Seed Starting Part Three with Susan's in the Garden (2024)

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This is the third installment in garden writer Susan Mulvihill's indoor seed-starting series. In it, she provides updates on how her seedlings are doing and review when to water and fertilize them; when to start your seeds based on your last frost date; explain the differences between cool and warm-season vegetable crops; when to plant your tomato and pepper seeds; and she'll share a great seed-starting resource on her website, SusansintheGarden.com.
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b. She is an #epicgardeningambassador for @epicgardening.
You can order signed copies of Susan's newest book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, by sending her an email at Susan@SusansintheGarden.com. Her other book is The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook, which is all about insects and how to deal with the damaging ones organically.
Here are her affiliate links to the books on Amazon:
1. Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook: amzn.to/3uIMA0A.
2. Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook: amzn.to/3Jh6aXS.
Susan has much more than this RU-vid channel! Follow her on:
Blog: susansinthegarden.com/
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Email me: Susan@SusansintheGarden.com

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@FaithyKresha 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Susan! The Spokane zones chart is a great resource for us fellow Spokane gardeners.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! I'm so glad it is helpful.

@Akasha0777 5 месяцев назад

I am so grateful for all the information you are sharing with us Susan. You are a great teacher. 🙏 I am soaking it all in like a dry sponge. Let the 2024 season begin!! 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌻

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad to hear you've been enjoying my videos and that they're helpful! I really appreciate your comments.

@donnamullins2089 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the website tip. Great information.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful, Donna!

@Sweettomatovine 5 месяцев назад

Great video ❤

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@franwilson9324 5 месяцев назад

Great information and explanations. I so appreciate all that you share with your subscribers, thank you!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much, Fran.

@mysterblue313setstfin9 5 месяцев назад

Great share once again thank you happy gardening 💪🏾🌲

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

@kenbrown438 5 месяцев назад

I just got my notification and rushed right over !!!!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Well, that's cool! Thanks.

@juice007 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for making a third video and answering more questions.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

My pleasure! I'm glad you found it helpful.

@jucjuc314 4 месяца назад

That Spokane Zone with the % amd dates chart looks so useful! I am jealous but happy you have it.. 😄 I can't find that for Germany /Mannheim /the Region around yet. But I know the frost dates, they are easy to find, so it is not critical. Catching up on your videos now, have been on holiday for a while, wanted to "check - in' and say hello to you! 😄🤗 Greetings, Judit Ps: Bill's onions look amazing, I am doing the same method, as he does! 🤗

@SusansInTheGarden 4 месяца назад

Hello, Judit! I'm glad all is well with you and I hope you had a lovely holiday. I will let Bill know that he has a fellow onion-grower! Take care.

@beadingrams 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for the new video. You answered my questions on the onions, perfect and the time to start tomatoes and why. I love when you explain the reasons and also your research information is wonderful. Thank you for the extra work you put into your videos.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you so much!

@marilynm8812 5 месяцев назад

It is so hard to wait to put some plants in the ground; but when I do the weather slways changes even for a day and you have to worry and protect them. Nerve wracking.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I totally understand. Timing is everything and a lot of times, Mother Nature doesn't like to cooperate.

@catiasilva2378 5 месяцев назад

An enormours hug from Madrid, Spain! You explain everything so well! Even english not being my first language I understand everything! Thank you so much! I will make sure I start my tomatoes at the right time this year. Will try to grow my onions using this method. ❤❤

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Buenos dias, Catia! It is very nice to meet you. Thank you for your wonderful comments. I'm glad you have been enjoying my videos!

@Mary.inthegarden 5 месяцев назад

Wow! Thank you for the chart, it is very useful and appears to be accurate

@Andrea-si2vs 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for all the great info, as always! I used your epic gardening discount code last night. I did my main purchase when they ran their holiday sale and stocked up on a bunch of their awesome trays. At the time, I was too cheap to buy the 5" pots, but I realized my tomatoes and peppers will thank me for being prepared later this spring. While there, I also found more seeds I just couldn't live without 😊

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

It's hard to resist, isn't it?! I have the 5" pots and they are AWESOME. I'm glad my discount code helped with the bottom line.

@lucytree7892 5 месяцев назад

Lot of great info on starting seeds. Lovely Greens, is also telling her followers to not start plants too early since plants are not ment to stress out in pots.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Exactly. I know we gardeners are enthusiastic about getting our plants started, but if we wait for the right time, our plants will do so much better! Cheers.

@user-fy9pq2tk1i 5 месяцев назад

Susan ,would Bill agree to show us how to plant his onions when the time is right? I think your viewers would enjoy learning from him. Thanks

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I will attempt to get him to do that. He'd rather be behind the scenes! Although I just remembered that I shot a video on planting onions last year, including tiny little onion starts. Here's a link to it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PXYNV4aQ4eU.html.

@legauxmc 5 месяцев назад

Great idea, simple but didn’t think of placing a board underneath to raise the tray. Thanks 😊

@joycearthur5244 5 месяцев назад

Good advice on cutting the onions, need to go cut mine. I’ve seen people do that but no explanation as to why.

@tatianamaria1 5 месяцев назад

Interesting onion haircut info, thanks!

@PLD244 5 месяцев назад

Great information! Thank you!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm glad it was helpful!

@dustyflats3832 5 месяцев назад

I laughed when you said, No! To starting tomatoes and peppers in cold zones now. Everyone gets excited to start when they see all these RU-vid channels from all over growing already. I’m starting about a week later than normal to avoid up potting and over grown plants by transplanting time. Usually started last week of March, but going into April. Warm season crops will do nothing in cold soils. Only if I had a low tunnel or high tunnel would I start sooner. There are also varieties that are for colder weather and probably could be started sooner. Onions I tried in flats-no good as the soil surface molded, a few to a cell they get thicker necks if you want State Fair sized onions. I found planting in pots that are 3-4” deep to be good enmass. I had to give them 5 haircuts last year😅. The onion seed doesn’t keep long so might as well pot them up. They did well in winter sow also. Had a lot of onions of normal 2-4” size bulbs no matter how they were started. We just had our First ever February tornado, waiting to hear what damage it caused. Wasn’t too far away from us and no injuries so far, so that’s good, but damage to roofs, trees and power lines were mentioned. WI, Z5a.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Yikes, I'm glad you're OK.

@dustyflats3832 5 месяцев назад

@@SusansInTheGarden just viewing news coverage right now. It will take another day to get total info about strength and how many tornadoes. They are showing a lot of heavy damage to farms. It sucked the water of someone’s pool 😬. We were lucky as it skirted just south east of us.

@roserizzo3094 5 месяцев назад

I start in March for tomatoes in 7a. I used to start much earlier, too. Nice video!

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. It's hard to be patient about planting tomatoes but totally worth it!

@RC-pf2qi 5 месяцев назад

Another resource is your local County Extension Office. Ours is located in our courthouse.

@michelinebercier-lariviere3095 5 месяцев назад

I live in Canada. I don’t find it useful to count back from the last frost date since it is not the time these warm weather lovers go into the garden. I plant my tomatoes about 8 weeks before the average date I plant them in the garden, that is when the evening low temperatures are 10 degrees Celsius or above in the forecast for the 2 following weeks.

@alligator_pie 5 месяцев назад

Me too, Z3, and I agree. Also, tomatoes hate “cold feet” so it’s also about soil temps, it can take a long time for the chill to come out of the ground.

@saule8764 5 месяцев назад

❤️🌷

@patbryan602 5 месяцев назад

The information you provide is so useful! I've only recently discovered you but have already upped my game. I ordered the bottle cap sprinkler and it is great. I started Maverick geraniums about 10 days ago and am just seeing first true leaves and wondering when do I start fertilizing them....and then there you were right on cue! I am growing vegetables for the first time this year (zone 5b) and really appreciate your guidance. Thanks so much.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, Pat. That is so nice to hear. I've got so many topics I want to cover! Next week will be fertilizers, and the following week will be soil care and composting... if all goes according to plan. Take care.

@psbchannel2012 5 месяцев назад

@@SusansInTheGarden thank you for all the wonderful tips and tricks you tell thru your videos, really appreciate them all. I am not a newbie gardener per se but i like to try something new every year so in a way I am a newbie for that plant/ vegetable for that year. LOL I would like to know the fish fertilizer : water proportions for the first time fertilizing the seedlings and does it change with the type of seedlings? Also how often do you fertilize the new tiny seedlings and for how long. Thank you in advance. I am in zone 6b now 7a

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

@@psbchannel2012 I use half as much of the liquid fertilizer as the label recommends (but I use the recommended amount of water) for young seedlings. I feed them about every 10 days to 2 weeks. Same formulation for all seedlings. When they're ready to transplant into the garden, you can use full-strength fertilizer (as recommended on the label). I'll go into more detail in my next video. And thanks so much for your nice comments. They are much appreciated!

@psbchannel2012 5 месяцев назад

@@SusansInTheGarden okay great thank you Looking forward tot he next video 😊

@GlendaClark-ns7cm 5 месяцев назад

Love all the great information. I have the hardest time getting onion seeds to germinate. How does he do it with such great germination rate? Does he stratify first, use heat mat, etc. Would love some help with this. Thank you for great videos

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Glenda. Bill doesn't do anything special except to use new seeds each year. That's because onion seeds typically only have high germination rates in the first year. Thanks so much for your nice comments.

@GlendaClark-ns7cm 5 месяцев назад

@SusansInTheGarden Thank you Susan. I bought new onion seeds today and will try them brand new. Also, you have so much knowledge that I ordered both of your books. I am 71 and been gardening off and on for 50 years. I still have a lot to learn. Can't wait to read them.

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

@@GlendaClark-ns7cm That's wonderful! Thanks so much, Glenda.

@bonniep.5165 5 месяцев назад

You’re making sure the tomatoes are watered but are they on a heat mat & do they still have lights? Thank You

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Bonnie. I'm not growing tomatoes yet but tomatoes and peppers do benefit from a heat mat, just until the seeds have germinated. I find it's easiest to turn on the grow lights on as soon as I plant the seeds because some seeds germinate really quickly and that way, they've got light right away.

@nicholasdemarest4254 5 месяцев назад

What temperature or should you plant out cabbage?

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Nicholas. If you have started cabbage seedlings indoors first, the outdoor soil temperature should be about 60 degrees F. before you transplant them out into the garden.

@legauxmc 5 месяцев назад

Can you provide a link to the website?

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

Sure. Here's a link to my website: www.susansinthegarden.com/. And here is a link to the seed-starting tool I mentioned in the video: www.susansinthegarden.com/guides/seed-starting-when-to-plant-vegetables-for-all-zones/. All of the resources from my website that I've mentioned in these 3 seed-starting videos are under the "Guides" menu. Cheers.

@michelinebercier-lariviere3095 5 месяцев назад

For more detailed info for growing onions from seeds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vnBsmlqqQEA.htmlsi=U4hOYxer1FcbwI_o

@nancyrasmussen2016 4 месяца назад

Question to you, how long should a person wait to replant seeds if they don't come up? I planted Walla Walla onions by seed on the 2/27 and still haven't come up yet. I feel that they should've come up by now. Others have popped out. I`he watered daily. Thank you, Nancy from nebraska

@SusansInTheGarden 4 месяца назад

Hi, Nancy. I'm assuming that you planted them indoors? Under those conditions, they should come up within 2 weeks. If they're planted outdoors, I'm really not sure, esp. depending upon your outdoor temperatures. But another factor is how old the seeds are. Unfortunately, onion seeds have the low viability of all veggie seeds (1 year... meaning you'll get your best germination rate if those seeds are planted within their first year). Let me know if this helps. Take care.

@nancyrasmussen2016 4 месяца назад

I planted indoors. I just bought the seeds online thru ferry-morse this year put says sell by 12/24. I`ve planted onion seeds before and they were so fast to come up so was surprised by these not coming up. I did plant more, there on heat mat, with saran wrap on top with grow light on as well. If this second batch doesn't come up I'm wondering if they gave me bad seeds. We'll see. Thanks for input. Nancy from Nebraska

@SusansInTheGarden 4 месяца назад

@@nancyrasmussen2016 Thank you for clarifying a few things. The heat mat is unnecessary for starting onions. Maybe they don't like all of that heat? Just a thought. I think I would turn off the heat mat and give them a few more days.

@Mary.inthegarden 5 месяцев назад

Wow! Thank you for the chart, it is very useful and appears to be accurate

@SusansInTheGarden 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad it was helpful, Mary.