Supercharge Your Spring Garden and start now
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- This will get your spring garden growing fast before it all bolts.
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Favorite quote of the day ..”If you have strong roots, you have strong fruits”,
Hi Ben,
It is a little cooler here in Alabama, and we are back to seasonal temperatures. Wearing shorts and a t-shirt for a couple days in the winter was nice while it lasted. I'm looking at the forecast, and a hard freeze is in the forecast, snow too, for the 21st and 22nd. This is normal, and what I look for before transplanting my seedlings. It will be Feb 22, before I start transplanting.
However, I did plant seeds. I sowed seeds for parsnips, Danvers carrots, Malaga Radish, Giant Radish of Sicily, golden beetroot, and purple top turnips. In a few days, I'll sow seeds for Mammoth snow peas, and shelling peas. I forgot to fertilize the beds I sowed the beetroot and turnips seeds in. Not a big deal. After the rain passes. Thursday, I'll give them a sprinkling of granular fertilizer. They'll be fine.
I still need to repot my tomatoes. That will have to wait until Thursday too. I didn't know that dill seeds had a very short shelf life, half that of onions, so I need to buy new seed. I got a couple of sprouts, but only a fraction of what I want. I have a reorder list for seeds for next year, so I'll start with heirloom and open pollinated seeds that will last a few years. I'll wait until later to order hybrids.
I also use Plant tone for everything! Love it. In the spring, I also throw in a handful of blood meal. In the summer, I throw in a handful of blood meal AND bone meal 👍🏼
Trying to master growing watermelon in zone 6a. After a few years of trial and error, I finally settled on 2 varieties that produce fairly well with minimal management. Charleston Gray produces a large long fruit and black diamond produces a rounder type, still hefty in size and weight. Now that I have my species picked, I just want to hit the point where I am producing without failure and have learned some new tips from countless of hours of youtubes binging 😊
Great video! Love to see what other people are doing right now. I am super excited to be growing Ginger and Tumeric for the first time this summer ❤
❤ you forever changed my seed starting success last year when you mentioned dropping a couple little osmocote fertilizer balls into the soil...wow my spinach, kale and collard seedlings are picture perfect this yr. 😊
Glad that helped!
Which video had that suggestion? I must have missed that and definitely need the help.
@@alissahoke9215 it was sometime around this time last year, 2024, but I could not tell you which video in particular it was
@@alissahoke9215 Ben said in this video that future videos would be talking quite a bit about fertilizer so maybe he'll mention it again
L❤ving the greenery in your raised beds😊 We still have some nights in the teens forecasted here in southern missouri so holding off about 10 more days before I plant out seedlings...very 😁 excited to do so though.
Jeff from East Tennessee. Got a ton of cabbage ready! But we are getting inches and inches of rain. Also some nights in mid to lower 20’s. Cold worries me a little. It’s been a more normal cold this winter. It’s stayed cold for longer periods of time. Not the big swings of up and down temperatures in most recent winters. I just even may not plant any cabbage.
Now I do have a bunch of broccoli and intermediate day onions. Going to plant 3 short rows of broccoli and onions. Broccoli Varieties are: Monty, Green Magic, and Castle Dome! All are great and makes a giant head of broccoli. Just want to see the variety that produces first!!! All plants are looking great this year!! They jumped up and have grown with no problems at all!! I have got more and more grow lights. And plants just have done so much better!! Not really any shock when I put them outside in the sun!!
Looks like you are off to the races this year. Thanks!!!
I’m going to be trying a variety of different peppers. I usually just do bell peppers so I’m excited about the new additions.
😂 regarding peeing in your garden/compost, too funny.
Biquinho hot peppers! Just got to get my beds amended. Just to the north of you in Tidewater 7b/8a.
Here in southern Ontario we are still battling winter. ( calling for either freezing rain or a foot of snow tomorrow into thurs and another heavy system coming in next weekend dumping even more sigh...) My greenhouse has been 70° thru the day but dropping down to 15 at night. Just a bit too cold. My broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts are just coming up in my seed trays. My first planting of dwarf lettuce is going crazy and my second batch is up. First year trying brussel sprouts and haven't had luck with broccoli yet so we shall see seeing as I've started them so early, if I can get them into the ground before they get too big!
I hope the weather cooperates for you.
I'm just trying to get broccoli and cabbage. I think I started my seeds to late but I'm still going to try and see what happens. Got some that I over wintered, hoping they produce before time to plant the spring garden. I'm in pickens County SC. I'm still learning this is only my 4th year gardening.
If it is too late, do it again towards the end of summer for a fall/winter garden. Really learned to garden for 3 seasons and I didn't do the best because of slug pressure (WA) but it definitely was good for my celery until it got down to the high 20's. Broccoli was good until my future son in laws dog got in my garden and tore it up. Lol
I'm growing Hossinator and Invincible tomatoes this year so I'm excited about that. And another shot at a good potato harvest. My potatoes have mysteriously died 2 years in a row. They start out like a ball of fire and get about knee high, wilt and die. I plant around Valentine's day every year so it's not a timing issue. I thought it was leaf foot bugs but was super diligent about killing them last year and the same thing happened. I'm plagued with millipedes so maybe it's them. Not sure what I can do about them
i had that issue one year and it was fire ants
I'm using chemicals this year. I can't with all the bugs and infections. I hardly got a crop last year. I have to put everything in pots also because the sun becomes too strong for the plants.
What zone are you in. Planning a garden for the first time in zone 7a. Starting indoors with celery, tomatoes, and peppers. ❤️
Never ask Ben about his zone! 😉
I dont do zones I am in coastal NC. Zones dont matter for vegetables
@outsidestuff4867 😅😉
Im wanting to try red cabbage but I can't find seeds for it. I'm going to hit a couple nurseries because they might have it. Other than that, its just getting all around better.
I hope you can grow them. I ve never had luck with red cabbage
With the peeing in the compost, its a great inocculator (I think I spelled that right, don't think I have ever had to spell it before. Lol) just don't do it if you are on medications.
We have been doing it for years works well. just not in the garden lol
Where are you getting bulk compost and topsoil to fill your beds? This is my first year using raised beds (I have lots of inground beds).
where are you located?
@ I am located in GA near Atlanta.
If you would give us an update on how the urea works for you. I heard it will burn leaves, so I hope it doesn't burn your roots.
Thank you and good luck.
I will
When we use organic granular animals dig everything up overnight. Not sure what to do…other than using strictly water soluble early in the day.
Ihavnt had any problem with this. If it is anything that gets loose with water its gone in a day. fish fertilizer and blood meal is a magnet in my garden
@ we’ve used Espoma for years because we forget during winter, and every spring the raccoons or some other creature digs up every plant. Not risking it again.