It's Time to Start Your Garden! 9 Seeds to Plant Indoors in January

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Wow! Can you believe it is time to start your 2024 garden already! Most important on this list are the onions, leeks, and chives. Be sure to get them planted right away!! If you want to join the waitlist for our Seed Starting Workshop here's the link: ourstoneyacres.com/seed-starting-challenge

[@libertylover4575]

RICK - I’m brand-new to gardening because we just sold our city home and bought a rural acreage property. Now I’m ready to start learning about growing food, but I’m a baby beginner and I know nothing yet. Please tell me how to figure out what zone I’m in, and what is a “frost date“???

[@rogerrathbun444]

I live in Coldwater Michigan. I always plant onions, peas potatoes and my root crops on Good Friday. And the rest of my plants go in around Mothers day

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Sounds like we are pretty similar, most of our cool season crops go in around April 1st and warm season about mid May

[@Minnehaha64]

I hope you get plenty of students for this workshop! I was in it last year, I've been gardening since I was 22 (I'm now 59) and thus workshop taught me so many things I never knew! I had never learned how to start seeds. I took suoer-detailed notes last year, so I feel like I can do it, but of course, your videos, like today's, encourage me and remind me what I'm doing. I recommend these courses to everyone!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Thanks Sheri!!

[@PorchGardeningWithPassion]

Great tips! 👊🏻💥👊🏻

[@PatriciaCampbell-yj5pi]

Hi, I am glad I found your video! I am a new gardener and I am in Zone 6a/b and I started way too late last year. Thank you for the information!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brittanyfinch8597]

Thank you so much for this!!

[@michellehayashi576]

I am so grateful for your channel and all your relevant and concise information! Thanks bunches! 🌻

[@leslieeddy9097]

Dry cleaner bags are a little heavier than plastic wrap and does't stick to itself. I've been using the same ones cut open and flattened out for years on my seedlings in my sun room.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Great idea! I've found that after only a couple of days of use the plastic wrap gets enough dirt on it that it quits sticking.

[@buckeyegardener]

Great video!! I'm Going to be starting my onion seeds here in zone 6b in a couple weeks. Can't wait for seed starting season!!!!!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Good luck!

[@budgetgardeningvita]

Thanks for this list. I'm in zone 5b so this is very helpful! 🌻

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

You're so welcome!

[@eigleenalegri2664]

Thank you for your post. It is very helpful for expanding possibilities for growing more than in Summer

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Fiene-Nix]

I'm in Dallas-Fort Worth area zone 8A. The back & forth temps are killing me. I don't even think my pansies & nasturtiums will survive the frigid temps but still wrapped. Thanks for the great video. Only purple basil inside for now.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Good Luck! We've been having a strange winter too.

[@inthehouse9062]

So Useful Thanks

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

You're welcome!

[@treymurphy6398]

That is my frost date time!

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

We can't forget asparagus to start. They go out in a nursery bed in spring (grows there for additional year or so before planting in permanent location).

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Great reminder

[@mjb9176]

Happy to find your guidance again this year. I took your course last year and learned a lot from you, even though I am a lifelong gardener. I have 6 seed trays going with different hardening off target dates. Do you ever plant beets outside as soon as soil can be worked or do you sow them indoors for transplanting?

[@aprendeingles2day]

💥This video is great💥

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Thanks

[@kurdapyarose8461]

thank you for the info

[@joannc147]

Beautiful presentation! Just what I needed to watch today. I appreciate your list - that way I knew what seeds you were going to talk about. As I understand it, growing onions from seed offers much larger onions than growing from “onion starts”. Don’t know the science behind that claim. I’ve used “starts” and successfully grew rather small veg. So…YES on growing onions from seed! 👍🏻

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I've found pretty similar results from starts I grew myself from seed and starts that I bought. The big difference comes between starts and sets.

[@lynn6799]

The general rule of thumb in my area for planting outside is mothers day in may. However, there is the occasional exception.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

The same rule applies in our area, but that is for warm season crops. Everything that I was talking about in this video are cool season crops and they should be planted before your last frost date as they need the cooler temperatures.

[@pamelapruett7833]

Our seeds should be planted by February 9th. According to your video, perhaps mid december or getting of the year would be a better time but I'll check into it

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Good luck!

[@shorty8256]

Such an exciting video...l just planted a week ago indoors my onions, lettuce, Kale and Swiss Chard...my last frost was April 22nd in NY is there anything else l should be growing? Don't want to miss anything time is an essence! Can't wait for the workshop!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

For now I think the list I gave is good. You will really get busy in February.

[@blueduchessvi]

An informative and well put-together video. Thank you for sharing. Zone 7b here in central Alabama. I noticed that you list kale but not the other brassicas like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and mustard. Those are my favorites for early spring planting and growing over the winter. It's fun to go out and harvest fresh mustard for our first meal of the new year. I'm also a bit confused that you consider parsley "tender" - my parsley grows as a perennial in my outdoor garden. The only time I need to cover it is on the very rare times we get snow or ice. Maybe because it's an established plant and not a small transplant or seedling.

[@Fiene-Nix]

I'm in zone 8A, Texas. The temps are as crazy as the driving. Pomegranate & Meyer lemon trees wrapped outside on patio. Succulents & only purple basil inside. Good luck with gardening 🌱🌱

[@shirleyemerson]

I'm in zone 7B, Northwest Alabama. I have been trying to figure out when to start onion seedlings, and when to plant them in ground. The more I hear about planting onions the more I am confused. Can you tell me when to start seedlings and when to plant them? I would appreciate it so much. My average first frost date is Oct. 29 --Nov.15 Average last frost date March 22 --April 3rd.

[@freakygardener8033]

I'm considering trying onions this year, but nobody mentions how deep they grow! I do all of my "gardening" in containers, so if they are quite shallow, a bucket would be a waste, but if they go deep, I can't use something shallow!

[@hobbyguy3254]

Hey Rick, I'm gathering my supplies to start growing seeds inside this year for transplant. I have a question about lighting. I have shelves 2'by4' to hang the lights from. My lights are 5000 Lumen led shop lights. Should I use two lights for each shelf or just one.? Would using both give me too many Lumens?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

With shop lights you will want to use 2 per shelf, just to give you full coverage of the shelf. Without 2 lights the plants on the outside of your trays will become leggy.

[@hobbyguy3254]

Thanks sir @@StoneyAcresGardening

[@hobbyguy3254]

What would be a good distance to set the lights at for the seedlings?

[@hannahedwards2399]

1-2 inches from soil then as they start...move them up 1-2 inches from top of seedling

[@cbak1819]

Oh yah! Sowing Seeds.. 🎉 Have you ever soil blocked onion seeds?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

No not onions. I've tried soil blocks before and wasn't a fan.

[@countryfun3910]

Do you do woodworking, too? I couldn't help but notice the tools.😅 Seems like that skill definitely goes with gardening. Thanks for all the gardening videos!

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Yes I do a little, but my son is more skilled than I am, we share the workspace.

[@countryfun3910]

@@StoneyAcresGardening I find most skilled gardeners have that know how or someone close that does. 😅❤

[@ji5657]

Is there any other option to use for seedlings without any plastic? Thinking about BPA/BPS. Any recommendations? Also, I am in zone 8B

[@wrightsfarm5683]

Can I do this and plant outside into containers. Then cover the container if it gets too chilly.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

That depends on where you live. If you are in Zone 7 or below it's still a little too cold outside to be planting in containers.

[@brg2743]

How do onions do winter sowing in milkjugs?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I'm not sure, I've never tried that. Does anyone else have some experience with this??

[@hannahedwards2399]

Nope but trying in zone 6 now

[@ceepark114]

How about celery? I start my celery seeds same time as onions.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I usually don't start my celery until February. But maybe i should try it earlier this year.

[@inthehouse9062]

Question ..Can you recommend a pump sprayer ? I bought a vivosun it failed they don"t make replacement parts.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I'm sorry I can't. I've never owned a pump sprayer.

[@henniemyburgh6873]

January where and what season.. asking from Spain🌿

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

We are in the United States in Utah. Most of my videos are meant for North America

[@henniemyburgh6873]

Middle of winter here but warming quickly..Just there’s a lot of videos on KZbin and presenters in general are not upfront season orientated🙏

[@Paravetje]

This is interesting, I looked up your zipcode on the USDA hardiness map, and it came back as zone 7a. I'm in Sweden in zone 7a, but my last frost should be around april 15th according to a website I found.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Frost dates do not correlate with Zones. Our last frost date isn't until mid-May. Also garden zones between countries do not always correlate.

[@reneefye9831]

So question I saw a video of yours that mentioned 4000 Lumen's for seed starting. Is it 4k lumens or beightness?

[@SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

How do you get from Jan to April in 8 weeks?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

It's 8 to 10 weeks - January 15th to April 1st would by 10 weeks. January 31st to April 1st would be 8 weeks.

[@SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

@@StoneyAcresGardening Thank you for sharing

[@mollypitcher9380]

THANK YOU! But no flowers?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

I'm not much of a flower guy. My experience is with edible plants.

[@Fiene-Nix]

​@@StoneyAcresGardeningQuestion: I've seen conflicting info for nasturtiums. Have you ever eaten them or can you? (I really dislike using Google bc of this reason.)

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

So the onion tips / green stalks won't freeze? And kill the onion?

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

Nope, onions are pretty hardy, I've had them snowed on and they have been just fine.

[@caydancebloom]

I'm sorry... I'm feeling really dumb here... you said onions have to be started 8-10 weeks prior to transplanting them.... that is 2 to 2 1/2 months. If you want onions transplanted into the garden beginning of April .... Jan first to April first is 4 months... twice as long as what you said.... My brain hurts from mathing. please help.

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

No, January 1st to April 1st is only 3 months - 12 weeks. So if you wanted to plant out on April 1st you would plant on January 15th, that is 10 weeks from April 1st.

[@caydancebloom]

oh I get what I did.... I was so tired! lol. Thank you for your patience!@@StoneyAcresGardening

[@jujubee7351]

It’s to early and to cold to start anything, unless you have a green house

[@StoneyAcresGardening]

This is indoor starting under lights of cool season crops.

[@chrisguybob]

Just as a reminder. Seeds are sown not planted.

[@reneefye9831]

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