25 Veggies You Can Plant In January RIGHT NOW!

In this video, I share 25 veggies you can plant in January right now! These cold hardy winter crops can survive hard freezes and can feed you and your family from winter into spring! These freeze and frost tolerant winter vegetables should be started from seed now for planting in winter for a spring harvest!

All 25 of these winter veggies can be started from seed in January for a late winter harvest or early to mid spring harvest depending on your climate and the days to maturity of the crop. Some crops are best seed started indoors while others thrive by direct sowing outdoors. I break it all down for you in this video!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Winter Gardening
1:36 Winter Veggies 1-3: Day Sensitive Alliums
5:23 Winter Veggies 4-11: Brassica Transplants
7:24 Winter Veggies 12-19: Direct Sow Greens
9:25 Winter Veggies 20-25: Root Vegetables
13:20 Adventures With Dale

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What’s growing on gardeners it’s Tuesday December 26th and with the holidays behind us and the coldest days of the year still to come it may feel like winter is only just beginning but in reality we are already halfway to Spring and we will be transplanting out our cool weather crops into our Gardens

Before we know it that’s why on today’s video I’m going to share with you 25 different veggies that you can start from seed right now in January so you can have your transplants ready to go out into your garden in late winter early spring if you’re new to the

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8B North Carolina and all of the vegetables that I’m featuring in this video I’m starting from seed right now for transplant out into my garden and for the overwhelming majority of you these generalized dates will work for you however you may need to adjust them a few weeks on either end depending on

How much warmer or cooler your climate is so for those of you for example that are significantly north of me you may need to start your transplants a few weeks behind me so keep that in mind this is a general guideline for your information and of course if you are in

A significantly colder climate than I’m in consider building some of these hoop house structures either over your raised beds or your Earth bed gardens and put some row covers over them they will dramatically assist you in gardening and cooler weather and I’ll drop a link down in the video description that is a

Playlist on How I build these structures in about an hour’s worth of time veggies numbers 1 through three that you should start right now from seed in January are your daylength sensitive aliums and that includes onions shallots and leaks now your onions and shallots in this case

Are extremely sensitive to the length of the days the day length is what triggers proper bulbing I’m including leaks in this list just because they grow the exact same they enjoy the same environmental conditions leaks are not daylength sensitive but that’s why I’m throwing them into the same pot of

Veggies now I will explain to you exactly what I mean by daylength sensitive we primarily grow onions and shallots for the bulbs that is what we want to harvest and the thing that tells the onions and shallots when it’s time to start forming a bulb is actually the

Length of the day and because of that onions are classified into three different types short day intermediate day and long day and as the names indicate a short day onion will begin bulbing with less daylight than a long day onion now during the winter time the

Length of the day really starts to get to us and we know that places like Florida have longer days in the winter than places like Maine however in the summertime it’s actually reversed every location on Earth throughout a calendar year averages exactly 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night however

Places that are closer to the equator have longer winter days but shorter summer days at all averages out whereas places at high latitudes have very long days in the summer and very short days in the winter so for that reason in southern areas of the United States you

Actually grow short day onions in northern areas of the United States you grow long day onions and in the intermediate zones you grow intermediate day onions so because I basically live on the North Carolina South Carolina border I grow primarily short day onions I can sort of get away with an

Intermediate day so make sure that no matter where you live you purchase the correct varieties of onions now shallots are mostly all long day but I still have had pretty good success growing them here in North Carolina the key to getting perfect onions and shallots that bulb properly that develop those nice

Big bulbs is all going to come down to timing because you need the mechanism for bulb growth to trigger right when you’re at the longest days of the year so you have to time out planting your onion transplants so they’re ready to begin bulbing when the days are very

Long and that’s going to be May and June primarily so for that reason now is when I start my onion transplants from seed because I want them ready to go as nice welldeveloped strong onion transplants right around either the last week of February or the first week of March if I

Plant my transplants out too late in the spring they will miss that window and they will start bulbing when the days are no longer at maximum length and I will get inferior bulbing what you see right here are approximately 6 week old leak transplants so these are almost to

The point where I’m about ready to transplant them out into my garden now like I said leaks we Harvest for the greens they don’t bulb so it doesn’t really matter when you plant leaks out into your garden but for your onions and shallots anything you want to harvest

The bulb of the alium you really have to nail the timing these are almost ready to go out into my garden you want them to be about 8 weeks old 8 weeks after germination in order for you to actually plant them out so for that reason when you start your onion seeds around

January 1st they’re generally ready to go out into the garden around March 1st so play with that timing a little bit depending on your unique location but here in North Carolina that is what I’ve generally found works best for me veggies numbers 4 through 11 are brassa transplants and that includes broccoli

Cauliflower cabbage brussel sprouts kale collared greens mustard greens and bok choy or po choy brasas can be very tricky to grow they don’t do well with very hard freezes and can take damage but they can also begin bolting on you when temperatures routinely eclipse the 60° Fahrenheit Mark or warmer so for

That reason it’s best that we grow our brasas from transplant so we can put out fairly large plants into our garden as soon as the weather allows if we plant them from seed directly into our garden a lot of times by the time they finally germinate and take off it will be too

Warm out to harvest them and they will bolt on us before they’re ready so for that reason the easiest way I found to grow them is to start them in the dead of winter as transplants so I have very large transplants ready to go out into

My garden in the middle to late winter and then I put them under some type of hoop house structure like that to keep the hard Frost off of them that way they can flourish and continue to grow and I can Harvest them in the early spring

Before it gets much too warm for them and they flower and go to see it on me not all brasas are created equal for example kale is some of the most cold hearty of any of the plants that I grow into my garden so are the mustard greens

That you see in the rear over there and they are also much less likely to bolt so I find these to be more cold tolerant and heat tolerant which gives me more flexibility but things like broccoli are very sensitive the temperatures I have to grow them underneath Frost cloth to

Keep the hard freezes off of them and we had a very warm Christmas weekend and as you can see because we had a few 70° days the heads are starting to separate on me and some are actually flowering so with broccoli cauliflower and in some ways cabbage you have to be more careful

With them and you have to be very mindful of your temperatures so timing is everything when it comes to Growing these plants veggies numbers 12- 19 are cold hearty greens that love being direct sewn and they include broccoli Rob also known as rapini arugula also known as Rocket spinach Water Crest

Hardy Leaf lettuces rikio cilantro and parsley now similar to the brasas I just told you should be grown from transplant in the previous list these plants are also quite sensitive to warm temperatures and they will bolt but some of them give you the flexibility of allowing to be direct sewed and that is

Because these have a much lower dazed maturity so even if you direct sew these in most climates you will still be able to get a pretty decent Harvest before they bolt on you but that being said things like your parsley or your rikio or your cilantro or Your Spinach that

I’m holding right here all of these things can be sewn as transplants if you wish so you can start these indoors and then transplant them out into the garden when the weather is appropriate however something like broccoli Rob or arugula you should only plant these directly in

The garden they will not grow well as transplants because they’re sewn in rows and you will harvest them kind of like a cutand come again fashion where you’ll just take out some scissors and then you’ll clip them about 2 Ines off the soil line and then you’ll bring them in

And harvest them something like your Hardy lettuce like red leaf lettuces you could either grow some of these as heads or as rows that is up to you the lettuce that you see right here is the new red fire variety that I just showed you the seed packet of these types of lettuces

Can either be sewn as Rose and you can Harvest them like small leaf lettuces or you could space them out more and harvest them as medium-size heads as you can see I planted them pretty close together they were grown directly as seed so I gave myself the flexibility to

Either Harvest them as medium-size heads or as cut and come again because they’re doing so well here in my garden I’ve decided I’m going to let them grow as large as possible into heads but that’s my own personal opinion and you can plant them as you wish depending on what

You desire n veggies 20 through 25 that you should sew right now are your root vegetables like carrots beets radishes turnips rudas and swiss chard the general rule when it comes to Growing root vegetables is you don’t want to plant them as transplants always direct sew them yes it is technically feasible

In some cases to transplant them especially if you use something like a contained Pete pellet but overwhelmingly they will do a lot better being direct zwn if you transplant them you will take High losses and at the very least there will be a lot of transplant shock Roots

Really want to grab hold so if you’re growing a root vegetable always direct sew them now the one exception to this rule is Swiss chard Swiss Chard is not technically a root vegetable but I included them in with the root vegetables because the seed pod is

Almost exactly like that of a beet in fact if you plant Swiss chard and beets next to each other you may not even be able to tell which is which in fact what you see right here is a blend of Swiss chard and beets can you tell the two

Apart because I can’t just looking at it the only reason why I can tell them apart is because I actually labeled the back row here is charred so this is all charred behind here and this is a later planting of charred behind here whereas in the front here these are actually my

Beet plants but just looking at them they’re almost identical and the seeds are almost identical as well then right in front of my beets and chard I have my carrots that are just starting to germinate they took about 2 weeks to germinate thanks to the very chilly

Weather and the short days overall so that’s why it’s so important to get these into the ground earlier than you think because the days are so short and the Sun is so weak this time of year everything takes a little bit longer so it’s generally speaking better to be a

Little bit early than a little bit late as long as your ground is not frozen you can sew most root veggies and if you live at very high latitudes where everything grows very slowly this time of year consider radishes they will germinate in only about 3 to 5 days even

When it’s chilly out and they are some of the fastest growing things in your garden a lot of times they’re ready from seed to harvest and only about 30 days and that right there are 25 different veggies that you can start from seed in January now remember this is not an

Exhaustive list of everything that you can grow this is everything I’m growing right now I didn’t put every single possible thing on this list there are things like green onions or escarole or Endive or dill or a ton of cold hearty Asian greens that I’m really not all

That familiar with this is just something to basically get you started and point you in the right direction also this doesn’t include all zones again I’m in zone 8 so this is appropriate for me and a lot of bordering zones but if you’re in zone 9 or warmer there’s probably a whole bunch

Of warm season crops that you can probably start right now that it’s just too early for me to begin those things and of course if you’re in a really cold Zone you may have to delay a couple of weeks and you may also want to consider building some of these hoop houses over

Your rais beds in order to keep things warm and get a huge jump start on the growing season you can increase your Zone basically several zones when you start building some of these cheap little structures to play with so everybody I sure hope you found this video helpful if you did please make

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Video D Merry Christmas come on we got to give you your presents come on come on come yes y d come on get your gift they’ve been sitting here all morning but Dale won’t take him unless he’s invited yeah what you got over there buddy well he hasn’t lost his touch Brit

He is just as good as ever possibly better than ever and he has a boot because he has a little infection on his nail but he’ll be better I think that’s a fo item momy’s going to help you oh oh what are these what are these

Oo what did get let me see D let me see oh I think that’s a jerky a jerky chicken jerky CER he wants chicken jerky jerky tender here you go Jerky for our jerky yay jerky for our turkey Merry Christmas Dale we have so many more presents to open Dale are you enjoying

Dad’s present it’s the whole Kong family it’s the whole family mommy picked it out and said oh that looks like a DFT you may have saw it Dale come on get another one oh my goodness gracious whoa I don’t think you can take the whole box outside Dale God oh boy what a

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