When is your 2010 season seed start date?

[mdvpc]

I started my seed today. About a week or so late.

[kwselke]

Here in Houston we're supposed to have high temperatures around 70 for the next two days. If the wind behaves I'm going to take the babies outside to get a little sun.

[lefty_logan]

I started my seeds on Tuesday 1/19

[pacmanJohn]

Kat, sorry I'm just replying to your post. The tomatoes in my pic are Brandywine Sudduth's. They look pretty red in the picture but they are the big beautiful pinks. Most people seem to have trouble with numbers from the Sudduth's but I have always had good numbers and great looking ones.

[KLorentz]

I grew Cowlicks that where nice and big like that last year. I will get a chance to try out the Sudduth strain this year and compare the two. I was really happy to have such huge tomatoes from the Cowlicks. And the taste was great.


Kevin

[matertoo]

I plan on starting my seed on February 13th. Looking forward to growing some new maters.

Happy Matering,

Paul

[stormymater]

I WANTED to start my seed in February but it ain't gonna happen. Looks like 3/2/10 is going to be the best I can muster (still it is sooner than last year 3/10 - 3/18 starts & they did fine here).

[svalli]

I have started peppers second week of January and some of the tomatoes week ago. Hundres and thousands was the first tomato to pop up. There will still be about four months, before I can put them outdoors, but the season here is so short that the plants must be ready to bloom when moved outside.

[brokenbar]

Peppers March first, Tomatoes, Eggplant, Gourds, Other Melons April first, Watermelon, Tomatillos May 1st. Our average last day of frost here is June 1st... On a GREAT year, last frost middle of May and first frost middle of September...the years that keep hope eternal... I am amusing myself today filling out plant tags...

[rigdond]

I started my tomatoes 2 days ago. I'm hoping to get the peppers started this week.

[Jayc]

I started sowing some tomato and chillies in mid January, they will be grown on indoors, first in the house on windowsills then a green house which has a little heat. Hopefully they are well grown when it is time to plant them out after the last frost, into either a greenhouse or polytunnel .
Similar to Svalli, summers can be short and it rains alot! So I try and start early as it is a bit of a juggle raising enough plants on the windowsill.

[yotetrapper]

Originally Posted by svalli

I have started peppers second week of January and some of the tomatoes week ago. Hundres and thousands was the first tomato to pop up. There will still be about four months, before I can put them outdoors, but the season here is so short that the plants must be ready to bloom when moved outside.

I'm guessing you must use a greenhouse? If not, how do you manage that?

[cmpman1974]

I start my peppers at varied times. Some right now, some in early March. Tomatoes are started 3/15 or 4/1. I plant out 6/1 usually. I grow tons of other veggies and sowing times obviously vary.

[svalli]

Originally Posted by yotetrapper

I'm guessing you must use a greenhouse? If not, how do you manage that?

I do have a 10'x12' greenhouse , but it is still in it's packing box...
I keep my plants indoors by windows with additional fluorescent lights. When weather permits I will move the plants outside into a 3'x6' plastic tent greenhouse, where I have a small electric heater for really cold nights. Moving outdoors may happen earliest in mid May, so our spare bedroom will have quite a jungle growing by then.

My in-laws have an extra GH, but this year I am not planning to grow any tomatoes there due to the long distance and feeling of guilt when they have to water my plants. This means that I should not grow a lot of seedlings, since I have to grow them in containers in the city. It is so hard to select the varieties and not to sow too much...

[swiniopas]

i will start my seeds in mid or early march. my date to plant outside is mid may.