[CatOwner]

Hasn’t Biden already outlawed home gardens?

[Rio]

We have seeds started indoors. Can’t plant until Mother’s Day.

[waterhill]

1st. I’m sorry you live up there.

2nd. I live in Texs. My sugar snaps are 4 foot tall. I have tomatoes and potatoes ann carrots, broccoli, cabbage, greens.

Good luck and have fun. I love my garden.

[EinNYC]

Here in Baltimore, frost-free date is about May 1. My hostas, heucheras, strawberries, most of my perennials, etc. are already bursting like rockets from the soil. My roses are fully leafed out, too. I’m looking forward to seeing my beautiful hostas in full leaf and to planting my vegetable garden.

[xoxox]

Is northern jer-z the real garden area?

[FamiliarFace]

If anyone is interested in a garden thread, here’s the latest monthly that started yesterday.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4228224/posts

[Georgia Girl 2]

I had terrible luck with those but good luck with the Cherokee Purple variety.

[moovova]

You can have some of the 82° we’ve got today.

And yes...I’m out in the yard. Yard work never ends.

[AppyPappy]

We are supposed to get snow this week but I have plants indoors coming up. Tomatoes, peppers and cannabis.

[Osage Orange]

I’m in NE OK....got Tom plants growing already...And some Hot peppers...Chilly here today...47 degrees...supposed to warm up.

[cdcdawg]

I already have potatoes and carrots going. First time for both of those. I cannot wait to get the rest in. Cilantro survived the Winter.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, come on! You can get some radishes, peas and spinach started, can’t you?

[Pollard]

I'm in Missouri so about the same hardiness zone as you and Southwestern Canada but our humid 100 degree Summers make it different.

Looks like you're 7a and I'm 6b since I'm in central MO. I've got bok choy and peas that needs to go out but it will be 31 tomorrow morning so I'll wait until the weekend when lows are back up to the mid to high 40s. They can handle low 30s but probably not on their first few nights. I want to let them settle in for a few days of mild.

Got peppers and tomatoes started in cell trays and just replanted lettuce & greens seeds due to a mishap on my first batch. Temp probe fell out and heat mats stayed on and cooked them dry.

I've got a mini greenhouse in the corner of an unheated spare room for starting seeds. I removed the cover after first use and just drape some plastic sheeting over it on occasion.

Bottom shelf nearly on floor is storage. That gives me three shelves for six 1020 trays with cell counts from 18 up to 72, depending on cell(pot) size. If I used all 72 cell trays, I could start 432 seeds at once. Not bad for a 2'x2' floor space.

18 inch grow lights hang from the shelves to light the next shelf down with one set hanging from the top frame for the top shelf. Had to steal the wire rack from bottom and set it across the top frame to have something to hang from.

Had some 1/4" thick, foil lined bubble wrap insulation so I put that on the shelves and set heat mats on top and then 1020 cell trays.

Just got into seed starting a few years ago and am still learning but it's my favorite part of gardening, except for the eating part. I need to start about a month earlier though.

[Pollard]

Yellow Pear Tomato. Grew some year before last. Skin’s a little thick but the flavor’s good. Barry’s Crazy Cherry is another yellow one, so named due to the crazy amount of maters on each cluster. I counted over 200 fruits on one plant.

Rosella is a good purple cherry. Chadwick Cherry is a large red cherry and good for halving/quartering for a salad.

[Danie_2023]

I’m starting today by planting two Lemon Boy tomatoes and four Beefmaster tomato from Home Depot. Also will plant Mammoth Jalapeno, Hot Banana and Sweet Banana pepper plants. After that, the sky’s the limit (my endurance is the only issue). I’ll have five other Beefmaster tomato plants and a few Jalapeno plants potted and saved from last year to plant when I can. Have some squash seedlings to plant this week. Also have lots of veg seeds to plant around later this week. But that will get me started.

If you like yellow or orange tomatoes, try Orange Oxeheart. They are truly like a fruit vs. a veggie and they are awesome. I can’t find them or the seeds here now, but you can still buy seeds on the internet. Here’s a pic...

https://cdn.commercev3.net/cdn.totallytomato.com/images/popup/00527.jpg