Don't Miss Spring: Do These April Garden Tasks Now!
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- Spring has sprung! With so much to do in the garden at this time of year, where do we even start? Relax. Ben has it covered. Just follow along with his monthly jobs lists safe in the knowledge that your garden is in safe hands. Phew.
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this guy belongs on television. absolutely dynamic, love him
Thanks so much! :-)
A tip for the greenhouse: I live quite high up in the hills of northern Portugal. The nights and mornings are very chilly - also in the greenhouse - but as soon as the sun comes out inside the greenhouse it gets above 30 degrees very quickly. I placed a few large containers full of water that absorb the heat during the day and kind of temper the temperature inside, while at night they give off the heat that was collected during the day. I do ventilate on sunny days.
Ha! I've been doing that by accident. I usually fill up my watering can after I've finished watering everything in the greenhouse the leaving it for next time.
Didn't even think it would benefit the greenhouse that way! Thanks for the tip.
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I live in Tamworth, so it’s a fairly temperate climate, moisture retention and humidity is certainly something to consider whilst growing, every garden has it’s endemic environment, so it’s always interesting for other gardeners 👍❤️
Could cause mould though
Thank you!
I always know what garden tasks I'm doing too early, due to my unbridled enthusiasm for spring, when I watch this channel
I hear ya. Every year I start to early. 😂
Same 😭😭
Your vids are so peaceful to watch :)
I had to watch the potato part again as I was distracted by that gorgeous dog! 🐶 Just adorable! 🐾
Haha, thanks so much. She's a great garden companion. :-)
@@GrowVeg raised beds or containers are magnificent in areas where the soil is essentially toxic !!
Hi how are so iam from London iam very very crazy for gardening good myself Hoby really like ur gardening in London not very good weather in the moment u are very lucky man u have big and warm weather wonderful 😊 ❤️ thanks by
I found some sprouting potatoes in the cupboard. I’ll plant them over the week!!
We are installing permanent raised beds. I will have more planting space, and will start more flowers and perennial veggies than was possible before:)
Best tip I ever learned for water butts is making sure you buy watering cans of a size you can dunk straight into the water via the top hatch. Saves SO much time and fiddling with flimsy plastic taps. I also like to add a weekly probiotic tablet to my water butt - not essential but beneficial bacteria helps to keep the slime and any other nasties under control during hotter spells.
What a great suggestion, thanks so much for sharing this. :-)
I’ve never heard of a probiotic for water catchment system! I need to find out more about this 👍🏻
Are the ward water butts any good do you know? 💚
@@joannc147 Try Envii if you’re based in the UK - I use those ones and they’re good
So excited to get out into the garden today. Thanks for the inspiration!
Still have a foot of snow on ground but its melting!
Great, relaxing video as always. :) Im planting my first ever garden this month. Thank you for the inspiration!
Have fun!
That's really superb to hear - I hope you enjoy the whole process. Happy gardening! :-)
Thanks! It's been a blast so far!
Growing my 1st large scale raised bed veggie garden this year, got myself the garden planner a few weeks go to support me. Living the south of Ireland does not help to start of early, some seedling batches were germination too fast. Our climate needs a good bit of patience. Thanks for the content as always
Hope you enjoy the Garden Planner and have a fantastically abundant season. Happy gardening! :-)
It definitely does require patience.
I'm in the west and I don't start sowing under cover until mid-March. I wait until mid to late April to sow outdoors. No point doing anything beforehand.
Howdy, Ben and adorable Rosie!👋 She's a great supervisor.😄
I love your videos, Ben. I'm still learning so much!👍
It's time for us to direct sow or transplant melons, squash, cucumber, and other heat loving plants.
My lemon tree is blooming! We are getting loads of strawberries! Our potato plants have been growing since Valentine's Day...they look very happy. Zinnia, cosmos, sunflower, marigold, and other flowering plants have been out or growing voluntarily for a few weeks.
Keep the fun and knowledge coming!💕
Your garden sounds beautiful.😊
@twpsy634 I'm in Central Texas...come June we will be hitting 100 and over until September. Most folks here take a break from gardening in the summer and do a fall garden. We are already seeing 80s here and there.🙂
All coming along beautifully by the sounds of it. :-)
I always plant my flat seeds on there side 👍 I like to wait till may to plant out. Still have fleece at the ready for. 😅
I started growing citrus here in upstate NY last year . It's a learning experience. Then I got asked to help water two private greenhouses filled with every kind of citrus , wow ! These trees are huge and I get to pick all I want .
Wow - what a treat! :-)
I’ve just got a lemon tree - please give me your tips as I lost a small fruit and a few leaves already 😢
i love your enthusiasm and knowledge. thanks for these videos, i hope they make you as happy as it does me and the rest of your viewers :)
Thanks so much. It's a fantastic time of year - you can't help but feel optimistic and excited!
Awesome. Wife and I spent 2 months earlier this year on a cruise so I could not grow from seed this year. I went out to a local popular nursery and bought all my plants and they are all out in my beds now. Thanks for the great videos Ben, and shots of your cute dog.
Great job to have it all planted out already. Happy gardening! :-)
I can't get hubby to use our rain barrel. But it's a great idea!!! I might try to grow the fava beans in a container
Chilies and Tom's are indoors at the moment, hoping to get them outside soon. Peas and beans, I'm going to plant them directly, spuds and spinach are outside and growing well. Great video, Ben.
I recently transplanted comfrey into my herb garden, and they are thriving. I have seed sprouts for catnip, yarrow, chicory, peppermint, and oregano. I just finished transplanting about 100 White Creole bulbing onions, and another 100 Red Beard bunching onions into my raised beds. I gave up on my Bing Cherry tree and dug it up. There was no new root growth. As I feared, the tree was DOA. It has been replaced with a Dwarf North Star Cherry Tree. It is s more mature tree, and already fruiting. The radish, kohlrabi, carrot sprouts, snow peas, shelling peas, chard, lettuce, mustard, garlic, and potatoes are all doing great. There is potential frost in the forecast for April 4th. If the weather holds, I'll be able to plant my transplants on the 5th, or 6th. I've been soaking a straw pile preparing it for Wine Cap Mushroom spore. As soon as there is no danger of frost, probably Tuesday, I spread the mushroom spore throughout my wheat pile. Tuesday will be an ideal day with rain in the forecast.
So much going on there Jay - you're a busy gardener! :-)
You are busy busy .
Thanks for the motivation. I'm about to sow zinnias and sunflowers.
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻🐰Happy easter!! 🐰
And to you! :-)
I planted some potatoes today too. I put a few rows of beets, turnip And raddish too. Basement starting tomatoes and peppers also. They cant go out here until the very end of May. Your fluffy supervisor is adorable.😊
Your videos are so useful for new gardeners. I’ve learnt sooo much watching you at work.
Nice one Ben .Your enthusiasm is very infectious. Best wishes to you and Rosie.
All I have done so far is seed started inside, and top dressed my beds with compost. Next up: cool crop planting. Canada here: we had an 'el nino' winter, so things are absolutely wild and ahead of schedule! Already seeing buds/blooms on some plants.
Got my raised beds….got my poodle….I’m ready to GARDEN, 🤣 I do get a bit of greenhouse envy when I watch your videos (sigh). My spring veggies and salad greens are doing very well. I planted one bed from seed and one with transplants (I’m not a gardening snob!). Now starting indoor flower seedlings which include some flowers I don’t often find for sale. Plant prices are goofy high so I’m determined to raise some by seed. I’m in Zone 8 North Carolina and our “avg last frost” is 4 days away. I’m horrified to admit my potatoes are chitted tho not yet planted….hope to take care of that today. Gardening isn’t difficult - it’s the scheduling and organization that mess me up every time. 🤷🏻♀ Thanks for another great video and I’m going to revisit that potato video while I drink some tea. ❤
Hope you manage to get those potatoes in. Happy gardening! :-)
Thanks for another wonderful video. I've managed to rip up the old decking and make 2 veggie patches in its place. 2 days of back breaking work (moved a lot of concrete blocks) but it's already an absolute joy in my cottage garden
What a fantastic addition to the garden - great job! :-)
Holy moly! It's already mid-April, the sun is blazing, and I have a hundred and one tasks to do... And I only have a balcony!
Time to get gardening I'd say! :-)
8 weeks out from last frost so brassicas, onions and a couple perennials started indoors. New greenhouse this year but need the night freezes to ease before I leave much in it.
Been planting peas this week, just ordered some more snap peas as the packet has vanished!!
And have been weeding, along with still harvesting purple sprouting broccoli. Been loving it with dinners.
I love sugar snap peas 🫛 didn’t grow enough last year, won’t make that mistake this time!!
@@charlotterydz6343
Have planted 15 plants.
18 petit poi’s and 18 metor pea plants so hopefully enough for me and my neighbour.
Lol
Trying growing them up the side of the house that has trellis on it. Last year I grew them in window boxes but on the floor and wasn’t great, but think it was my supports that were crap lol so will try somewhere different and see how they go.
@@cherylhowker1792 wow that’s a lot! I was thinking I might do 10 this year 💚
@@charlotterydz6343 the thing is my garden is the only one that we grow food in, so mum and dad and brother get some if they want em and my Nan.
I’m disabled 33 year old so I’m at home all the time 🤔 meaning with my support workers we can tend the veg patch, have set it up a little bit like a allotment…. Sort of thing. I like what we have done in 3 years. Not grown much as such but keep trying lol.
I've been subscribed for a while now to your channel and love it.i have learned so much from you have started my own flowers for pest control aphids are a big problem.watching here in a very wet ireland keep up the great content cheers bud 😊😊
Thanks so much for your support. It will dry out... eventually!
We're getting ready to harden off some cool weather crops US Zone 7. Thank you!
Great tips fella, I like it. 👍👍👍
Seems like slugs are a big problem in UK. Dont see any in Northern USA, but the squirrels and rabbits are my nemisis!
Wow . How far north are u? We have them in pittsburgh pa but it’s not super cold here
Upstate NY here - slug heaven.
Leeds, Yorkshire here...slugs are the bane of my existence
Vancouver BC Canada our slugs are terrors. In the woods, they are literally 6 inches long. The garden variety aren't that big luckily. We get a lot of rain, and I wonder if that's a factor.
Ik woon in Nederland en we hebben naast bijna alleen maar regen (al 8 maanden) heel veel slakken
De grond zit helemaal vol dus ik gebruik nu slakken korrels
Great Video!!! Spring is here, so exciting to try to improve skills learnt from previous years.
❤ Thank You so Much!!🌱
I'm almost Moved to the new house now,,,
However I have just found out that I am Not Allowed to Remove the Patios for a full Year!!😮
Looks like I'm going to be growing in Containers!!
At least I have the front and back gardens in which to do this!!🌱💚
I'm so excited and happy to have a garden again!!🌱🍾🥂🌱👍
@Ni-dk7ni Thank you very much for your kind suggestion I am definitely going to look into this!! ☺️
Hope the house move has gone well and your new garden thrives. :-)
Thank you for the comfrey cultivar. That sold me; I’m now purchasing comfrey. And Rosie is adorable!
Brilliant. I’ll start my zinnia’s this week. And I have to hurry oiling the planks for my potato bed and putting it up. Excited :)
Your soil is amazing👌
Thank you! :-)
I'm in the American Pacific Northwest, so my Spring is a few weeks behind yours. I just got my first round of radish and turnip seedlings in the beds outside last night, and my onions will go out this evening. This is a really wonderful time of year.
Great job - spring has sprung for you too it seems. :-)
Hi Ben, great video update, with plenty of useful advice, too. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊
Thank you, Ben, for the great info and infectious enthusiasm!
Thank you for all of the information. Everytime I learn something new! Happy Easter filled with love and happiness ✨️
Digging the feel good music
Always helpful…..thanks Ben 🙏
This is exciting, I'm going to plant cosmos and zinnias, Thanks
Thanks for the heads-up for April!
Brilliant video, thank you for the information!
Thank you for making this video 🥰 I love your account ❤
I just finished creating a border about 38x117" so much hard work removing all the clay, tearing it apart and mixing it with manure topsoil and sand. I removed about x24 25-30kg bags each of gravel and clay! there was so much!! because I no longer wanted slate in that area, there was several layers of older slate and gravel underneath it was ridiculous. Now to figure out what to plant, something that likes the sun and grit, alpines for sure ;)
Well done on all that hard work!
My fruit trees are budding & my seed potatoes are all planted in their 10 gallon buckets. Your vids have taught me a lot !!
Always lovely to hear from you, gardening is a given task and it's always appreciated 👍
I live in very rural mid-west Wales in the lee of a 300ft hill which means we lose sunshine even on midsummer's day at about 1830hrs. It also means our soil does not warm up until very late in the season, & cools down very early. 8t 8s very humid, so we have additional problems. Additionally, we live 8n a frost pocket!!!
Those sound like challenging conditions. Hopefully it doesn't dry out so quickly in summer though. :-)
I found your site last year. Love your videos which are very informative and good timely reminders of tasks to be done. Thank you.
My potatoes on my allotment have just started to pop up, and my Red Duke of Yorks have surprised me with deep purple leaves! It’s so exciting!
I grew some Cosmos for the first time the year afore last. Beautiful flowers and I like tue delicate leaves.
It has such lovely filigree leaves, agreed. :-)
I love the idea of making a nutricious 'tea' for the garden! Brilliant!
Great video as always I just planted some potato’s see how I go 🇳🇿❤️
Great job! :-)
Wish I'd found these little videos.
What an wonderful energetic man😊
Cheers so much! :-)
. Thank you. Appreciate the tips for all those of us in zone eight who don’t have a greenhouse or cold frame - just the kitchen table or direct sow…
I run my town's public kitchen garden and this week I'm pregerminating some more flowers like cosmos and borage. I'm also assembling the onsite greenhouse. It's a big job but it's almost essential for growing things like tomatoes and cucumbers in a country with short and increasingly rainy summers.
Bravo❤
Just discovered your channel- just fab 😊😊😊
Welcome to the channel! :-)
Planted potatoes on Good Friday. I save my flower seeds fRom each year to plant
Happy Resurrection Day !!!
Thank you for another wonderful calming video! Give Rosie a big hug for me, what a cutie! 💗
Will do! :-)
Makes me excited for this season 😊
i know you probably are past the time for spinach planting in your zone but i was hoping we could get a spinach planting/harvesting masterclass. i absolutely love ALL your video's but your masterclass videos are unmatched. thank you for all the free knowledge and wonderful gardening tips and tricks.
Thanks so much for your kind words. You absolutely can sow spinach now - and on into late spring. Just keep everything nice and moist if its dry. This Short offers a few pointers, but a masterclass video on it is a great idea. th-cam.com/users/shorts3dS_g9VUHSE?si=9SALZyzY7C04JOTS
Just planted my winter-sown Romaine, Spinach, and Arugula seedlings into my raised bed and direct sowed seeds for Swiss Chard and Butterleaf Lettuce, Radishes, Bunching Onions, and Beets. I have row covers for the rougher weather nights (like thunderstorms with high winds and hail) and the potential of a hard frost or two here in Central Indiana. Love your videos and enthusiasm. Wish I could have a greenhouse but live in an urban neighborhood that has rules against such outbuildings. I am hoping to change that just need to get enough neighbors to vote on it.
Hope you manage to overturn the rule and get that vote on it! :-)
@@GrowVegThanks. I'll try, that's for sure. :)
Just germinated some carolina Reaper chillis as a challenge to see if i can get any fruit off them. Quite new to it all so its a fun experiment haha. Thank you for a great informative video as always!
Great job - that's a rather spicy choice! :-)
If you dry them, DO IT OUTSIDE! 😢 I made that mistake. I don't suggest it.
@@howmygardengrows3080 sorry to sound daft, what happened drying them inside?
Just wanted to say thanks, you’ve given me the push I need to get motoring and plant some things! 😂
That's fantastic to hear. Happy gardening! :-)
Awwww Rosie snuggling on the fleece 💕🐾
When using twiggy pea sticks do you tie the peas in? Or do they do it themselves with the wiggly thin green bits they produce? 💚
Yes that’s right, they find their own way on and up with their tendrils. But you can help them on to get them started by just hooking them up into place to start with.
@@GrowVeg great stuff 👍 thank you 💚
It is curious. Today, I checked the temperature on my balcony, where I have my seedlings, and it was 29.8 Celsius.
Spain is hotter than hell.
Same here in Serbia. Tomorrow is going to be even hotter, over 30C in northern regions. For the end of March, these temperatures are unheard of.
@a_l_e_k_sandra here where I live we have had temperatures over 31 already. 26th march. Last year, we experienced 44,3° in the shadow, and all plants died, even in the shadow. By the way, have you got any local seeds? I am interested in swaping seeds with people from different parts of the world, we have some extraordinary local varieties.
Wow, that's very warm already.
Found a good tip for retaining water in pots or trays a 12 tray put one used teabag at bottom of tray fill with compost water and sow seed
Great idea! :-)
Wow, If the opening shot is a magnolia stellata, that's the most bizarre coincidence, because I literally just bought one on a whim today.
It is indeed! :-)
Your videos are so genuine informative and a pleasure to watch. Had a question did you build cold frame in video? Do you have a video for building a cold frame. Would like to. Thx lete know thx Tim long Island new York zone 7 b
I did a video a long time back showing how to construct an off-the-shelf cold frame kit which might help, but you can, of course, make them from recycled materials too: th-cam.com/video/m2PJP5OJO0E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=QlQL9XpFyB7b5HMl
Dear Mr GrowVeg have you noticed the weather ? one more joyful veg growing video from you and I'll be round to give you a sharp poke in the eye
Haha - yes indeed, I probably deserve that! The rain will stop soon I'm sure...
Love your videos! Can you do an episode about potential pests you've dealt with and how (organically) you got rid of them? I am seeing many grub worms in my soil which I think are from the fig tree over my planter. I've seen many beetles flying over it which come from these grub worms. Do you know a non chemical method to reduce them?
I do use organic methods. This video is a good overview of my main methods: th-cam.com/video/29xCQ1m_xTw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Wx6vJ8KoGG5Xc-D6
April is that time of the year when I have to bind my hands so I don't fall into the pit of temptation and plant out on those deceptive sunny days, only to find tattered remains after the storm I know is still to come or the sudden recurrence of winter. I have risked it with the comfrey though because, aside from using that for fertiliser and compost, I make comfrey ointment and really need to make far more of it this year.
It is very beneficial, especially for osteoarthritic conditions, and I seem to have had so many more people asking me if I have a spare jar these days - which stretched me a bit last year, hence the proactive division and increase of my crop. I make quite a few ointments - dandelion, nettle, St John's Wort, Calendula being the favourites and all having different actions.
I've found life is easier if I regard weeds as useful. Dandelion is good as it adds calcium so I add leaves to the mix. Ditto for nettles - though an excellent very concentrated version can be made by filling a jar with alternate layers of nettle leaves and sugar and siphoning off the resultant thick liquid that emerges. It is excellent but needs even more dilution so a little goes a very long way.
I love your attitude to weeds. They have many uses! :-)
@@GrowVeg Thank you for your reply. It is always less wearing to encourage a weak point to turn into something useful and weeds won the war decades ago so we live happily together now in a kind of quiet truce - most of them possess healing qualities. Our ancestors were more sensible and cultivated them.
Lovely to see real world soil.
Hi Ben.. love the videos!! Could i ask a question?.. i burn a lot of peat briquettes... do you know if the peat ash would be a good fertilizer? Cheers 😊
If the peat briquettes are pure and haven't had anything unnatural/not organic on them, then you could use the ash around the garden I would imagine. I would view it a lot like wood ash. More on that here: th-cam.com/video/ZQAEQMvEtA0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JWlKLDzWonkhC-TJ
Also adding a new 20x40 ft area to grow!
Wow that’s a lot.
Great job! :-)
Ben , I have two gardening questions for you . 1. The potatoes I’m currently chitting are turning green . Are they still safe to plant ? 2. I have recently sown peas indoors in cups . Our nighttime temperatures are still fluctuating between mid twenties and thirties Fahrenheit , with our last frost date the last wknd in May. I know peas like it cool , but when is it safe to plant them out with nighttime temps that cold ?
Yes, you can definitely go ahead and plant those potatoes, no problem. As for the peas, I would maybe keep them indoors for another week or two if you can. Then maybe plant out under a row cover of fleece to keep the worst of the chill off, at least while there are still hard frosts. A light frost is fine, but mid twenties most nights may be a touch too fresh for them.
We've still been getting snow where I live, so I haven't gotten around to planting anything.
I've had a lot of trouble with beans this year. Our greenhouse has a fungus gnat problem and they seem to adore bean seeds. They lay eggs in moist soil/compost and the maggots will devour anything in there. So far not one bean has germinated; gnats getting most and the others rotting from being too wet. I've put cling film over a new sowing to try keep the gnats out; although I can see one gnat under the film.
My direct sown peas however have all germinated and are growing well.
Sorry to hear this - that's very frustrating. Do check out our fungus gnat guide: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/fungus-gnat/
Well, it's already hitting the 70-80F, in Southern US. So I already have garlic and onions looking fab, that I plant last fall. I also have planted peas, eggplants, tomatoes, and bell peppers in the garden. I just have to watch for cold snaps and cover. Hopefully it want be like last tow years and we have a really hard freeze.
Hope that’s it for your frosts now and the warm-season veggies pull through unscathed.
@@GrowVeg Made it through without any loss🙂
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I grow citrus in here in the UK (Bedfordshire) i no longer bother with expensive citrus feeds and instead just use goold old fish blood and bone followed by potash when they start to flower/fruit.I keep them outside for as long as possible and they are already out front in their new larger pots against a south facing wall.The lemon already has a mass of proto fruit and the blood orange is just starting to flower again after i picked the two remaining oranges also the *Kaffir lime has a new flush of fresh green leaves/growth.Citrus specially grown for the UK climate does very well but will need to be indoors somewhere protected like a shed,greenhouse or conservatory in the depths of winter just to be sure.
* Will not survive the winter unless indoors in the warm.
This is really useful advice, thanks so much for sharing this. 😀
great tipps.
May i just ask - where did you get these fantastic climbing helpers that you have from one bed to the other from?
Thanks so much. :-) The garden arches are from Agrs: agrs.co.uk/products/elegance-round-arch
Informative as usual. Thanks Ben. Is comfry invasive?
Booking 14 won't invade, he recommended planting that variety. But it stinks to high heaven!
Yes, definitely look for the more tidy clump-forming 'Bocking 14' variety. Other types can spread.
Is that a toilet paper tube I saw? I use those to germinate peas indoors too! Works great.
Yes indeed - they very versatile. :-)
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My poly tunnel is already hitting 30c+ when the suns out !
Wow, that's toasty already!
Hi Ben i kind of like keeping mine in a big clump is that OK or should I need to seperate them? My early potatoes are all up can't wait for them and ghee that I make for dinners and salads! I have about 60 tomato plants of different varieties (surprised when you add the value of them in pounds if I bought them in; all you need is a heat mat!) and they are still in the tunnel have to be careful the chucks don't get them outside - my frame was glass and it is broken! We need another rainwater tank - as it runs out late June. I like the box for your peas - I have a wayward mouse in the tunnel the cat can't get in there.
You'd be absolutely fine keeping your comfrey as a clump. I'm just splitting mine to spread it around a bit, that's all. Sounds like you're keeping busy in your garden already - fab stuff! :-)
I love following your channel. I have a question. You already plant many vegetables outside Even though it might still Get really cold on nights Even with some snow (at least here in Norway) will all the plants you planted outside, survive in 2-3 degrees for a night or two?
All of the cool-season crops like fava/broad beans, lettuces, spinach, beets, carrots and so on will be absolutely fine outside and will happily survive a light frost. The warm-season crops like tomatoes, climbing beans and squash will follow in May, once it's a touch warmer. :-)
Just thinned out my tons of radishes I sowed, always a hard job to do 😅
I felt bad for some seedlings, since most of then were all equality strong, so I just prepared some extra soil to replant them and they looking good to go!
Also, bean wondering if its now the time to pre-plant climbing beans? Last frost date for me is mid may, so I guess till then I could start growing beans inside, or what do you say?
Yes, you could certainly start the beans off inside, ready to plant in May. 😀🌱
Hi Ben
If I’ve had seedling in a green house for a month or so do I have to still harden the plants off. I keep the green house about 70 degrees all the time
Yes, I would still look to harden off for a week or so if the greenhouse is kept that warm, though you may find outside conditions aren't that far off towards the end of spring anyhow.
I didn't know I was supposed to put my plants out for 4 hrs at first to harden off so I damaged my lima bean plant and killed my parsley. I'm in zone 6 the temps were in the 70's then deeped down to 49. Starting over!
So sorry to hear this. It's best to acclimatize plants to the outdoors over a gradually longer period over the course of about a week.
I just bought sweet snap pea seeds yesterday! How many do you reckon I'll need to sow to have snacks throughout the summer? I have a tendency to sow too many, I've only got a small bolcony garden.
I would imagine two or three 45cm (18in)-wide containers would give enough plants for regular picking, but you would likely need to sow again every month or two to keep them coming. :-)
I started my borage seeds, marigolds, and Dutch Iris bulbs just last night. I'm a little worried to start my cosmos and zinnias too early (last frost date is May 5)...😬
I think so long as you can keep the cosmos and zinnias safe from frost you'll be fine. I started mine off a few weeks ago and they are now in my unheated greenhouse and doing just fine.