A Bit Early?

Wow starting already you are crazy but i already knew that. Well im gonna wait a few more weeks at least. I can use the nursery this year so my cats wont knock them down and eat the leaves cause they are locked out of there.

i'm really excited on putting out garden outside our house. since i'm new here in U.S. i did not know when is the right time to plant. so what i did is put some tomato seeds and flower seeds in the pot and hoping that they will grow and ready to move this summer.

Hi Grandpa Bob Actually I start around the same time I plant my flowers which is about Mid June Than that way they have time to grow and it's not cold outside either... However it might but it won't harm them.. I can't say though I've ever planted anything this early because if I did I wouldn't have any place to put them mainly outside... We still have snow on the ground not much but there is some.. I too am always excited when gardening time comes around cause I want a nice garden (never did have one except for one year) lol and nice full bloom flowers.. Those I did get last year! Of course someone had to help me out with them cause they kept dying off the year before I never did figure out why either... they all had plenty of water and so on but I am thinking it was the soil it was in... I think if you had some bigger pots and enough soil you can plant them in those for the time being and place them next to window to get sun that might work... I am not saying I ever did that before but you just never know.. That's really the only thing I can suggest... I hope this helps!

I have no idea, I have never planted before, I sure would like to. How do you plant tomatoes, I can't plant outside yet, there is still a yard full of snow though.

I have had a garden since I was growing up on the farm. I miss those days. I've seen several discussions recently here about gardens, and it is making me want to plant one this year. Thing is I probably wouldn't even have time to water the darn plants. So what all will you have in your garden? If I would plant anything, probably would be beans, tomatoes and cucumbers!

I think they'd do just fine if you planted them in another container. In fact, you can even keep them in a container - that's what container gardening is all about! I've got several started too - cukes and tomatoes are going into a bigger container, and the beans and snap peas should be sprouting any day. Most of my things will be staying in some sort of container, only the beans/peas will be put into the ground up against the house, I think.

We have to wait until mid May around here too. I usually start bean plants right in the ground. They grow so fast, you can get a couple of plantings of beans. They only take 45 days till macurity. I think you can plant the in the flower box and they should be fine. Do you have any big buckets to use. Buy the time you can plant them outside you could have beans on the plants already. You can have an indoor garden of beans, specially if you have a warm sunny place to put them. Fresh green beans are so good.

Well Grandpa I think it would be best for you to transfer the plant to a bigger place. The flower box would be a good start. It would need to have more space to grow on. Having it in a small container would just make the growth of the plant much slower. I have a small garden outside my house but since we dont have any winter here plants just grow there. I have several plants in there...I also have a fruit tree called atis and I have chili...and some other plants.

My dad swore by May 22nd for our area (ohio). He said that the danger of the final frost should be over by then. I cannot wait to plant tomato plants this year. I would think that your bean plants would survive planting them in something larger until you can transplant them outside.

I'm sure that would be fine, but I'm not really the person to ask - I have a black thumb, I can kill any plant in no time flat! We could be putting stuff out now if I wanted to fight with the bugs - not me. We got a big black stink bug in the house last night - the cats enjoyed it.

They'll definitely do well in a larger box - I used to do that all the time with flowers and vegetables. If you don't give them more room, they'll get all leggy on ya. This is especially bad for the flowers, the beans sprawl anyway don't they - I'm imagining a jack and the beanstalk vine growing in your kitchen by planting time!

I start some plants inside too cause I get anxious about having some good plants. I usually just do flowers cause I have red clay here and it is way too hard to dig in, to plant vegetables. But I am much luckier than you, cause I live in S.C. and so our last frost comes earlier than yours. I can usually start putting plants out about now, or the middle of April. I have never started too early for my garden. Sometimes I wish that I had started earlier, so the plants were bigger. I think you should be able to put them in a patio flower box in the house. The only problem as you probably know already, is that it will be hard on the plants to transplant them again. Wonder if you could find something to plant them in, that you could put right into the ground without having to actually transplant them?? I don't know if they make something like that, but maybe.

I don't see why not... As long as the cold doesn't get to them and they get plenty of sun and the roots aren't exposed when transplanting them, I don't see why they would'nt thrive. It seems you're a bit anxious in getting your garden started this year but it's ok, as long as you care for them properly then it should be ok. Good luck!

i guess here in Southern cal you could start stuff in your garden any time you want. I have a small patch of ground around the concreter floor in our patio and am seriously thinking of planting some veggies but it will entail digging out the wild grasses and weeds first which my son will have to do. gardening could keep me out of mischief.lol

I never start anything early here; however, I'm your warm weather friend. Right now, I'm your wet friend, but its still not really cold, as the temperature is still up there. The weeds should really enjoy themselves this week. I have extra time to type, as its to wet outside.

Your as bad as I am, Grandpa Bob. lol Just can't wait to get the garden going even with snow still on the ground. You can go ahead and transplant them in a bigger container. Just make sure you can still move the container is all. I'm going to be planting my beans within the next few days and know they will be ready for the ground by end of this month. I was told by several ppl already that potatoes should be planted on Good Friday but I can't do that as they are already sprouted and we are still getting frost at night. The potato bed is ready to go thou. I made a Lasauna Garden last spring and piled more leaves on it last fall. It's sitting partially under a tree where part of our old driveway used to be so I couldn't plant directly in the ground there. The leaves have slowly rotted over the winter and is now down to half the size it was last fall. Potatoes should be very happy there this year. Who knows? I might get a bug up my butt this weekend and plant the potatoes after all.

Those are some nice looking bean plants. I cannot help you because we don't have any soil where we live, and it gets so hot here I don't think that sort of thing would grow anyway. But the last time I planted beans we lived in the MidWest and just when they were about the size of yours, some evil bug came along and sliced right through the stems. All that was left was the stalks. They looked like they had been cut right off with a razor blade. Does anyone know what kind of insect would do that?

You sound like me, awfully keen to get things in the ground! Your beans plants won't suffer from being repotted into larger pots. Alternativly, how about planting them out but protecting them with fleece for a while? I have aubergines out with fleece over just now and they're doing very well. The beans I planted out direct are coming up sporadically. I think they know that the weather is still a bit dodgy!!