Starting The First Seeds Of My 2025 Garden Season!

[@Bevo619]

Lost my office building in the fires. Trying to focus on my gardening to prevent stress. All of these videos help. Thank you Jacques

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Sorry for the loss, its truly freighting and sad to see how rapidly these fire swept through, I am glad you didn't lose your home. Fortunately gardening always helps give us goals to work towards!

[@sewingbreesinger4831]

✌️💗🌈🐢🌱🌻🐝🦋

[@Bevo619]

@@jacquesinthegarden thanks Jacques. Happy gardening. Good luck on this next season!

[@lisafahrner9917]

Sorry for your loss.

[@oyindamolaoloba3689]

My heart goes to you 🌹

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

Gosh, I love seed-starting so much! Almost as much as seed-buying 🤔 Completely separate hobbies 😂🌱🤘

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Haha truly, my seed buying hobby is getting out of hand....running out of options to eliminate!

[@Evanthegirl]

Temptresses! The lot of you!! My beds are all covered in snow!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Hahaha, that must be truly hard to deal with!

[@Evanthegirl]

@ I have a cold frame and I’m like “maybe I can put my peppers and tomatoes in there and they’ll be ok”, but I know they won’t!

[@Godforgiveusall]

Same

[@SinSiricheDu]

Onions seeds will be perfectly happy to get started in cooler temps. I’ve already seeded mine and I’m in CO.

[@Evanthegirl]

@ hey me too! I didn’t have them on my plan for this year, but maybe I can find a spot for them.

[@MahoroSu]

For smaller scale sifting, I use dollar store wire trash basket

[@NorthSpore]

This gets us really excited for the 2025 growing season (:

[@arrekusuchan]

Love the background birds.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

They are OUT and about for sure right now.

[@danieladeutsch1708]

Dear Jacques, that´s so funny, I have just had pickled Alma Paprika for breakfast (yes I am from Eastern Europe, and they are very popular here). Wish you to have a big big big harvest, so you can share it within your community. Best regards from Slovakia. Daniela P.S. We call peppers "paprika"...only the seasoning - we call "pepper" :)

[@HopefulHarvestMission]

Love all the information that is SO easy to understand! I have been gardening for over 30 years but I have learned so much from you and Kevin. Please keep it up!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad it is helpful, so cool to be learning with you after 30 years of gardening!

[@HopefulHarvestMission]

@ Looking forward to growing with y’all as I start building my new homestead garden!

[@tylermead7272]

Yall should make a video about how create an aesthetically pleasing garden. My garden is well-balanced and productive, but It's ugly. I would like to see how y'all created such a beautiful space.

[@ceydaer]

In Turkey we have the same peppers you got from Bulgaria. Kapia is my favourite, it just takes a long time to turn red (not until August in my garden) so don't be discouraged, they are worth the wait.

[@oksanaborovyk3477]

I Love the Padron peppers! In Galicia where they come from, they're actually harvested early (2-3 inches long) and they are quite sweet and not spicy! traditionally they're lightly scorched and served with coarse salt and olive oil, I strongly recommend you try them this way! Love all the peppers you're growing!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That sounds absolutely delicious! I actually grew them last year and let them go FULL red and they were SUPER spicy, way more than I had expected!

[@courtneycullen6289]

I just had 6-8 inches of snow melt only to reveal a beautiful grouping of perpetual spinach. Truly perpetual.

[@carenmcfarland7034]

Having been going through breast cancer treatment the last few months I greatly appreciate seeing this video! I’m itching to get back to gardening and you truly motivated me!🎉

[@rachellemazar7374]

What a great selection of plants, I’ll be very curious about your sweet pepper trial.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I am actually excited to see how that one shakes up!

[@LittleKi1]

I love the cabbage and cauliflower flex in the background. Just sowing seeds in front of banging brassicas.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

They are for sure looking REALLY good right now!

[@ahnanda68]

My mom always had straw flowers those little apricot peach 🍑 pinky ones are so pretty!! You pick some really nice flowers and herbs it's going to be beautiful 🤩

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I a very excited to see all of these fill out!

[@originalwoolydragon8387]

Look for a grease pencil. Contractors use them, even in the rain. So far, they work the best for legible labels.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I find them really hard to write in small lettering so I've been leaning on the graphite for now!

[@charlespartak2435]

Milwaukee contractor grade sharpies . Water proof, lasts a whole season..

[@1-Fitgirl]

Sifting the bark out of the soil....genius! Thanks!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It makes a huge difference!

[@carissalizotte8977]

The birds singing in the background is really making my soul happy 🥰

[@wcoastgardener209]

I use the wood sticks and pencil also. Very simple, easy and you can compost it.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That is the beauty of it! I want to get away from the disposable plastic as much as I can!

[@CraigBuccalo]

Nice job, you covered a lot of information. Your garden looks great. I looked at mine garden today and saw snow. I am jealous of your garden.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Thank you! I try to make sure I am actually transferring some information to everyone!

[@OakKnobFarm]

I've grown Moskvich for several years. They're great, I think you'll like them

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I am excited to try it out, I have been meaning to for a while!

[@VelvetSuitStudios]

I wanted to try that one last year, but they were sold out. Tried "Defiant" instead and was not disappointed, very prolific!

[@helenmcclellan452]

Great seed selection. I started strawflowers for the first time this year. I grew the Cosmos you selected last year in our greenhouse over the winter, it was amazing! Yes, please do more on this seed starting series (heat nat, growlights, fertilizing, watering schedule, germination update, up-potting, etc.).

[@heatherfisk9670]

I love that you always look for Bulgarian seeds to grow due to your heritage. My heritage is mostly German so I find myself gravitating toward seeds from there.

[@lighthouseconservatory]

would definitely love to see your indoor set up! I'm a northern grower with no greenhouse capabilities in our apartment set up, so a sunny windowsill is my seed starting option :)

[@bethanyr8482]

You should consider investing in a grow light, at least! I tried the windowsill last year, and it was not enough light for the seedlings - they stretched out trying to reach the light and were suffering until I bought a grow light

[@lighthouseconservatory]

@bethanyr8482 yes! invested in one last season :)

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I'm starting my peppers in January from now on: they did so well last year! Peppers and snap peas are the only seeds I've planted so far...tomatoes in my cool 10a garden have to wait for next month at the earliest. I have found the Glacier mediocre but now I want to try the Moskovitch! 💚

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Exactly! Also, I agree that glacier isn't the most exciting but Early Girl has always been a winner for me!

[@themrmanguy7912]

This was a very nice and easy video. I enjoyed the birds in the background. The South East coast has been a little chilly lately.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

The birds have really put on a show earlier in the year now!

[@tinad6812]

I loved your seed picks. I’ll be growing some of those. I’m looking forward to seeing your garden through the year. I liked your seed holder. I might make some of those. It looks simple. Pretty bird sounds in the background. Thank you. 😊

[@deires77]

It is my first full growing season in a subtropical climate. I am so exited...I've already started with seeds (tomato, peppers, melons....) and some potatoes are already in the ground. Still some weeks to go to find out if I'll be successful with sweet potato slips BUT I already had two strawberries from plants I planted last year It's such a change from my slug infested garden up in Ireland to my container rooftop garden in Spain. Since our growing zones are now quite similar I'll be sure to follow 🌱💚

[@sheliaheverin8822]

You should have your parents on one of your videos one day. I love to watch you plant seeds and grow. I saved a cottage cheese and yogurt container to cut down into homemade garden tags.

[@moh_maya_forever]

Indoor seed starting video - Yes please!

[@pedromunoz4468]

Lets go, I been waiting for this one, let me get my stuff 😅

[@Melissaharlowvo]

Me too!!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

It is seed time for sure!

[@Travidavi]

Good job today Jacque.

[@tholan1313]

I like to use the bottom of another seed cell to compact the soil.

[@normarosado5697]

Wow Jacques this video was so informative. I have planted last season garlic chives looking to see if they come back. But I definately took notes. Yes would love to see more videos of seedlings growing in the shed

[@lyndelgado6138]

Early girls are always in my garden.They are my most favorite flavor and best-producing indeterminate tomato. Yes please, S show us what you do to make your plants successfully grow in the shed. Thx!

[@rstollenwerk]

you jinxed it whenever you recorded this! I was under evac warning with the border 2 fire last week! Thank god the rain came when it did!

[@tatipalooza]

Love the vid, just placed an order for a ton of seeds, I’m excited!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Such an exciting time of year!

[@michellecolledge2355]

Great video. I never know what flowers to surface grow and which not to. My seed packets all state to bury yet I know, from your videos, that some cannot be buried. A video on indoor seed starting is much anticipated. Thank you so much.

[@atomicbd100]

Love your videos, I bought some birdies bed and got a butt load of seed cells as an extra and so excited to use them :)

[@villanella]

hungarian here! kalocsai pepper is a spice pepper here. actually one of the most famous one. you have to dry in and grind it to powder, we use to smoke it too, it is just wonderful. also, almapaprika (also hungarian, means apple pepper) is not look like that. it is rounded and we use to stuff it with cabbage and pickle it that way.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Oh that is amazing, thank you for sharing. I was looking forward to the Kalocsai as a spicy option to make chili flakes and hot paprika! Looking forward to the alma as I really love stuffing peppers!

[@roonwit7307]

I grew King Arthur bells for the first time last year. Wow! Huge, productive, and amazing flavor. Carmen corno del toros did really well too. Both were grown in 5gal grow bags here in TN. I’ll move up to at least 10 gal this year.

[@orionishi6737]

His while gsrden is full already and lush. My little cauliflower plant still doesnt even have a head. My kale stalled out. But I think I may have real carrots.

[@jenniferpathak118]

Would love a video on seed starting indoors. I just tried starting lettuces and spinach in my garage with grow lights close to them. They all were extremely leggy and I need to start over. I’m in San Diego as well.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I will try and put something together!

[@CoreyFernandes-v5w]

Let’s gooo I already started mine all botanical interest I got (tomatoes green zebra , sun golds, pineapple, cream sausage, sweet100s, yellow pear,pork chop, (peppers, numex yellow jalapeños/ Joe e Parker, yellow banana early jalapeños, shishitos, jewel amethyst eggplant, yellow mountain watermelon, red Kuri squash, and I have so much more I want to grow but that’s what I have started so far hopefully I can make some videos of it some day love you Jacque and Kevin 🤗

[@blankspace8884]

Please do! I subscribed

[@CoreyFernandes-v5w]

@@blankspace8884 ohh bet you made me want to make some videos I’ll make one real quick just for you 😆

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That is a great list of options! Very excited to see how your garden does!

[@blankspace8884]

Jacques please tell Kevin that I’m his 3rd biggest fan!

[@blankspace8884]

@@CoreyFernandes-v5w I loved the video! I always thought those grow tents were cool

[@Braddy_Daddy]

This video came out right as I was about to start some seeds 😎 Great listen!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Gardeningchristine]

I put 10ish seeds in the 6 cell of celery last year, I thought it’s so small, it must have terrible germination, I ended up with 70 celery plants.🌱

[@bsgenius22]

I love these seed starting videos! I saw the magnolia snap pea at the nursery the other day and just knew I had to grow them! Such an exciting time of year.

[@gleamingrace]

I’m growing a bunch of sweet peppers too, Alma is one, and the red and yellow Corno Di Toro are two others. I’m testing several bells, to see which I like better. I chose Early Cascade as my early tomato, and it was the last to germinate and looks the weakest. 😂

[@zachsamons5005]

Love the videos! I've massively downgraded my hot peppers this year in favour of sweets, going from 75% hot to 75% sweet. We are also cutting down from 24 varieties to hopefully under a dozen after a few years of trying dozens of varieties in Northern Canada to pin down what works best here. Combi Peppers are fantastic as stuffing peppers or even just on charcuterie board, less bulky than bells. We've swapped Shishitos out for Jimmy Nardellos this year as the family massively preferred them. Habanadas were the big star last year, we love them roasted and used for sauces.

[@matrisoxide]

Hi Jacques, I grew a lemon drop last year here in SD and it grew 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide. Beware

[@Powerfamilygarden]

Thank you for these pepper suggestions. I love sweet peppers and have been wanting to start different varieties

[@buttonenfuego]

Worm castings for the win💪

[@jacquesinthegarden]

They never hurt to add!

[@karenfreeman8331]

Usually I just do flowers and shrubs. This year I'm going to attempt veggies. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I can't wait to start my seeds. I'm in a zone 6b. I'm loving the sounds of the birds in your video. Won't be hearing that for a few months yet.

[@sharonknorr1106]

A nice dill recipe for this summer: Soften some cream cheese and mix in a lot of finely chopped dill, chop up a couple of hard-boiled eggs, finely chop some red onion, crumble up some smoked salmon (we smoke our own on a Traeger); toast up some crostini, put down a layer of the cream cheese, followed by a bit of all the other stuff in whatever proportions you like, we also add some capers from a jar, and enjoy - so nice out on the patio with a glass of wine on a summer evening. Great appetizer as well. Also stick dill in my summer potato salads and egg dishes. Love the smell and taste of dill, but I do not like pickles - go figure. Another bonus is that swallowtail butterfly caterpillars love dill as well and I always love to see them munching away. Dill also readily self-seeds if you let it go that far, so I hardly ever have to sow it anymore, it just pops up all over in the spring, in fact, I have to pull a lot of the seedlings out or it totally takes over the garden, but that's easy to do and dill seedlings are easy to identify. I do have a packet of Tetra and am going to start some and see if it is more productive than the kind I have already self-seeding, don't actually even know what the variety is anymore.

[@susanfoy4794]

The sugar magnolia snap peas from Botanical Interest are my favorite. They germinate well, produce these gorgeous purple flowers and taste very good. Some of my pods are all purple, some are all green, but most are varigated. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

[@Talula72]

I love seeing the less common and ethnic varities you grow and share with us. Also, I love the Tetra Dill.

[@alliehilton]

I’d love to see your seeds starting setup in your shed with the lights and just a regular maintenance day when you water!

[@st2778]

Doing Straw Flowers this year.. thanks for the update

[@catherinedonley2781]

Definitely getting the urge to start gardening here in zone 6-just waiting for the snow to melt! Seriously though, this is great time to work on garden-construction projects😁

[@RebeccaWhite30]

Waiting for my poppies I just ordered from you! Going to try starting indoors this time.

[@MayWay.Gardening]

So solid , ❤love to see your garden !!

[@crocketp]

I’ve started onions , shallots, rosemary, celery and lisianthus seeds so far

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That is a great start! I have always heard about how hard lisianthus seeds are to start.

[@crocketp]

@@jacquesinthegarden ive got one sprout already. I hope the rest sprout 😂

[@ciachef69]

Would love to see an indoor seed starting video, especially utilizing the Epic heat mat and light system!

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

In my area, we had snow last week and by early May.. it's generally in the 90s, This week, the temperature span is mid 30s to 80.. sadly, the bugs are fine with it. My favorite peppers last year were the heatless habs.. roulette heatless habs.. tasty. I'm starting all but direct sew seeds in glass kitchen containers on paper towels.. that way I know I'm not wasting spots for un-germinated seeds I might even do it with the pole beans. I'm over bush beans.. all the bending. One of the new - to - me flowers that I'm trying this year is pyrethrum daisies.. any insect help I can get from plants,.... I'm in. I had purple tansy seeds a couple years ago... I'm only finding the yellow ones now.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I love the heatless habaneros, they have such an interesting complex flavor to them. Pole beans are also much easier to see the beans on making harvesting them even better. I have heard about those daisies, never certain on how well it actually works though!

[@gleamingrace]

I’m growing the heatless hab, Habanada, this year.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@ It's the plant they make the repellents from.. I'll be crossing fingers, eyes and toes that they do something.

[@DailyDoseOfAl0ha92]

Aloha from Hawai’i zone 11 🤙🏽

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Aloha and wishing you a great season!

[@courtney2878]

I can’t FREAKING WAIT UNTIL SPRINGGGGG YAYYYYY

[@michellecjackson4956]

Im excited to grow Ajvarsky pepper and Nadapeno pepper. New to me, already up but yes, they do grow slowly.

[@charlespartak2435]

When filling those smaller celled packs , hand fill like you are but then just take another cellpack and use that to lightly compress the soil ... simpler, faster .

[@luisleija9244]

Gracias por el audio en español, te lo agradezco mucho 🎉

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Very happy to have this option up!

[@brittnystone]

I did bok choy this past fall and they did great. I'm in 7b and just had a frost cloth over them loosely. Harvested in November! I tried doing it in spring before and bugs demolish them

[@rebeccawaddell5114]

I used wooden popsicle sticks as labels and now I have a whole lot of mystery peppers 😅 very biodegradable ✌️🍃 now I'm trying to just write things in a book when I'm interested in keeping track of variety

[@johnnyalegria]

Is there a way to start seeds this early without greenhouse or indoor lights? In zone 10 Lakeside California. Love your channel! Maybe plants that are tolerant to cold? I do not get frost where I live very rare in Lakeside. Get the benefit of less June gloom with no frost.😊

[@earthladyadventures5018]

I would love to see how everything turns out 😊

[@stitchandsoil]

Don't know if you'll see this but, i use the paint markers to write on the sticks and its worked out really well for me

[@squashit339]

I started all my peppers on New Years Day ☺ They all sprouted and were looking good, then I forgot to bring them in one night and it got down to freezing. They were all flopped over laying on their side. I was so mad, but looks like they will be fine. It's been 4 or 5 days and most still look ok. I'm going to start more just in case lol. They were under the pergola, so maybe that kept them from freezing. The hose to the chicken water was frozen that morning. I think I got lucky

[@random-zp2fe]

I am new to gardening. Last october i start my first cut flower from seed and slug ate it then december i start again and plant where they is no direct sunlight and its almost died. Today i am starting the third time🤣 hopefully i can get my flowers this time

[@nothagensodlingar4965]

Hi. Just wanted to wish you a fantastic growing season in 2025. 🌱

[@christiensgarden3325]

Fantastic video thank you for sharing. Love your videos.

[@maxs.3238]

I planted my first seeds of the year today. 3 types of peppers under artificial light for now since I'm about athousand miles farther up north... gotta start early, not everybody has those long summers😂

[@NIKKABLUE]

I use a 50/50 mix of happy frog and ocean forest. It’s working well for me so far.

[@Newgardener9b]

If your seedlings have been grown in a cold frame zone 9b. Do you still need to harden them off before planting out?

[@Gardeningchristine]

I would just in case, because I’ve roasted so many plants for impatience.

[@paulmackinnon6059]

I grew the sugar magnolia up here in Nova Scotia last year and they produced insanely well. In saying that they looked super pretty, but the regular sugar snap still blew them out of the water flavor wise.

[@imiandcole]

I’m in the same zone and felt like I was late, I’m starting seeds this weekend.

[@haleyfarmer7782]

I would be interested in seeing an indoor seed starting video. 😊

[@BritInvLvr]

I’m laughing seeing you sow poppies. I just toss them in my yard and up they come.

[@j.l.emerson592]

Beets. Beets do well in cooler weather. While I like beets quite a lot, I LOVE beet greens. Even though beets are closely related to chard, the greens are far more delicate & tender, & in my opinion, tastier. My family traditionally sautéed beet greens in bacon grease with onions, garlic & only the water that clings to the leaves after you rinse them. Totally yum!

[@tamathamavraides5532]

So cool! Will you grow the Bulgarian veggies and sage seeds to sell us?

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I could try to save seeds and maybe do a giveaway at some point.

[@tamathamavraides5532]

@ that’s awesome!

[@lisafahrner9917]

Great video.

[@BettyBrancato]

Just saying "hi" to help increase traffic. I'm looking forward to sharing in your future endeavors! ❤

[@brandondenton6306]

I love growing but I find it very hard to decide when the plants grow to know what to do with them I have three children and work a lot but love growing

[@jacquesinthegarden]

That is a challenge especially at the start. I would always recommend keeping it simple to start, don't try to solve every issue just choose a few things you know you like and start there!

[@sonyahogan5673]

Poppies fight me every year! Uggh. 😂

[@McIcetay]

Lemon Drop Great pepper. wooo!!!

[@jacquesinthegarden]

I am very excited to try this one out!

[@kristineandrews3726]

Love your videos! I want to know at what point you separate the seedlings into separate pots.

[@wild-radio7373]

I am ABSOLUTELY team sweet pepper this year✊️🤎

[@imdownwithjoshbrown]

cold colerant red bell pepper

[@juniorromero5233]

Just started planting in solo cups but I live in an apartment can you do a video on what grows well indoors by house windows?

[@FalseHell]

Heya Jacques, not sure if you are interested but at 10:04, the paprika is written with an "i" at the end. It's a hungarian paprika coming from the town "Kalocsa" and it's pronounced something like Kha-lo-cha-ee. I'm curious if they'll like your climate or not.

[@yodamasterx1869]

Please do an indoor one

[@Melissaharlowvo]

He is saying by the time you sift it and use it for seed start it’s about $10 a bag but the fox farm bag is not that cheap. It’s just all the ingredients he used added up to about 10 bucks. Pretty sure.

[@jacquesinthegarden]

Yes that is what I was trying to convey!