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How late is too late?
All,
Well, I learned this year how early is *too* early (killing most of my seedlings by putting them out in mid-April), but now I'm wondering... How late is too late to bother? Should I go ahead and try to start my cukes and musk melons over again? Should I expect anything out of the grape tomato seedlings I just planted? Also, when do *you* start your indoor seedlings? I think I started mine too early and I put them out too early because they were getting quite large. I'll remember any hints you give me until next year... I promise! - John |
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"ZeroWing" wrote in message news | All, | | Well, I learned this year how early is *too* early (killing most of my | seedlings by putting them out in mid-April), but now I'm wondering... | | How late is too late to bother? Should I go ahead and try to start my | cukes and musk melons over again? Should I expect anything out of the | grape tomato seedlings I just planted? | | Also, when do *you* start your indoor seedlings? I think I started | mine too early and I put them out too early because they were getting | quite large. | | I'll remember any hints you give me until next year... I promise! | | - John John, we always wait until April 15. Planting is our reward for completing taxes! Most seedlings take 45 days or so to begin bearing so yes, you can start over again altho the heat and lack of water makes it a little more labor intensive. Raleighgirl |
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On 2005-06-15, ZeroWing wrote:
All, Well, I learned this year how early is *too* early (killing most of my seedlings by putting them out in mid-April), but now I'm wondering... How late is too late to bother? Should I go ahead and try to start my cukes and musk melons over again? Should I expect anything out of the grape tomato seedlings I just planted? If you don't plant you know you will have 0 harvest. If you do plant you have at least some chance of harvesting some things. All it can cost is the seed and fertilizer. Also, when do *you* start your indoor seedlings? I think I started mine too early and I put them out too early because they were getting quite large. I'll remember any hints you give me until next year... I promise! o YOu want to plant them indoors about 6-8 weeks before putting them in the ground. May 1 is my target date so back up to somewhere between March 1 and 15. I start tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants, but most other things I just plant the seed in the ground around May 1. It is better to over plant and have to thin than to get spotty germination. - John -- Wes Dukes (wdukes.pobox@com) Swap the . and the @ to email me please. is a garbage address. |
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John,
For starters, you might not want to plant all your seedlings at the same time (kinda like not "putting all your eggs in one basket") -- but trying to get a jump on the season is a very natural thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. As for starting plants, I try to work back from the optimal (or desired!) planting date. Sometimes this works out fine, sometimes not. (Are ya starting to see a theme here?) I was too lazy to start my own seedlings this year, but I paid the price in "lack of diversity" -- no matter where I went for plants, once I saw the "Bonnie's" containers, I knew that I would find the same few varieties of tomatoes, for example. I can't advise you on cukes or melons, and when to plant them here, but most likely someone else can. I *will* say that when I have started my own seeds, the seed starting kits like APS have proved to produce seedlings superior to the little peat pot trays. (Some years, I just don't feel like messing with loose potting soil, which can play havoc with my asthma. But, then in the fall, I pull up plants which barely sent out roots past the peat pot "netting" -- which seems to be fairly indestructible, alas, based on the intact stuff I find in the compost heap years later.) So, John, check back with us around Thanksgiving, when our mailboxes are full of seed catalogues! Anne Lurie NE Raleigh "ZeroWing" wrote in message news All, Well, I learned this year how early is *too* early (killing most of my seedlings by putting them out in mid-April), but now I'm wondering... How late is too late to bother? Should I go ahead and try to start my cukes and musk melons over again? Should I expect anything out of the grape tomato seedlings I just planted? Also, when do *you* start your indoor seedlings? I think I started mine too early and I put them out too early because they were getting quite large. I'll remember any hints you give me until next year... I promise! - John |
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