When is your 2010 season seed start date? - Page 4

yotetrapper · January 6, 2010

I'm planting my few peppers next week, and my mater the second week of february for plant out in mid to late april. I'm wanting to get them nice big and bushy before plant out.

b54red · January 8, 2010

I'll be starting my first batch of tomatoes and peppers this week and will continue every few weeks right through July. I will be starting some of all my peppers and the very early and cold tolerant varieties of tomatoes this week. In two weeks will start more of the ones that don't germinate good and also the varieties that don't set fruit in heat. After that I'll plant heat tolerant varieties until July and in July will again start varieties with short maturities for the fall garden.
This method gives me a lot of extra plants to give away but I always have some plants ready to go into the garden to replace something that is finished whether it be cucumbers or a tomato.

Mojo · January 8, 2010

OK, I didn't get it done New Year's Day. But I got it done on the 6th! Maters, a few eggplants and some peppers. NOT doing squash under the dome this year, learned my lesson last year. (They get too tall too fast, plus they are a shorter crop and I was under pressure to put them in the ground early.)

snappybob · January 8, 2010

January 23 or 24. I have a feeling winter will drag on a little longer than usual this year.

mtbigfish · January 8, 2010

I have been trying to start for 2 weeks but haven't seemed to find the time - so anyday now
Dennis

Suze · January 8, 2010

I hope to have all my tomato and pepper seeds sowed by 1/10 to 1/15. That way, I'll have decent sized tomato transplants ready to set out by mid March. I don't usually plant out peppers until the last week of March to 4/1.

Nothing sowed yet, but I do have my flats rinsed and bleached. Still working on the list.

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Originally Posted by snappybob

January 23 or 24. I have a feeling winter will drag on a little longer than usual this year.

Bob - I'm wondering about that too. In any case, as cold as it has been in Texas this winter, even if we don't have "late" frosts or freezes, I figure it's definitely going to have an effect on soil temperature. It is supposed to get down to either 13F or 11F here tonight in Elgin/Bastrop, and 14-16F tomorrow night. Just beyond unbelievable, and especially to have it drop that low two nights in a row. I see that even parts of Houston and San Antonio have a hard freeze warning in effect. Wow.

duajones · January 8, 2010

Started a few seeds 2 days ago with a transplant target date towards the end of February.

Suze, I have given the soil temp thing some thought as well since we are having a colder than normal winter here in South Texas. I have planted out as early as the 2nd week of Feb but moved that up 10 days or so with that in thought. I also put mulch down pretty quickly after I have transplanted and plan to hold off on that this year in hopes of helping warm the soil

jtharper76 · January 11, 2010

Over here in South Louisiana, I will be starting mine this week. I will also start working with my soil once it get above freezing here in SOUTH LOUISIANA. This morning it was a balmy 19 degrees. SOUTH LOUISIANA, huh!!!!

duajones · January 11, 2010

I hear ya, I normally have my soil completely ready to go at this point. This fall it has just been too wet for me to do much. But after last spring and summer drought I will not complain. I have baby plants beginning to peek their heads out of the soil as of this morning.

Mojo · January 12, 2010

I went out and tromped around the beds today. The broccoli is recovering but the peas have had it. Usually I see some 'mater volunteers but this past cold snap killed them stone cold dead. I won't be doing any serious soil work until March 1 because of the broccoli. I'm not complaining: broccoli is num-nums and it's going to be cold through spring break this year, I'm feeling.

yotetrapper · January 13, 2010

Haha my garden is hidden under 2 feet of snow. You guys are making me very jealous. Once the white stuff goes and the ground thaws, will be another month at least before it's dry enough to even look at....

Dewayne mater · January 13, 2010

Took the plunge last night - January 12- planting seeds in cells, covering them with plastic and now the wait to germinate begins! I hope to plant out starting mid March. This is only my second time to plants from seed, so this is still experimental time wise. I know last time, under grow lights in a cool garage the growth from sprout to transplant was very slow (2 months for smallish transplants). This year I'm adding heated floor mats to the mix and hope this will increase the sprout to transplant growth time line. Plus with the extreme cold this winter, the garage would be too darn cold without a heat source other than lights. I also went nuts and bought water walls to see what that does for me in March, which often ranges from cold to warm.

pacmanJohn · January 13, 2010

Central Kentucky (Zone 6)

Start seeds first of March. Plant every year the week after 'Derby' (remember I live in Kenucky

), which is second week of May.

Flame of Bodensee · January 24, 2010

well some peppers are seedlings since 21 January second row sowed today.
last year i started with the tomatoes in january first week, the plants grow too high without blooms till i could plant them out so i harvest less till the plants died.
So i start tomatoes in march only, till july the grow fast then.

rhynes_boomer · January 24, 2010

Hi pacmanJohn,

Just curious? The picture you have on your ID, what kind of tomato's are they? I would like to find some if I do not have them already.

Kat

Quote:

Originally Posted by pacmanJohn

Central Kentucky (Zone 6)

Start seeds first of March. Plant every year the week after 'Derby' (remember I live in Kenucky

), which is second week of May.

January 8, 2010	#48
Mojo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 317	OK, I didn't get it done New Year's Day. But I got it done on the 6th! Maters, a few eggplants and some peppers. NOT doing squash under the dome this year, learned my lesson last year. (They get too tall too fast, plus they are a shorter crop and I was under pressure to put them in the ground early.) __________________ There is no logical response to the question, "Why won't you let me plant more tomatoes?"

January 8, 2010	#52
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	Started a few seeds 2 days ago with a transplant target date towards the end of February. Suze, I have given the soil temp thing some thought as well since we are having a colder than normal winter here in South Texas. I have planted out as early as the 2nd week of Feb but moved that up 10 days or so with that in thought. I also put mulch down pretty quickly after I have transplanted and plan to hold off on that this year in hopes of helping warm the soil __________________ Duane Jones

January 11, 2010	#54
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	I hear ya, I normally have my soil completely ready to go at this point. This fall it has just been too wet for me to do much. But after last spring and summer drought I will not complain. I have baby plants beginning to peek their heads out of the soil as of this morning. __________________ Duane Jones

January 12, 2010	#55
Mojo Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 317	I went out and tromped around the beds today. The broccoli is recovering but the peas have had it. Usually I see some 'mater volunteers but this past cold snap killed them stone cold dead. I won't be doing any serious soil work until March 1 because of the broccoli. I'm not complaining: broccoli is num-nums and it's going to be cold through spring break this year, I'm feeling. __________________ There is no logical response to the question, "Why won't you let me plant more tomatoes?"

January 13, 2010	#58
pacmanJohn Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Frankfort, KY Posts: 143	Central Kentucky (Zone 6) Start seeds first of March. Plant every year the week after 'Derby' (remember I live in Kenucky ), which is second week of May. __________________ John

January 6, 2010	#46
yotetrapper Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Oakland MS Posts: 231	I'm planting my few peppers next week, and my mater the second week of february for plant out in mid to late april. I'm wanting to get them nice big and bushy before plant out.

January 8, 2010	#47
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I'll be starting my first batch of tomatoes and peppers this week and will continue every few weeks right through July. I will be starting some of all my peppers and the very early and cold tolerant varieties of tomatoes this week. In two weeks will start more of the ones that don't germinate good and also the varieties that don't set fruit in heat. After that I'll plant heat tolerant varieties until July and in July will again start varieties with short maturities for the fall garden. This method gives me a lot of extra plants to give away but I always have some plants ready to go into the garden to replace something that is finished whether it be cucumbers or a tomato.

January 8, 2010	#49
snappybob SETTFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 214	January 23 or 24. I have a feeling winter will drag on a little longer than usual this year.

January 8, 2010	#50
mtbigfish Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Chillicothe Ohio - left Calif July 2010 Posts: 451	I have been trying to start for 2 weeks but haven't seemed to find the time - so anyday now Dennis

January 11, 2010	#53
jtharper76 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ponchatoula , Louisiana Posts: 99	Over here in South Louisiana, I will be starting mine this week. I will also start working with my soil once it get above freezing here in SOUTH LOUISIANA. This morning it was a balmy 19 degrees. SOUTH LOUISIANA, huh!!!!

January 13, 2010	#57
Dewayne mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2008 Location: DFW, Texas Posts: 1,212	Took the plunge last night - January 12- planting seeds in cells, covering them with plastic and now the wait to germinate begins! I hope to plant out starting mid March. This is only my second time to plants from seed, so this is still experimental time wise. I know last time, under grow lights in a cool garage the growth from sprout to transplant was very slow (2 months for smallish transplants). This year I'm adding heated floor mats to the mix and hope this will increase the sprout to transplant growth time line. Plus with the extreme cold this winter, the garage would be too darn cold without a heat source other than lights. I also went nuts and bought water walls to see what that does for me in March, which often ranges from cold to warm.

January 24, 2010	#59
Flame of Bodensee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Germany Posts: 39	well some peppers are seedlings since 21 January second row sowed today. last year i started with the tomatoes in january first week, the plants grow too high without blooms till i could plant them out so i harvest less till the plants died. So i start tomatoes in march only, till july the grow fast then. __________________ Let the Vegetables grow.....