First time grower, easiest way to start. Can I avoid the seed process?
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You can buy the plants. They sell small or young plants. Some people take clones of a mother plant and raise that. That is simply a start off a larger plant. Think of it as a photo copy of the mother plant.
To grow Romain cut the bottom off a head about 3 inches place in water about a week then plant in dirt the same thing with celery take a pepper cut in half put dirt in it and plant in dirt then water it will grow leave seeds inside .to grow a onion or potato cut the roots off or eyes plant in dirt then water . Water all of them like 3 times a week unless dry then more
Lots of great tips from other Hometalkers. To many to list individually.
https://www.hometalk.com/search/posts?filter=start%20seeds
You can buy starters already growing, and usually hardened, but probably not this early for the hardened ones. But some things are more fun to start from seed. Are you talking flowers, trees, vegetables?
Diana is correct. It is too early to put them out yet. Young plants can't tolerate temp changes like older plants. We put our grow light up a few weeks ago in order to give the little starts a head start. In a few weeks like will start to put them outside for a few hours during the day to harden them of (get them used to being outdoors).
When you buy potted starts, look at how strong their stems are and look for fewer plants in one starter pot.
You could buy little plants, but might be too cold to put them outdoors yet
You can buy the starts at the nursery. I would start with those and plant directly in the soil
It depends on what you want to grow. You can go with plants for many things. The most important thing would be to make sure you have good soil and proper drainage for the item(s) you are wanting to grow.
Ok...this is the first question I have posted even though I am obsessed with this site. I didnt know I could follow up. Live n learn. I live in central Fl. I want to grow tomatoes. I hear it is tricky. Looking to you geniuses out there. Now that I have time, why not!!
Thanks for the other tips as well. You gave me great ideas.
Hi Kelly - This is the ultimate and super easy step-by-step guide to determine your plant hardiness zone, your frost dates, and also when to start planting indoors and outdoors. Plus lots of great resources. Hope this helps and happy gardening! Hugs, Holly
https://pinkfortitude.com/sow-and-plant-seeds/
PS - if you want a cute and easy DIY to get your seeds started, we start our seeds in egg cartons. You can get the tutorial here --> https://pinkfortitude.com/start-seeds-in-an-egg-carton/
You could go to a nursery in your area and see if they have tomato plants for sale. If so it probably means they will grow there. Ask if it is time to set them out and get any other advice they can give you on growing them in your area. You might want to get several different varieties, some that produce fruit earlier, others that produce longer, and a cherry tomato, etc
Love tomatoes! Here are some sites specific to Central Florida for growing tomatoes.
https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/edibles/vegetables/tomatoes.html
https://www.flgardening.com/growing-tomatoes-in-central-florida/
http://lakerlutznews.com/lln/?p=38562
Have fun and happy gardening!!! 🍅🍅🍅