 dahlia tubers each year. If all my tubers store successfully-- hoping to plant 300+ Delphinium can be tricky to winter sow. Though the shorter delphs do very nicely-- easy to start. Snapdragons, Bells of Ireland, Nicotiana, Tall Chinese forget me nots, & my favorite... Larkspur are always a must.
I will start my winter sowing this weekend. I've had success growing seedlings this way, the key is patience, patience, and more patience! When I tried the winter sowing method for the first time nine years ago, I was checking on the milk jugs every day or two. Then I finally gave up and forgot about them, because I figured it wasn't going to work. However, when the soil temp was warm enough, nearly all (a good 95%) of my seeds had sprouted. I'm in zone 5a and I am still planting lots of different flowers and veggie seeds this way. By the first part of March, I will have milk jugs sitting all over my patio.
Margie Schaecher-Thank you for sharing your experience with the outdoor seed starting! What flowers have you had success with? I’m more interested in flowers than vegetables gardening! I’m sisters are ALL OVER THE vegetables 🍅 🌽 🌶 Don’t get me wrong-I love fresh produce!!! Just not in my garden! Lol Sherry-Knoxville
I have never planted from seeds and to try this year. I have foxgloves, hollyhocks, lupine, sweet elysium, irish moss and cosmos. Have you started any of these from seeds? I dont have grow lights so I thought I might try some winter snow. Any advice would be great!
@@wendypalmer7798, I've never planted seeds of Irish moss or foxgloves, but the rest I've had good luck with. One thing I found helpful was, only use a couple pieces of tape to hold the top closed. This way it's much easier to lift the top of the milk jug on sunny days to keep the heat from building up inside the jugs and cooking your seedlings. Also, air gets drawn in at the loosely fitted sides and vents out the open top of the milk jugs, remember to throw the caps away, rain and snow need to get in. Have fun and good luck! I'm curious, what zone are you in?
My favorite thing about your videos are your HONESTY about what your experiences with all your plantings, and also those sweet comments about your personality. I Love how you will need to move the one person chaise lounge to the barn, although it is lovely, it is Impractical. Ha ha.
I love how you say “ it’s warm today, it’s in the 40’s”. Lol I can’t wait to see how the sweet peas do. I’m very sentimental about sweet peas and i didn’t have luck growing them last year!
Oh I love sweet peas, they were my mom's favorite flower and my dad always planted a bunch in his garden just for her, and I think this year I will be planting a row of them in memory of my mom, she would love that and then I can think of her when I see and smell them. Thanks so much for this seedling video it was a great one, I just wish that it was warmer here in Idaho so I could do this. I also love Foxglove they are such a beautiful flower.
Hi, I know this video is 4 years old, but just wanted to add that I think the reason why the sweet peas are so leggy is they need a much deeper pot to grow in as they have very long roots that grow a lot before a lot of the top growth happens. If the roots don't have enough room to grow the top growth will be stringy and week. They shouldn't need help standing up if this is addressed. And will be much, much stronger. Happy gardening.💗
I'm part of the maintenance / landscape / beautification team at church and one of our deacons wants sunflowers. I've also found a dormant forsythia plant for the landscape and hope to add planters with yellow calendula. Hopefully all that sprouts is gold!
Laura: thank you ! While I’m not remotely inspired to plant seeds- you did inspire me to clean up my greenhouse with the neglected over wintered plants. And for that- I’m grateful!
In my cold/frame little shed greenhouse I have some differing lettuces started. I am also rooting some varigated wandering jew from a mother plant to use as spillers in summer pots, as well as sweet peas too! I make use of clear bubble wrap from shipments to wrap around pots and tent over the pots. It works pretty well in addition to some frost cloth. I have a heater for bitter nights. However, I am in zone 7b and I am not quite as cold.
One of your viewers wrote that we need patience, patience and more patience. I am trying jug planting for the first time so I will be practicing as much patience as I can in Zone 5.
Being in Halifax, Nova Scotia our plant out date can be as late as mid June! I am chomping at the bit to get started though. I’ve got my whole system set up and just had to start some herbs that I figure I can continue to grow in pots inside. I so envy you your winter/spring weather but absolutely could not handle the summer heat. You and Aaron rock, by the way.
Your flower seed starting videos have inspired me this year to save some money & try and start annual flowers in my own garden. It’s been fun & exciting so far. Even my 9-year-old daughter is helping me & she loves it! Thank you for always sharing 💗
Laura totally off topic but would love to see more cooking videos! I’m so intrigued with American cooking and the different things you cook over there. Keep em comin!!
My friend, who is a trained chef, would not, lol. He cringes anytime he watches someone mishandle a knife or cut something incorrectly. After a minute or two, he has a migraine from rolling his eyes ha ha ha ha ha. It's torture for him. Some things bug me but I don't get mental over it.
If you are interested in gardening and American cooking there’s another TH-cam channel that I follow called “Rainbow Gardens” I especially like that she uses stuff from Aldi’s.
@@kristyplotecki1862 Perhaps but a gardening channel? One where the person running the channel isn't a professional cook/chef? Martha Stewart isn't a professional chef, but she quite frequently would have a professional either on screen or off screen advising her. Some things regarding food preparation she was trained in, like canning. I watched her make Italian sauce from tomatoes and then watched her do the canning process. Laura (to my knowledge) isn't trained in any of that. Is she competent in the kitchen? Looks that way but I'm a little on the "no" side of watching my favorite gardening channel morph into a quasi-cooking channel. Once in a while? Sure. All the time. Mmmm, nah. Just one person's opinion.
Good and timely! Just getting started for the first time with my grow light. I ordered those same trays. They look so perfect. Very excited. I got some sweet pea seeds too. And basically every other seed under the sun with absolutely no place to plant them. 😂🙈
I enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait for my seeds to arrive! They’re cut flowers and it’s going to be my first time growing them. I ordered China Aster Towers Chamois, Statice QIS pastel mix, Larkspur QIS White, Stock Quartet mix, Baby’s Breath Snowflake, Cress wrinkled crinkled crumpled, Calendula Orange Flash andCarnation Chabaud Orange Sherbet. This is all new to me, I hope I’ll have some success. I’m also a very excited and pretty impatient gardener. My husband and I live close to the Ottawa area and my tomato and jalapeño seedlings are already up. 😁
I’m trying winter sowing with some echinacea, black eyed Susan’s, sweet peas and a few different types of poppy’s. I also have bells of Ireland, zinnias, and oh man I can’t remember my full list!!
Hi Laura, I have started some sweet peas too and some have germinated. I'm waiting for the rest to germinate and then I will put them outside in my little greenhouse. I've heard that this will encourage root growth rather than stem growth and you will have a stronger plant. This is the first time I am doing this so fingers crossed!😁 Love you guys, I look forward to seeing your videos ❤
Another tall spikey flower that you may enjoy - especially for your Moon Garden - would be Night Scented Nicotinia (or Woodland Tobacco). Has huge white tubular flowers that release a wonderful scent at night. Also, are the Foxgloves hard to sew in place in Eastern Oregon? Where I live here on the Western side we have always just been able to sew seeds striaght to areas we wany them to grow. Ones that come up in Spring (in other words, reseed themselves)- if not where we want - are always easy to dig up & transplant. But those white ones are going to look awesome in your Moon/White Garden too!!!
you are a seed planting machine!! i love how you have your system all worked out, with locations of pots and things to move pots and etc etc... it's quite the efficient operation! it dawned on me while watching that my seeds fail probably because i never knew to use seeding soil, lol...oy... i usually don't plant seeds because, frankly, we can get bedding plants pretty inexpensively and i don't have to deal with trying to find a place for seeds (no room inside and a very small property outside)... but i am going to try the bucket method and see how that works for me... i cannot wait to see your cutting garden... that will be one of the many highlights of your garden tour in june, i'm sure - lucky ticketholders!!! i love your idea of a bistro set in the sunroom, but Russell may not like losing his special sunspot!!
Thank you Laura. I have tried 2 years in a row to grow Sea Holly/Eryngium....with NO seedlings coming up! They are spectacular, will keep trying. Good luck with yours.
I'm in Central North Carolina. I have a small greenhouse that we heat when it drops below 30 degrees. I've just started hyssop and milkweed along with leeks spinach and Swiss chard. This week I'm starting some basil and delphiniums. Thanks for the information on your videos. It's a huge help.
@@nicoladoering5030 Works fine for me. I do it with foxgloves..so I always have some coming up. They're my favorites. Plus- they self seed a little. Now I'm in Ga where the winters are mild.Also- I must add- my garden is a cottage garden so I don't have as much ordered plantings as the fabulous Laura.
It's so exciting watching your videos....from all that snow in your garden...its now green leaves....SPRING'S in the air... Thanks so much for sharing...💖💝
Hi Laura! I absolutely love your videos and you inspire me to try new and creative ideas in my terrace garden! I love the amount of meticulous planning you put into making these videos and editing in old videos from your archives according to relevance. You’re brilliant and you’re truly inspiring a lot of people into getting their hands dirty. More power time you! And so much love from India!
This is therapy for me since all the schools are closed for blowing drifting snow today. Still I started some arugala and lettuce... Zone 3-4 is the best though- just saying!
I started the jug method around the same time as you did. I have some sweet alyssum sprouting up, Very exciting. I’m in zone 8b....i think. Near Salem OR. Love all your videos, you are my go too for good info and motivation. 💚💚
We still have another month at least before we start seeds up here. I watch your video's and am all excited to start seeds. Then i remember that i'm in a zone 2. Nope. I'll enjoy the process through you. Thank you.
Thanks for showing your seed starting process. I happy to see what other people do, and what I should expect. In the past I’ve attempted to start seeds but I’ve not had a lot of success. I’m trying again this year because I have lots of pots to fill and would like to have a few pots started from seeds. I’m headed to my garden center to see what I can find.
I’ve started winter sowing several seeds! Sweet William, Delphinium, Lupine, Carnation, Pansy, Snap Dragon, Alyssum (which has already sprouted), Impatiens and Zinnias! So excited for the plants 🌱!!
I am itching to start my zinnia here in Georgia, but I know it is too early 😬. Can’t wait to watch you create a beautiful cut garden in the vegetable garden!
Laura - Thanks for wonderful videos. I learn so much from watching them. I have started Zinnias, Marigolds and Sunflowers. I purchased 2 raise bed kits and will install them tomorrow. I had a load of garden soil delivered today. I live in Southeast Texas in zone 9.
Pinch your sweet peas back to the first set of leaves, they will be much bushier and you’ll get three times as many flowers, I know it’s tempting to try and let them grow up the trellis quickly but it is only the beginning of February, there is still lots of time
You should pinch the tip of sweet peas to make them side shoot. You should get one plant with 3 shoots on each. Leggy is not good. Also sweet peas don't need heat, as you have seen they just grow too fast. Here in England we sew sweet peas in January and as soon as you get r orc5 leaves you pinch tge tip out and you keep them in a cold frame till you are ready to plant out. You can also direct sew about April /May straight in tge soil. They are really hardy
Love your videos, so packed full of useful info and no fat, all protein talk, if you get my drift. But what I want to compliment you and your husband on is that you two have got the video making down pat. That is a skill in itself. The audio is exceptionally good, and I just stopped at 15:11 to write you because of the fabulous speeded-up soft sounds to go with your fast-forward transplanting of sweet peas. That is some great editing. Also it was funny and heartwarming when he followed you on the long trek from greenhouse to "upstairs" where you germinate seeds under a light. I liked that; it is story telling, it is quotidian non-fiction. so KUDOS on the video-making.
Hey laura, absolutely love you!! Just letting you know I am growing pumpkins, mangoes, strawberries, tomatoes, shallots and potatoes. All of this has been inspired by you!
Starting,foxglove 1st year bloomers,sweet peas,zinnias,hollyhock,cosmos,day lilies,2 kinds,winter sowing for the first time and seedlings in the windows and under lights.Hope the winter sowing goes well been watching many videos.Starting Lisianthus by seed,ordering plugs for next spring.I have learned alot from your channel, been raising vegetable garden and flowers since childhood,not with many seeds though.Looking forward to seedling adventure.Spent a lot of summers traveling, or boating,or trail riding w/my paso fino Julie,so this year I'll be home more.The heat in our area, Springfield, Ohio,humidity can be suffocating, but have alot of trees for some shade.Usually breezy. Growing a lot of milk weed for the Monarch butterflies, could you mention for everyone that can,plant some for them,to keep thier numbers up,been a decline last several years.Every little bit helps.Thank you for all the great information, love watching~Abby in Ohio
I love lisianthus! Never done from seed but maybe next year. I have limited space for seedlings so can never do all I want. I usually do my perennials after the annuals are done. Still enough time to get them planted and acclimated before the cold weather hits and then they are in place and ready to go for spring.
Up here in Eastern Ontario Canada, I've started my geranium seeds (red, deep rose and white/pink) and am RESTRAINING myself from starting too much of anything else, since we're months away from being frost-free! But I have my planting calendar all plotted out, and this week, slow-growing torenia (GREAT shade-tolerant annual) and osteospermum seeds are going in - hooray for dirty hands!!!
Can you show us how to germinate the bell's of Ireland. I have had no luck with them and want to grow them for my mother. Green is her favorite color. Thank you.
@@ramibu239 I was wondering about the kids me over the garden gate. I have never seen them and was wondering what they look like. The hole plant, not just the flower.
Loved the video! Hopefully Cheddar and Russell will be on the job with your Chaise lounge, because nice love mattresses and such......and oh! So delighted you took your mom and dad that beautiful arrangement and vase. How very special! Margie, zone 7.....thank you for all the tips on plants, bushes, etc. in 5-8 4_
I've found that using a pencil tip moistened with a little water, makes picking up and planting tiny seeds much less frustrating
I do something similar in my classroom, to assist chubby little fingers. We use a wet toothpick to pick up tiny seeds, and it works fabulously!
Such a great idea!! Thank you 😊
Brilliant! Thanks!
Or mix your seeds with some sand and then spread the sand out evenly over the compost.
this is funny; I’ve always done the same thing except I use the eraser side.
I giggled to myself when I saw either Cheddar or Russell walking across the pots in the background at the start of the video 😂😂 Naughty Kitty 🐱
3:38 Russell clearly not respecting the “stay off the pots” rule. 😆
I love the seed starting videos, thanks!!
I saw that too and thought, Aw, Naughty kitty. Lol
If you pinch your sweet pea seedlings back to first group of leaves they'll get stronger and give more shoots thus more flowers! I love sweetpeas! The scent is heavenly.
Thanks for the info. I will look for some seeds and give it a try. : )
I my seedlings are about twelve inches long. Is it too late to pinch them off?
Hi, we are a very mini cut flower farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Love your videos and information! A couple of tips that work for us. We use a popsicle sharpened to a point. Wet the tip and the seed stick until placed on the soil. On sweet peas, we put them out in our unheated propagation house to grow before planting. They do real well in the cold temps even into the 20s. Makes a stronger plant.. Just some things that work for us. Happy Growing!
Very interesting love all the great tips
I’m getting ready to start some sweet peas and this was exactly the information I was looking for. I have a cold frame we built with cattle panels and 6 mil plastic and my plan was to plant my sweet peas in a winstrip 72 tray and put them out there with a tray greenhouse dome over it for some additional protection. I figured I could just pot them up if I need to and leave them in there between the kale and lettuce patch.
Wow, Laura! You are up to 688,000 viewers! 💚💙💚 You are loved and do such a wonderful job inspiring all of us. I love watching your videos with my morning coffee. Thank you so much for doing this for us!!💖 I also love how you detail each process with how well you explain things. Love it!!
Loved the little music played when you mentioned the camelot seeds. Nice touch! Haha
Hey Laura - I pinch my sweet peas to make the bushier = stronger & more blooms!
When she says it’s 40 degrees and nice out..... me in Florida *shivers *
Lol 😂 it’s really true though! I grew up in TX & MS & moved as an adult to Montana. Sunny & 35 here feels amazing & warm, especially after really cold days. But I remember 40 in Mississippi was cold!
And me in Alaska thinks oh yeah - shorts and tee shirt weather!!
What a beautiful space/estate you have. I would be sleeping on this lounge chair with the "babies" cuddles up like in a cradle with a veil. Thanks for all of your nice planting tips.
Ok ok ok!! I cannot resist anymore. I am going to get seed starter this morning. Planting begins after lunch.
Pam Napier-Uhl you sound like me...i just see 1 daffodil blooming and now i have spring fever so bad! Plant plant plant
It is so nice to see your stacks of potting soil and stash of frost cloth. Nice you have the space to store the supplies.
"Camelot....(It's only a model!)" Did anyone else catch that Laura? This is why I love you! Thanks for smiles, laughs and inspiration!
I'm starting too many to mention!! 1st year flower farming!!! And market garden.
Getting ready for the season.
It feels like F I R E W O R K S!!
I was once a former plant killer, I will admit it. I've had fun watching and learning with everyone. I really look forward to the upcoming year. New Homestead, starting a business with my best friend and I plan on hitting the ground running!
TFS Laura. I will start with 1.6 acres to fill every space. It's a blank canvas. TFS Laura.
I also pinch my sweet pea seedlings. When growing on trellises that are as short as the beautiful ones you’re using, you may want to consider this, too! Your p,ants will be slightly shorter and much fuller with more flowers.
Tracy yeah I’ve just pinched mine off too as I want a more bushy display
When do you pinch them?
I pinch when there are 4 leaf sets, or when they’re about 6”-8” tall. I start my sweet peas in ‘root trainer’ seed trays (check out Gardener’s Supply for them) quite a few weeks early, specifically so I can pinch them sometimes more than once, i.e. pinch the firs growth, then two weeks or so later, pinch the dual stems that result from the first pinch. You end up with very full, bushy, tall, bloom crazy plants. Pinch no more than twice or you just stunt them.
Tracy thanks for the info! I’ll give it a try! 🙏💗
@gardenanswer I know you are a fan of Monty Don, I can't grow sweet peas here in Georgia but.. he always trims his sweet peas before planting he says it gives you a bushier plant and more flowers.
You work so hard, I admire you.
I had good success with sweet peas last year - I didn’t pinch them back but I did plant them deeply when I took them outside. They bloomed until November.
I’m excited to see progress of sweet peas, my grandma grew them every year. As a child I would smell them, what a delightful memory. Such lovely colors.
I wintered sowed 2 envelopes of foxglove 2 years ago... Last season (2019) I had soooooo many. It's worth the 2 year wait. It's that feeling you get like when the new tulips come up in spring but better 😍😍😍
It's much more satisfying to me to grow everything by seed... Well-- almost everything. I also grow around 100 dahlia tubers each year. If all my tubers store successfully-- hoping to plant 300+
Delphinium can be tricky to winter sow. Though the shorter delphs do very nicely-- easy to start. Snapdragons, Bells of Ireland, Nicotiana, Tall Chinese forget me nots, & my favorite... Larkspur are always a must.
I will start my winter sowing this weekend. I've had success growing seedlings this way, the key is patience, patience, and more patience! When I tried the winter sowing method for the first time nine years ago, I was checking on the milk jugs every day or two. Then I finally gave up and forgot about them, because I figured it wasn't going to work. However, when the soil temp was warm enough, nearly all (a good 95%) of my seeds had sprouted. I'm in zone 5a and I am still planting lots of different flowers and veggie seeds this way. By the first part of March, I will have milk jugs sitting all over my patio.
So glad to hear this as i haven't gotten mine planted yet. I'm in zone 6.
Margie Schaecher-Thank you for sharing your experience with the outdoor seed starting! What flowers have you had success with? I’m more interested in flowers than vegetables gardening! I’m sisters are ALL OVER THE vegetables 🍅 🌽 🌶
Don’t get me wrong-I love fresh produce!!! Just not in my garden!
Lol
Sherry-Knoxville
I have never planted from seeds and to try this year. I have foxgloves, hollyhocks, lupine, sweet elysium, irish moss and cosmos. Have you started any of these from seeds? I dont have grow lights so I thought I might try some winter snow. Any advice would be great!
@@wendypalmer7798, I've never planted seeds of Irish moss or foxgloves, but the rest I've had good luck with. One thing I found helpful was, only use a couple pieces of tape to hold the top closed. This way it's much easier to lift the top of the milk jug on sunny days to keep the heat from building up inside the jugs and cooking your seedlings. Also, air gets drawn in at the loosely fitted sides and vents out the open top of the milk jugs, remember to throw the caps away, rain and snow need to get in. Have fun and good luck! I'm curious, what zone are you in?
@@greenthumbelina7331 I'm in zone 5. Southwest Iowa
My favorite thing about your videos are your HONESTY about what your experiences with all your plantings, and also those sweet comments about your personality. I Love how you will need to move the one person chaise lounge to the barn, although it is lovely, it is Impractical. Ha ha.
I love how you say “ it’s warm today, it’s in the 40’s”. Lol
I can’t wait to see how the sweet peas do. I’m very sentimental about sweet peas and i didn’t have luck growing them last year!
Can't wait to see those Sweet Peas as they grow!! Going to be gorgeous!!
Oh I love sweet peas, they were my mom's favorite flower and my dad always planted a bunch in his garden just for her, and I think this year I will be planting a row of them in memory of my mom, she would love that and then I can think of her when I see and smell them. Thanks so much for this seedling video it was a great one, I just wish that it was warmer here in Idaho so I could do this. I also love Foxglove they are such a beautiful flower.
Hi, I know this video is 4 years old, but just wanted to add that I think the reason why the sweet peas are so leggy is they need a much deeper pot to grow in as they have very long roots that grow a lot before a lot of the top growth happens. If the roots don't have enough room to grow the top growth will be stringy and week. They shouldn't need help standing up if this is addressed. And will be much, much stronger. Happy gardening.💗
I Love sweet peas.
I'm part of the maintenance / landscape / beautification team at church and one of our deacons wants sunflowers. I've also found a dormant forsythia plant for the landscape and hope to add planters with yellow calendula. Hopefully all that sprouts is gold!
Laura: thank you ! While I’m not remotely inspired to plant seeds- you did inspire me to clean up my greenhouse with the neglected over wintered plants. And for that- I’m grateful!
I learned last year that if you pinch your sweet pea seedlings down they will grow a lot fuller and stronger.
These plants are loved. Amazing plant mom.
Patience is the hardest part. I panic every year and then end up with so many plants I have to give them away. 😂
Monty Python Camelot fanfare cracked me up! 😆 Good job, Aaron!
In my cold/frame little shed greenhouse I have some differing lettuces started. I am also rooting some varigated wandering jew from a mother plant to use as spillers in summer pots, as well as sweet peas too! I make use of clear bubble wrap from shipments to wrap around pots and tent over the pots. It works pretty well in addition to some frost cloth. I have a heater for bitter nights. However, I am in zone 7b and I am not quite as cold.
One of your viewers wrote that we need patience, patience and more patience. I am trying jug planting for the first time so I will be practicing as much patience as I can in Zone 5.
Being in Halifax, Nova Scotia our plant out date can be as late as mid June! I am chomping at the bit to get started though. I’ve got my whole system set up and just had to start some herbs that I figure I can continue to grow in pots inside. I so envy you your winter/spring weather but absolutely could not handle the summer heat. You and Aaron rock, by the way.
It’s January and I want to plant flowers everywhere now. This is such a cool hobby. Love it!
Zone 6B
I’ve started just this week: sweet peas, snapdragons and artichokes.
Plus several coleus cuttings, redbud branches forcing!
Aaron is the cats meow of Husbands helping you like he does, can’t wait to see the seeds sprout😍
I have no place to start seeds right now so I live through you and your process. So enjoy it!!! FEBRUARY IS HERE WE WILL SURVIVE TIL SPRING
I am loving this series from seeds. I am thinking maybe I’ll do some that I saved from my garden a few years ago too.
Your flower seed starting videos have inspired me this year to save some money & try and start annual flowers in my own garden. It’s been fun & exciting so far. Even my 9-year-old daughter is helping me & she loves it! Thank you for always sharing 💗
Russell and Cheddar are going to miss their chaise lounge.🐈🐈
I could watch you all day 😭 you always give awesome ideas and advice! ❤️
I was thinking the same thing"Oh for the love of Plants". Awesome Laura.😳
Laura totally off topic but would love to see more cooking videos! I’m so intrigued with American cooking and the different things you cook over there. Keep em comin!!
My friend, who is a trained chef, would not, lol. He cringes anytime he watches someone mishandle a knife or cut something incorrectly. After a minute or two, he has a migraine from rolling his eyes ha ha ha ha ha. It's torture for him. Some things bug me but I don't get mental over it.
If you are interested in gardening and American cooking there’s another TH-cam channel that I follow called “Rainbow Gardens” I especially like that she uses stuff from Aldi’s.
I just love seeing what you guys cook over there as a general meal. Also interesting seeing the different sorts of food you can buy at the shops.
@@kristyplotecki1862 Perhaps but a gardening channel? One where the person running the channel isn't a professional cook/chef? Martha Stewart isn't a professional chef, but she quite frequently would have a professional either on screen or off screen advising her. Some things regarding food preparation she was trained in, like canning. I watched her make Italian sauce from tomatoes and then watched her do the canning process. Laura (to my knowledge) isn't trained in any of that. Is she competent in the kitchen? Looks that way but I'm a little on the "no" side of watching my favorite gardening channel morph into a quasi-cooking channel. Once in a while? Sure. All the time. Mmmm, nah. Just one person's opinion.
So neat to see the sweet pea seedlings... it's like a hint of spring!
Good and timely! Just getting started for the first time with my grow light. I ordered those same trays. They look so perfect. Very excited. I got some sweet pea seeds too. And basically every other seed under the sun with absolutely no place to plant them. 😂🙈
How’s It Growing? Pots pots pots lol🥰
I enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for sharing! I can’t wait for my seeds to arrive! They’re cut flowers and it’s going to be my first time growing them. I ordered China Aster Towers Chamois, Statice QIS pastel mix, Larkspur QIS White, Stock Quartet mix, Baby’s Breath Snowflake, Cress wrinkled crinkled crumpled, Calendula Orange Flash andCarnation Chabaud Orange Sherbet. This is all new to me, I hope I’ll have some success. I’m also a very excited and pretty impatient gardener. My husband and I live close to the Ottawa area and my tomato and jalapeño seedlings are already up. 😁
I’m trying winter sowing with some echinacea, black eyed Susan’s, sweet peas and a few different types of poppy’s. I also have bells of Ireland, zinnias, and oh man I can’t remember my full list!!
In the process of moving.. I’m desperate to start seedlings 🥴 This is so enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing Laura!🌱
The trumpets when she introduces the Camelot Mix. 🤣
Hi Laura, I have started some sweet peas too and some have germinated. I'm waiting for the rest to germinate and then I will put them outside in my little greenhouse. I've heard that this will encourage root growth rather than stem growth and you will have a stronger plant. This is the first time I am doing this so fingers crossed!😁 Love you guys, I look forward to seeing your videos ❤
I should have added that I'm in Canada, zone 6b!
Dang girl! I haven't been on TH-cam for a year since I binged on you for like 3 months!! You sure have made that place gorgeous!!!
So nice to see something sprouting this time of the year.
I feel like I need to plant seeds today! I have artichokes, pelargonium, foxglove, and sweet peas that could go in.
I'm going to buy all kinds of seeds now! Inspired!!
Another tall spikey flower that you may enjoy - especially for your Moon Garden - would be Night Scented Nicotinia (or Woodland Tobacco). Has huge white tubular flowers that release a wonderful scent at night.
Also, are the Foxgloves hard to sew in place in Eastern Oregon? Where I live here on the Western side we have always just been able to sew seeds striaght to areas we wany them to grow. Ones that come up in Spring (in other words, reseed themselves)- if not where we want - are always easy to dig up & transplant. But those white ones are going to look awesome in your Moon/White Garden too!!!
you are a seed planting machine!! i love how you have your system all worked out, with locations of pots and things to move pots and etc etc... it's quite the efficient operation! it dawned on me while watching that my seeds fail probably because i never knew to use seeding soil, lol...oy... i usually don't plant seeds because, frankly, we can get bedding plants pretty inexpensively and i don't have to deal with trying to find a place for seeds (no room inside and a very small property outside)... but i am going to try the bucket method and see how that works for me... i cannot wait to see your cutting garden... that will be one of the many highlights of your garden tour in june, i'm sure - lucky ticketholders!!! i love your idea of a bistro set in the sunroom, but Russell may not like losing his special sunspot!!
Thank you Laura. I have tried 2 years in a row to grow Sea Holly/Eryngium....with NO seedlings coming up! They are spectacular, will keep trying. Good luck with yours.
I think MIGardener has a petri dish method (don't quote me on that) where he starts seeds in little condiment cups, you might want to try that out.
I'm in Central North Carolina. I have a small greenhouse that we heat when it drops below 30 degrees. I've just started hyssop and milkweed along with leeks spinach and Swiss chard. This week I'm starting some basil and delphiniums. Thanks for the information on your videos. It's a huge help.
I’m lazy with my seeds. I throw them outside in my beds in the fall. It’s survival of the fittest.
Tempted to try this myself, it's how it works in nature... how does that work out for you?
@@nicoladoering5030 Works fine for me. I do it with foxgloves..so I always have some coming up. They're my favorites. Plus- they self seed a little. Now I'm in Ga where the winters are mild.Also- I must add- my garden is a cottage garden so I don't have as much ordered plantings as the fabulous Laura.
Works great for hollyhocks, too.
What happens when they germinate really close to eachother
@@Dcc333 They grow up to be twins
It's so exciting watching your videos....from all that snow in your garden...its now green leaves....SPRING'S in the air...
Thanks so much for sharing...💖💝
Hi Laura! I absolutely love your videos and you inspire me to try new and creative ideas in my terrace garden! I love the amount of meticulous planning you put into making these videos and editing in old videos from your archives according to relevance. You’re brilliant and you’re truly inspiring a lot of people into getting their hands dirty. More power time you! And so much love from India!
This is therapy for me since all the schools are closed for blowing drifting snow today. Still I started some arugala and lettuce... Zone 3-4 is the best though- just saying!
Ruffled pansies! I really love sweet peas and foxgloves, I can't wait to see how they turn out!
I started the jug method around the same time as you did. I have some sweet alyssum sprouting up, Very exciting. I’m in zone 8b....i think. Near Salem OR. Love all your videos, you are my go too for good info and motivation. 💚💚
It’s like you tuck your seed in every night💗
Lol the Camelot music.
Absolutely LOVE every video you share! Gardening and flowers and birds are my true love! Your whole landscape is gorgeous!
We still have another month at least before we start seeds up here. I watch your video's and am all excited to start seeds. Then i remember that i'm in a zone 2. Nope. I'll enjoy the process through you. Thank you.
Thanks for showing your seed starting process. I happy to see what other people do, and what I should expect. In the past I’ve attempted to start seeds but I’ve not had a lot of success. I’m trying again this year because I have lots of pots to fill and would like to have a few pots started from seeds. I’m headed to my garden center to see what I can find.
I just bought sweet pea seeds yesterday and I’m going to start them tomorrow.
Did you say that you soaked the seeds prior to sowing?
I’ve started winter sowing several seeds! Sweet William, Delphinium, Lupine, Carnation, Pansy, Snap Dragon, Alyssum (which has already sprouted), Impatiens and Zinnias! So excited for the plants 🌱!!
I am itching to start my zinnia here in Georgia, but I know it is too early 😬. Can’t wait to watch you create a beautiful cut garden in the vegetable garden!
Laura - Thanks for wonderful videos. I learn so much from watching them. I have started Zinnias, Marigolds and Sunflowers. I purchased 2 raise bed kits and will install them tomorrow. I had a load of garden soil delivered today. I live in Southeast Texas in zone 9.
I should start planting my seeds.. thank you for reminding us that this is the time for planting seeds
Hi Laura and Aaron! This was another fun video to watch. Thank you for sharing!
I like and love what you do God bless you
Pinch your sweet peas back to the first set of leaves, they will be much bushier and you’ll get three times as many flowers, I know it’s tempting to try and let them grow up the trellis quickly but it is only the beginning of February, there is still lots of time
Great video Laura. Starting some Mixed Lettuce etc Radish. Also wild flower mixture, asters, Just a start in our Greenhouse
You should pinch the tip of sweet peas to make them side shoot. You should get one plant with 3 shoots on each. Leggy is not good. Also sweet peas don't need heat, as you have seen they just grow too fast. Here in England we sew sweet peas in January and as soon as you get r orc5 leaves you pinch tge tip out and you keep them in a cold frame till you are ready to plant out. You can also direct sew about April /May straight in tge soil. They are really hardy
I’ve never used seedling soil. Have to try that this year. I’m so excited to start my seeds
Love your videos, so packed full of useful info and no fat, all protein talk, if you get my drift. But what I want to compliment you and your husband on is that you two have got the video making down pat. That is a skill in itself. The audio is exceptionally good, and I just stopped at 15:11 to write you because of the fabulous speeded-up soft sounds to go with your fast-forward transplanting of sweet peas. That is some great editing. Also it was funny and heartwarming when he followed you on the long trek from greenhouse to "upstairs" where you germinate seeds under a light. I liked that; it is story telling, it is quotidian non-fiction. so KUDOS on the video-making.
Pansies sprouted. Love following your seed germination videos!
I always fill the self watering tray and moisten the mat right away. Then you don't have to worry about the seeds drying out.
Sweet peas are so easy to start. I have some that look like yours, but I have no place to put them! Can't wait to see how yours do.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful day.
Hey laura, absolutely love you!! Just letting you know I am growing pumpkins, mangoes, strawberries, tomatoes, shallots and potatoes. All of this has been inspired by you!
Starting,foxglove 1st year bloomers,sweet peas,zinnias,hollyhock,cosmos,day lilies,2 kinds,winter sowing for the first time and seedlings in the windows and under lights.Hope the winter sowing goes well been watching many videos.Starting Lisianthus by seed,ordering plugs for next spring.I have learned alot from your channel, been raising vegetable garden and flowers since childhood,not with many seeds though.Looking forward to seedling adventure.Spent a lot of summers traveling, or boating,or trail riding w/my paso fino Julie,so this year I'll be home more.The heat in our area, Springfield, Ohio,humidity can be suffocating, but have alot of trees for some shade.Usually breezy. Growing a lot of milk weed for the Monarch butterflies, could you mention for everyone that can,plant some for them,to keep thier numbers up,been a decline last several years.Every little bit helps.Thank you for all the great information, love watching~Abby in Ohio
I love lisianthus! Never done from seed but maybe next year. I have limited space for seedlings so can never do all I want. I usually do my perennials after the annuals are done. Still enough time to get them planted and acclimated before the cold weather hits and then they are in place and ready to go for spring.
Wonderful video!!! Extremely informative! Thank you!
Up here in Eastern Ontario Canada, I've started my geranium seeds (red, deep rose and white/pink) and am RESTRAINING myself from starting too much of anything else, since we're months away from being frost-free! But I have my planting calendar all plotted out, and this week, slow-growing torenia (GREAT shade-tolerant annual) and osteospermum seeds are going in - hooray for dirty hands!!!
I have winter sowed purple milkweed, parsley, 3 types of Echinacea, balloon plant milkweed, joe pye weed, pansies, goldenrod, lobelia, cherry brandy rudbeckia, swamp milkweed, tropical milkweed, rue, and snapdragons.
Can you show us how to germinate the bell's of Ireland. I have had no luck with them and want to grow them for my mother. Green is her favorite color. Thank you.
Me too! Also cup-n-saucer vine & kiss me over the garden gate. All 3 I've had issues w/ getting to germinate!😕
@@ramibu239 I was wondering about the kids me over the garden gate. I have never seen them and was wondering what they look like. The hole plant, not just the flower.
@@heatherbright7214 www.selectseeds.com/all-items/kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate_seeds.aspx
Heather Smith I couldn’t get them to germinate either so gave them to a friend with a heating pad...success!
LOVED the Camelot music reference to Holy Grail!
I think you can pinch back the sweet peas to get a bushier (less leggy growth). Maybe a side by side trial? 😁🤞
It’s summer here(Australia) our sunflowers are looking lovely! I grew them from seed for the first time.
I’m starting celery, peppers, parsley, rosemary, purple coneflowers, nasturtiums and Shasta daisies.
Loved the video! Hopefully Cheddar and Russell will be on the job with your Chaise lounge, because nice love mattresses and such......and oh! So delighted you took your mom and dad that beautiful arrangement and vase. How very special! Margie, zone 7.....thank you for all the tips on plants, bushes, etc. in 5-8 4_