Anyone doing your seed plantins for spring right now

The ones you start in the green house or back room?
Its cold here today and last year I started my tomatoes Feb. 15th.

Lavina

I don't start tomatoes until March 1, but English peas, onions and lettuce are up and running. Irish potatoes, spinach, carrots, beets are all in the ground. Cabbage, Cauliflower, and broccoli plants are going great in the cold frame.

I was supposed to have seed potatoes delivered last week and I just received a notice saying it will be another week before they get here. Grrrrrr
My cabbages, started last fall, are all doing well and are almost ready for cole slaw.

Oh, man...I'm behind. I better hurry and catch up...granted, I'm a little further North like Lavina, but I'm still doing pruning and haven't done anything in the way of veges yet, except buy some seed. Every spring I say I'm going to be efficient, get it all going on time, but it never happens....

I hear 'ya, yotedog. I've decided gardening is great for those who enjoy guilt...

I started radishes, lettuce, leeks and turnips so far. My cabbage is doing great, but the lettuce I planted in the Fall bit the dust in all th cold.
When I get the leaks in the greenhouse roof fixed, I'll start tomatoes, etc.
Barb

I have planted in the ground shallots, bunching green onions, 2 different leaf lettuces and arugula. The arugula is already up. I have also already planted blueberries and raspberries, some in pots, and I have rhubarb planted in pots.

In an unheated sunroom I have sown 4 different tomatoes, some dill, chives, dahlias and agapanthus.

I started a few weeks ago.

Tomatoes:

Early Girl - Either I forgot to put seeds in the pots or they are all really late.
Jubilee - Sprouting already
Roma - Sprouting already
Cherry - Sprouting already

Flowers:

Poppy, Wrinkled Rose, Red Peony, and just plain Red
Lisanthus, Cinderella Series
Chocolate Vine
Datura, Lavender, Discolor, Fatuosa, Wrightii, Belle Blanche, Evening Fragrance
Honeywort
Orchid Vine - Bauhinia corymbosa
Primula, Windsor Series
Snail Vine, purple and yellow which is Adzuki, snail vine w/yellow flowers
Corkscrew Vine
Blue Shrimp Plant
Alstroemeria - Orange King
Candy Lily
English Daisy - Habanera white w/red tips and Strawberries & Cream
Dutchman's Pipe - White Veined and Gigantica
Passion Flower - Aurantia, Subpeltata, Alata & others all in the reds or pink colors

To be planted in a few weeks:

Zinnia, Candy Cane, Peppermint, Candy Stripe, Dahlia Flowering
Calendula, Orange Porcupine, Citrus Smoothie
Cross Vine - Pink
Hibiscus Chablis & Pinot Noir
Petunia, Double Cascade Series, Opera Series and Prism Sunshine
Morning Glory - Too many to name. All the rare ones I have.

Also planting any seed that is more than 3 years old to get fresh seeds.

Whew! I'm tired!

X

That is funny about your Early Girls; if you did forget I can associate with that. It is exactly the sort of thing I would do. :-)

Calendulas are winter flowers down here and will poop out by May. Do you have a longer bloom period for them?

It is way too late but I had some broccoli, spinach and savoy cabbage seeds so I threw them into some plugs. Maybe I'll get lucky. I also planted some castor beans, cassia and more nasturtiums since the cold got most of mine. They too will poop out by May.

This is my first year with calendulas in SC. When I lived in Virginia I waited with the calendulas because they seem to grow so fast and would be ready for transplanting before it was safe .. considering it was a different zone, I guess I'll start them tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up!

Well I'm sure I forgot cause all 4 of my cups with seeds in them are bare or they all signed a mass suicide pact and composted themselves cause I can't find any seeds rooting around with a pick.

A

LOL

Well, I replanted the Early Girl and discovered why I couldn't find any in the cups .. apparently they are tiny because the seeds were pelleted. Judging from the number of seeds I had left, I'm sure I planted them in the first place.

Time will tell!

X

They are not that tiny, but several vendors are pushing pelleted tomato seeds this year, and you are not the only one experiencing germination problems with them.

Hmmm, interesting .. I'll see if I can find some more that aren't pelleted.

X

Here in West Columbia

Started Feb 21

Tomatoes:

Brandywine Red
Delicious
Rutgers
Marion - few up

Started Feb 18

Leek
Cabbage - up
Artichoke - up
Asparagus
Celery

Marigold, Marigold, and more Marigold - all up

Feb 19

Rhubarb
Strawberry - Ozark Beauty
Onion

Also mowed cover crop of Austrian Winter Peas, Hairy Vetch and Oat

Feb 28

Potatoes - in straw (first attempt at this)

Tell us about your potatoes in straw; how are you doing it?

Yeah .. that's a new one on me!

X