I rescued some volunteer pepper plants last fall, and now they are basking in my mini greenhouse! They will be huge by late spring! 😅 Thanks for the video!❤😊
Jeff,you help to cope with winter blahs. And your 2 minute quickies are an added PLUS. I’ve noticed other videos offering 2minute videos. They must be watching too. They’re all playing ‘follow the leader’. Keep leading, with my blessing!
Zone 5b here, so my last estimated frost date is May 6th for a total of 161 growing days in 2024. This year I am going to try to start my tomatoes and peppers indoors 6 weeks ahead of this frost date. That gives me 4 weeks growing plus the 2 weeks hardening off period. I start my cooler crops outdoors once the overnight temperatures stay consistently above 5C. Knock wood (yes, this gardener has superstitions LOL) this has worked for me regardless of calendar dates for my cooler crops like lettuces, spinaches, and peas. And right now I am as green as my would=be peas that you get to start so soon. 😉
Today I sowed leeks and 12 different tomato varieties. Tomorrow I will sow bell peppers, chili, eggplants, artichokes, celery, physalis and some other early stuff I planned to sow in January, but better late than never 😇@@TheRipeTomatoFarms
I have learned so much from your channel! Question - have you ever thought about using the Winter Sowing method? I would be interested in knowing your opinion about it. It seems perfect for those of us who don't have a space for starting seeds inside.
Wow that's crazy! I live in Florida, in between 8B and 9A and my last frost date is March 5th only 5 days before yours. Put my peas in the ground yesterday and started some early snowball cauliflower, I have Peppers that are overwintering and new pepper seedlings about 2 in up now inside the house. Will be starting tomato seeds tonight. I think it's always time to be gardening
Duuuude….Yessss! 💯😍👏This is exactly how it should be thought of Jeffe, 💓 I am new at thinking this way with gardening, Ive always consistently watched the weather, but only recently in the last couple months have I incorporated it into my gardening, I feel like it’s clicking, like, becoming second nature, I got excited that I could drop seeds a bit earlier this year because we had warm weather for over a week with our last frost date already past. I am really trying to get this garden thang 🥦🥬🧅🥔💓💪thanks again Jeffe, really appreciate your encouragement and guidance😘💯
Totally right! Use the dates as a guideline....but watch the weather and the forecasts and where its trending to set your own rules and timelines! Smart! 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms 🤦♀️I watch 3 weather dudes every day here on the yt…haha love it, a total nerd 🤓🥸😆 it really helps! thanks so much again -Nina 🪴💋
22 Feb. I just checked 2 of my raised beds with hoops holding 36 Sweet Pepper plants that I had covered in the fall with extra soil and extra cloth covers over each plant hoping for them to survive the weather here in Creston, BC. Well, all the soil in all of my 10 raised beds is now soft down 6 inches and 30 of those perennial Sweet Pepper plant stems are still green. Hoping they will continue to regrow and produce more fruit this summer.🫑🫑🫑🫑🍅🥬🥕🥒🌶️🫑🍒 cheers, Go Lions…
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Jeff, I will keep you uptodate in May because this is a first for me in this climate zone, but have many backup pots already growing.🫑🫑
Here in Quebec, I usually start in April...I am in zone 3B.. this year, I want to grow a variety of Italian chicories..or escaroles...one is pink..! Also some of my small harvested red potatoes have begun to sprout, so I will put in an empty egg container..then in a brown paper bag...can't wait for spring..
Hi Jeff, I started leeks indoors a couple weeks ago. I already have tubs of endive, kale and beet in the greenhouse. It's wonderful to stretch things to a 12 month year harvest! ~ Sandra
Keeping good notes is critical for me, climate change and a specific micro-climate has made it even more challenging in my area. One year I started very early to ensure I had robust plants and ended up with tomato "seedlings" over a meter tall and already producing fruit before last frost. My greenhouse was overflowing and I (and the plants) couldn't wait to get things into the ground.
The Farmer's Almanac is off on its frost dates for Southwest BC by a month! Nooooooo!!! That means my super nerdy planting spreadsheet is completely wrong, and I was planning on a full round of cool weather greens before I need the space for summer 🤦♀Guess this is what I get for not crosschecking online references....Welp, at least gapping out on TH-cam videos over my morning coffee wasn't a complete waste of time. Cheers! ☕
Yeah, I think everyone is going to guess this year wrong. Double digit temps all this week and my fall bulbs are all sprouting......likely in for a rude awakening!
What a welcome video Jeff! I have the winter blues, snow and ice, cold and just more cold, but I have started perennial flowers in the greenhouse and although the seed packets say "7-21 days 'til germination" my Verbascum was sprouting in 3, as well as Shasta Daisy and Sweet William. I'm trying to hold off on tomatoes just yet, but it's so tempting. Thank you for the enthusiasm, the hope and promise of Spring!! Happy 2024
LOL Jeff! Great to hear your cheerful voice, but I'm chuckeling down here in South Florida's zone 10! My indeterminate tomato plants just started giving me ripe ones! Good Gardening Luck this year everyone! 🌱🌿🌱
"weather permits" Our last frost in Maine comes as late as mid-June. We do not have any kind of moderate or average temps here. It can be 25 on a July evening. I live on a ridge above a river and it's frosts constantly in the fall and spring. That being said, Almost all over your videos have given us so much success, so long as we 'temper' them we our location. 💯❤ JEFF !
My last frost date is May. 😭 I'm going to start up my seed starting station today and get my soil ready for onion seeds. Aside from those, most have to wait until middle of next month at least. It'll be here before I know it, though.
I still have to wait a week or two. Till that time I can make a cover for my bed to keep the amounts of rain out. Pffff. Worry about my garlic, they are inside and hanging now. Not too dry soil, not that cold. Hope they make it though.
Hi again Jeff, i think this video answers my questions on another video you just posted today. Sorry about that. I am planning on mixing up my own seedlings mix this year. I part potting mix (promix), 1 part compost casting worms and 1/2 part vermiculite. Does this sound like a mix? Thank you for your advice.
Yeah, that sounds great. Light, fluffy, airy, and drains well.....that's the goal. I might do part perlite and vermiculite, but other than that, sounds great!
QUESTION Jeff what Strawberry plant variety would you recommend for Texas US? A friend in Hawaii was growing big beautiful Carolina Reapers but he said it got too Hot for them. 😢 I pray you can help.❤😊
Hey Melinda, Reapers are a pepper plant....but should have no trouble with either Texas or Hawaii. Strawberries are a different game because they are naturally a cold-climate crop. 'Camarosa' is likely the one variety that handles the heat the best.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms OH ok. I may have miss understood him. I only talk to him on TH-cam. He grows 40 varieties of peppers he said and strawberries and sells them in front of his house. Thank you so much Jeff. ❤️😊 I pray my husband is blessed this year bc prices are so high. GOD bless you Jeff and your family in JESUS NAME AMEN ❤️🙏😊
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I love that my favourite gardening channel is on the Island!
And I thank you for all the support! 🙂
What Island? just curious... gardening is very geographically specific. ☺
Vancouver Island.
I rescued some volunteer pepper plants last fall, and now they are basking in my mini greenhouse! They will be huge by late spring! 😅
Thanks for the video!❤😊
That's an epic head start Susan! 🙂
Happy groundhogs day!!! Hopefully an early spring as predicted this year!!! 😊
I think it will be Brandy! 🙂
I live PA no matter what 6 more weeks. He's a liar 😂
@@kittiew260 😂😂😂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I hope so. Over the snow and ice. 😆
Jeff,you help to cope with winter blahs. And your 2 minute quickies are an added PLUS. I’ve noticed other videos offering 2minute videos. They must be watching too. They’re all playing ‘follow the leader’. Keep leading, with my blessing!
Thanks so much Jim! Have a great weekend buddy, spring is almost here!
Zone 5b here, so my last estimated frost date is May 6th for a total of 161 growing days in 2024. This year I am going to try to start my tomatoes and peppers indoors 6 weeks ahead of this frost date. That gives me 4 weeks growing plus the 2 weeks hardening off period. I start my cooler crops outdoors once the overnight temperatures stay consistently above 5C. Knock wood (yes, this gardener has superstitions LOL) this has worked for me regardless of calendar dates for my cooler crops like lettuces, spinaches, and peas. And right now I am as green as my would=be peas that you get to start so soon. 😉
That sounds like an excellent plan Sandy!
I started today
Nice! What are you planting?
Today I sowed leeks and 12 different tomato varieties.
Tomorrow I will sow bell peppers, chili, eggplants, artichokes, celery, physalis and some other early stuff I planned to sow in January, but better late than never 😇@@TheRipeTomatoFarms
@@olefosshaug5565Epic! You'll be swimmin' in veggies this year!
Two things I'm working on this year....being patient when planting, and then thinning!😂
Smart Sonya! 🙂
I have learned so much from your channel! Question - have you ever thought about using the Winter Sowing method? I would be interested in knowing your opinion about it. It seems perfect for those of us who don't have a space for starting seeds inside.
Another great video Jeff. Keep up the great information for newer gardener's.
Thanks Kittie, appreciate the support! 🙂
Wow that's crazy! I live in Florida, in between 8B and 9A and my last frost date is March 5th only 5 days before yours. Put my peas in the ground yesterday and started some early snowball cauliflower, I have Peppers that are overwintering and new pepper seedlings about 2 in up now inside the house. Will be starting tomato seeds tonight. I think it's always time to be gardening
Even crazier Deb is that I didn't know anywhere in Florida HAD a frost date to begin with! LOL
Duuuude….Yessss! 💯😍👏This is exactly how it should be thought of Jeffe, 💓 I am new at thinking this way with gardening, Ive always consistently watched the weather, but only recently in the last couple months have I incorporated it into my gardening, I feel like it’s clicking, like, becoming second nature, I got excited that I could drop seeds a bit earlier this year because we had warm weather for over a week with our last frost date already past. I am really trying to get this garden thang 🥦🥬🧅🥔💓💪thanks again Jeffe, really appreciate your encouragement and guidance😘💯
Totally right! Use the dates as a guideline....but watch the weather and the forecasts and where its trending to set your own rules and timelines! Smart! 🙂
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms 🤦♀️I watch 3 weather dudes every day here on the yt…haha love it, a total nerd 🤓🥸😆 it really helps! thanks so much again -Nina 🪴💋
Pulling the last sweet potatoes today. Revamping the bed and direct sowing today with spinach, kale and radishes.
Epic! What area are you growing in?
22 Feb. I just checked 2 of my raised beds with hoops holding 36 Sweet Pepper plants that I had covered in the fall with extra soil and extra cloth covers over each plant hoping for them to survive the weather here in Creston, BC. Well, all the soil in all of my 10 raised beds is now soft down 6 inches and 30 of those perennial Sweet Pepper plant stems are still green. Hoping they will continue to regrow and produce more fruit this summer.🫑🫑🫑🫑🍅🥬🥕🥒🌶️🫑🍒 cheers, Go Lions…
Beauty! I wonder how their production is going to increase for their 2nd season!??
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms Jeff, I will keep you uptodate in May because this is a first for me in this climate zone, but have many backup pots already growing.🫑🫑
Love your videos especially when there still snow here in Manitoba
Thanks! It keeps me going in the depths of winter as well! :-)
Here in Quebec, I usually start in April...I am in zone 3B.. this year, I want to grow a variety of Italian chicories..or escaroles...one is pink..! Also some of my small harvested red potatoes have begun to sprout, so I will put in an empty egg container..then in a brown paper bag...can't wait for spring..
Right on Zan....short growing season, making the most of it!
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms I will...😉
I'm already starting onions late
Thanks now has been become the second best time.
Hi Jeff, I started leeks indoors a couple weeks ago. I already have tubs of endive, kale and beet in the greenhouse. It's wonderful to stretch things to a 12 month year harvest!
~ Sandra
Dang, you're garden is going to be hoppin' this year!
Keeping good notes is critical for me, climate change and a specific micro-climate has made it even more challenging in my area. One year I started very early to ensure I had robust plants and ended up with tomato "seedlings" over a meter tall and already producing fruit before last frost. My greenhouse was overflowing and I (and the plants) couldn't wait to get things into the ground.
Smart Joe, love the attention to detail!! :-)
Spot on also I plant above 50s soil temperatures for tomatoes and sunflowers and 60s soil temperatures
Thanks Jeff
I'm near Detroit and was shocked to find out that your last frost is 2 months earlier than ours.
Yeah, real mediterranean climate here Jeff. The Pacific really moderates both the summer and winter extremes...
Thank you Jeff, it was good to visit you and your garden again
New viewer here, just wanted to say you have great energy 🌱🪴
Thanks Carol, appreciate it! 🙂
I started a package (approximately 200 seeds) of onions today! 02-feb-2024
Nice! What variety?
I started January 1st
I have to wait until Mother's day or Memorial day to transplant outside here in NJ.
Your video was great awesome original! I love this channel!!!
Wonderful video! Thanks
The Farmer's Almanac is off on its frost dates for Southwest BC by a month! Nooooooo!!! That means my super nerdy planting spreadsheet is completely wrong, and I was planning on a full round of cool weather greens before I need the space for summer 🤦♀Guess this is what I get for not crosschecking online references....Welp, at least gapping out on TH-cam videos over my morning coffee wasn't a complete waste of time. Cheers! ☕
Yeah, I think everyone is going to guess this year wrong. Double digit temps all this week and my fall bulbs are all sprouting......likely in for a rude awakening!
What a welcome video Jeff! I have the winter blues, snow and ice, cold and just more cold, but I have started perennial flowers in the greenhouse and although the seed packets say "7-21 days 'til germination" my Verbascum was sprouting in 3, as well as Shasta Daisy and Sweet William. I'm trying to hold off on tomatoes just yet, but it's so tempting. Thank you for the enthusiasm, the hope and promise of Spring!! Happy 2024
LOL Jeff! Great to hear your cheerful voice, but I'm chuckeling down here in South Florida's zone 10! My indeterminate tomato plants just started giving me ripe ones! Good Gardening Luck this year everyone! 🌱🌿🌱
You are by far the best videos for gardening, short sweet to the point. The information is spot on. Thank you.
"weather permits" Our last frost in Maine comes as late as mid-June. We do not have any kind of moderate or average temps here. It can be 25 on a July evening. I live on a ridge above a river and it's frosts constantly in the fall and spring. That being said, Almost all over your videos have given us so much success, so long as we 'temper' them we our location. 💯❤ JEFF !
My last frost date is May. 😭 I'm going to start up my seed starting station today and get my soil ready for onion seeds. Aside from those, most have to wait until middle of next month at least.
It'll be here before I know it, though.
I am gardening all year around( I live in zone 11b)
Thanks Jeff. I always appreciate your great gardening advice.
I still have to wait a week or two. Till that time I can make a cover for my bed to keep the amounts of rain out. Pffff.
Worry about my garlic, they are inside and hanging now. Not too dry soil, not that cold. Hope they make it though.
What zone are you growing in? Is it hardneck or softneck garlic?
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms they are softnecks (from the supermarket). Our climate zone is Cfb.
Hiya. Yes, I’m ready to get going. Do you know which USDA zone you are most comparable with? Keep up the great content 🎉
Yes!
2:43 and the $$$ don’t forget about how sky high these transplant prices have gotten
Soooooooo true!
👍👍🇺🇸 Eugene, Oregon
Very close to my hood!
Hi again Jeff, i think this video answers my questions on another video you just posted today. Sorry about that. I am planning on mixing up my own seedlings mix this year. I part potting mix (promix), 1 part compost casting worms and 1/2 part vermiculite. Does this sound like a mix? Thank you for your advice.
Yeah, that sounds great. Light, fluffy, airy, and drains well.....that's the goal. I might do part perlite and vermiculite, but other than that, sounds great!
QUESTION Jeff what Strawberry plant variety would you recommend for Texas US? A friend in Hawaii was growing big beautiful Carolina Reapers but he said it got too Hot for them. 😢 I pray you can help.❤😊
Hey Melinda, Reapers are a pepper plant....but should have no trouble with either Texas or Hawaii. Strawberries are a different game because they are naturally a cold-climate crop. 'Camarosa' is likely the one variety that handles the heat the best.
@@TheRipeTomatoFarms OH ok. I may have miss understood him. I only talk to him on TH-cam. He grows 40 varieties of peppers he said and strawberries and sells them in front of his house. Thank you so much Jeff. ❤️😊 I pray my husband is blessed this year bc prices are so high. GOD bless you Jeff and your family in JESUS NAME AMEN ❤️🙏😊
@@melindaroth5796So true Melinda....the prices are absolutely unreal. Its crazy.
My last frostdate is with 90 % certainty...may 18th. 50 % april 30th. Sooo...have a little time left. But interesting watching.
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Did you say your last frost is March 10?? I call b.s.
do you know where he lives?
@@cut-- he said BC Canada
@@domading2759 Thanks I missed that. 😘