February marks the start of a new growing season in the low desert of Arizona and other mild winter climates; timing is everything! In this video, I’ll show you what to plant in February, including vegetables, herbs, and flowers you can start now, plus when to plant warm-season crops after the last frost.
🌱 What You’ll Learn:
✔ What to plant all month long
✔ What to plant before & after the last frost
✔ How to prepare your garden beds for spring
✔ Tips for maximizing your short spring season
00:00 Introduction
00:26 When you can pant warm-season crops
00:53 How to prepare your garden beds
02:01 How to check soil temperature
02:47 What to plant all month
03:42 What to plant after the last frost
04:54 Flowers to plant in February
06:11 How to maximize production of your spring garden
06:53 How to prune basil, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants after winter
Related Resources:
🔗 February Planting Guide Blog Post https://growinginthegarden.com/what-to-plant-harvest-february-low-desert-of-arizona/
🔗 How to Start Seeds Indoors https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-start-seeds-indoors-10-steps-for-success/
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Thanks for watching! What are you planting this month? Let me know in the comments! Your likes, comments, and subscriptions help me keep making these videos, so if you found this helpful, be sure to hit like and subscribe. Happy planting!
Good morning from Queen Creek!😊
Good Morning from chandler 😊.
Thank you 🌹
Good Morning thank you for the video from Buckeye!
I don't feed plants,I feed the microbes 💚✌️
Hello from Gilbert! You answered all of my questions in this video! Thanks for taking the time to show each step. Super helpful. I am anxiously waiting for that 3rd week of February! Can't wait to get those tomatoes planted.❤
Good morning from Surprise! I’m growing green onions, spinach, lettuce, lemongrass, rosemary, thyme, dill weed, cherry tomatoes, chamomile, cilantro, Roma tomatoes, mini sweet peppers, and carrots. English Lavender, sweet basil, and jalapeño peppers are growing well indoors for now!
Angela I have the sq ft garden irrigation you do. How long do you keep your irrigation…length of time roughly ? 10-15? Thanks for all you do
Good morning from San Tan Valley! Great information and video !
Your videos are always SO packed with information!! It’s really quite amazing how much you know!
I really appreciate that you type out the info as you’re talking. That way I can screenshot it & refer to it later!!
Corona de Tucson!
I love watching your work but I get Sooo overwhelmed. I live in south buckeye (rainbow valley) with native soil on an acre. I have no idea how to start. I have a greenhouse with little to no knowledge on how to efficiently use it 😢. @GrowingInTheGarden please help!
I tried to keep water my box garden but I don’t think the soil is holding it in. A couple days later and it is dry more than a couple inches down 🙁
Zebra striped tomato plants always seems to grow slowly if at all. Early girls already producing but the biggest problem is the water. No rain and salt in the city water makes the low desert a challenge for anyone. Thanks for your videos. They help to remind me to keep after it!
Hello from NC I will start my indoor planting tomatoes and peppers ?
Good morning frim Glendale az ,cant wait for my seeds to grow, 😂🌻🌷
Your videos are so clear and straightforward! I’m in San Diego 10a and I love seeing how your garden does in the heat. Can’t wait to garden this weekend!
Greetings from Peoria! Containers with lavender, sage, garlic chives (seeds), and yellow pear tomatoes. The rest are flowers, including bare root roses. Thank you for the excellent information (especially the tomatoes)! Spring’s almost here!!!! 💚 🌱 🪴🤎
I would really love to know where you find that type of Lavender. I only saw the Spanish kind here up until now.
I am so glad your channel exists to keep me on track even though I’m in California. We’ve had a dry January until today (1/31/2025) which means our day time temps are in the 50-60s Fahrenheit and our evenings are mostly 40s with a few days in the 30s. It took out my tomatoes and also because I just got tired of hand watering.
Planning to grow Sweet Peas and transplant few container plants from last season into the garden bed.
Thanks again for sharing all of your skills and knowledge.
Hi Angela! I’m in Coolidge and excited about this year. I’m planting carrots, radishes, tomatoes, eggplant, green onions, peppers. Hopefully will add watermelon, cantaloupe, and sunflowers.
Central Phoenix. Our last frost date was the 23rd of January. We're growing lettuce, garlic chives, dill, basil, rosemary, parsley, thyme, cat grass, chamomile, tomatoes, bell peppers, and an absurd amount and variety of flowers.
Hi Angela, I've have been waiting and waiting for your garden tour since your last one and only got a sneak peak of it from another channel. Will you do garden tours again? ❤ ❤
So very helpful having this info at the start of Feb. Thank you!
Love growing all the beautiful things! This year I planted kale and broccoli in my flower beds and interspersed herbs, garlic bulbs, onions and tulips. It is a riot of texture and colors with snapdragons already going strong, tulips sprouting, ranunculus sprouting and gazania holding its own with alyssum and lantana. Sunflowers and hollyhocks are coming up too. Will probably lose a few but that’s gardening and I’ve been enjoying the color in the garden for a few weeks now.
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Heck yes, spring is SHORT!
So much info, if I can follow some of your advice, I will have a better garden than last year. Thank you for making this video!
Very helpful thank you
Saint David 21 March 😢
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