January Garden Guide: What To Start From Seed Or Plant NOW #garden #gardeningtips #vegetablegarden

It’s January and I have a ton of garden ideas for you! In this month’s garden guide, I focus on the vegetable crops and plants that can be started from seed or planted during the month of January and spring garden planning. If your last spring frost date falls in January, February, or March, then you need to start sowing seeds now. Therefore, I share my tips for indoor or outdoor seed sowing. I also cover important garden tasks like pruning fruit trees, techniques for sowing seeds, and recommendations on my favorite cultivars. Spring gardening is my favorite and most abundant season. I share all my tips and tricks as a professional seed and plant nursery so you can apply them at home.

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🧅How to grow onions: https://youtu.be/g35dF8aVDhw
🧄Chive Seeds: http://tinyurl.com/2t4bu7fa
🥔How to grow potatoes: https://youtu.be/AY7NCQM0Cok
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🥕How to grow carrots: https://youtu.be/nsEZCDwjxFw
🥬How to grow kale: https://youtu.be/gxdy-GwoaRQ
🌱How to grow kohlrabi: https://youtu.be/8YyX2RlpTEw
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🍓How to grow strawberries: https://youtu.be/ohEY8gk5Thk
🌱How to grow peas: https://youtu.be/9yEW5aCveXI
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Green Arrow shelling sweet pea seeds: http://tinyurl.com/299t99jf
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🌿How to sow seeds tutorial – my seed sowing setup: https://youtu.be/V1JkF9tdVf4
🍆How to grow eggplants: https://youtu.be/1Rs7pcCP1kM
🍅My heirloom tomato playlist – how to grow from seed, trellis, prune, and comparison between cultivars: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pbzjoxbiF_-OirkFEVBWfCoI9qOhvX1&si=L762mNnthhIiI0Mk
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Hey there fellow Gardener welcome to my January Garden guide which gives you ideas on all of the things that you can either start from seed or transplant right now January is a critical month of planning and starting your Spring Garden for those of you with last average spring Frost dates in January February

Or March if that’s you it’s time to start sewing seeds because some of these crops which I will list out in this video take about 2 to 3 months to be ready for transplanting so if you want the earliest start on your Spring Garden which also means more time for plants to

Produce and for you to harvest then you need to get started right now if you’re new here hello and welcome my name is Jara and I teach people how to garden and grow food this video is one of many gardening guides that can be found on my

Channel where I share my knowledge about growing food and other edible plants so make sure you subscribe to my channel if you want to develop your gardening skills now I know planting things in January might seem crazy to you but it’s only crazy if you’re in a Northern State

With temperate climates and actual Seasons gardeners in the South portions of the United States have very mild Winters with barely any spring it just goes from warm to hot I am starting this Garden guide with the crops that can be planted Outdoors right now and then we

Will get into all of the things that should be started indoors primarily your warm weather crops because it’s too cold to grow them outside I know some of you can’t start seeds indoors so I’ll provide a few ideas on how to keep seedlings warm while growing them

Outside lastly I end this guide with important Garden tasks tips and reminders for the month of January let’s start with all the things that can be planted outside or direct sewed right now in the month of January and this is more applicable to Garden zones 8 and up

January is basically the last chance to hurry up and plant things in the alium family like onions and leaks it is too late to just get started with sewing onions and leaks from seed so use transplants instead this year I started all of my onions and leaks from seed way

Back in August because they take a solid two to three months to be ready I started planting them into the Garden in October and November that’s my ideal Target date but you still have time to plant some in December and January the number one tip I can give about growing

Onions is to make sure you select the correct day length cultivar for your area onions are labeled as short day long day and intermediate day Google short day onion maps to look at a color-coded map of the United States and figure out what kind you should be

Growing in your area if you’re located in the southern parts of the United States zones Aiden up you’re probably going to have to grow short day onion cultivars like me unlike onions and leaks chives can be started from seed right now just direct sew them around the garden if you need step-by-step

Directions on planting and growing onions check out my onion growing guide which I will link in the description below by the way I probably have a dedicated growing guide on the majority of the crops I’m mentioning in this video my grow guides are basically everything you need to know about

Growing a particular plant or crop from selecting the best cultivar for your garden when to plant it and how to take care of the plant so you have a nice Harvest if one exists I will link it below in the description so you can easily find it next up we have potatoes

Garden zones 8 and 10 can still plant some seed potatoes I’m Zone 10A and I find that when I plant them in February or or Beyond it’s just too late the heat arrives early and the potato plants really struggle it causes them to die back earlier than I would like which

Means you have to harvest them before the tubers really bulk up and get big in size this time I planted mine in November that way they have several months in a row of cooler weather to grow properly so that is why I say January is the last chance to plant some

Zone eight people can continue planting into February 2 potatoes are very susceptible to pests and diseases so I recommend early maturing cultivars grow them early and harvest them out fast I like to grow mine and grow bags because it’s just easier for me to control the

Vines and then I just kick the bag over at Harvest Time take advantage of the cooler weather to plant lots of greens like all of these right here I’ll just list them out for you a couple weeks ago I had empty bear space in here so then I

Just took a bunch of blood meal sprinkled it all over the soil and gently raked it in with a little hand rake blood meal is by far the best fertilizer for anything that you’re growing to eat its leafy greens it just promotes lots of lush leafy green growth

And intense color I say it all the time when I tell you guys to plant some greens make sure you use some blood meal if you’re transplanting Your Greens then add some blood meal into the planting hole but seriously the easiest thing to do is just to direct those seeds for

Them this is a bunch of lettuce right here this is bronze munette and I kind of sprinkled the seeds densely in here but man are they just growing wonderfully and personally I really like the loose leaf kind of Lett uses because then you don’t need to harvest the whole

Thing when it starts producing a head like maybe a butter head or Roma something like that you just Harvest individual leaves as needed that means I kind of get a lot more Harvest out of them so if you’re doing that it’s okay to kind of plant them really densely I

Scattered a whole bunch of seeds I did not thin them out nothing they’re growing kind of crowded but that’s totally okay that addition of blood meal is all that they need to get them through the growing season and speaking of greens the next set of crops that I

Recommend for you to start planting right now in January are herbs all sorts of herbs here’s a whole bunch of ideas for you I plant these every year and I almost can grow them year around here in Florida what really kills off the majority of my crops and the herbs is

Actually the summer heat not the cold it’s like the opposite of everyone else and a state north of us I start planting up as many herbs as I possibly can in fall winter and spring once it starts getting too hot they just really start declining but what helps is planting

Your herbs in containers or grow bags something like that so that if it does get too hot you can kind of move them into a spot that gets some afternoon shade and that will really give those plants a little bit of relief from the heat by doing that have extended the

Life of tons of my herbs and actually the majority of herbs are perennial as long as the plants are healthy and survive in your garden don’t get killed off by the Heat or the cold or some kind of pest or disease and lastly a lot of these herbs are actually host plants for

Various types of butterfly caterpillars so please plant extra herbs way more than what you think you need for your own personal use in the kitchen so that way it’s okay to sacrifice a few of them to the butterfly caterpillars speaking about butterflies it’s also a really

Great idea if you get started on the flowers that you want to grow for this next season it is still a little bit too cold outside to just direct so seeds for flowers because even me here in Orlando Florida Zone 10A I’m still expecting at least one maybe two cold fronts that

Will drop between the 40s maybe even low 30s and that will definitely kill off any kind of flower seedlings you may have growing instead I like to get these 72 cell seed trays and I just start sewing seeds for rows and rows of all sorts of different flowers that are

Beneficial for the butterflies and other pollinators some of my favorites is actually these no DS right here these flowers are really beautiful and they’re edible they attract tons of beneficial insects to your garden they have a delicious peppery flavor kind of reminiscent of mustard greens or Rigo I

Also really love to grow sunflowers zenas and Tonia which is this orange flower right here all of those flowers attract so many butterflies and bees to my garden if you don’t want to be sewing tons of seeds for them and keeping them warm indoors and that sort of thing then

It’s totally okay to dxo seeds as soon as your last average spring frosted has passed all right so on to the next crop everyone and zones a and up can start direct sewing seeds for carrots I have better success with the heat tolerant varieties like corota or Cosmic purple

Daners is an old heirloom variety that always grows really well for me too if you want to harvest big carrots then they need full sun to harvest adequate energy to produce a big carrot root and loose soil on the Sandy side you can start harvesting at about 3 months but I

Find that they’re still too small for my liking so I like to wait until they’re about four or five months old pull one out around the four month Mark and check if it’s too small leave them in for another 3 to 4 weeks it is too late to

Start growing large heading types of rascas like broccoli cabbage and cauliflower they need a solid 3 months to get to transplant size from seed and then about another 2 to four months of growing time after being transplanted to be ready for Harvest so if you were to

Plant some right now they would be forming their heads during a time of hot weather if it’s too hot heading brasa’s bolt or start flowering instead of producing a nice large crown of broccoli you can eat the flowers but that’s not what you grow it for this is this is why

I’m drawing the line right now in January and say it’s too late for southern gardeners to plant some but we all can plant non-heading types of brasas or brasas grown to eat their leaves like these right here directo seeds spacing them about one foot apart you can also continue directo seeds for

Radish beets and turnips radish are a quick crop I succession sew more seeds about every four weeks or so radishes are said to be ready for Harvest in about 30 days realistically though it takes me an additional three to maybe four weeks on until they size up to

Where I like them I tell you that so you don’t worry if your radishes are still too small after 30 days just give them some more time they grow easily and small spaces grow bags or vertical Garden Towers like a greenstock garden tower all right guys the next crop I

Have for you are sweet potatoes This Is My Sweet Potato Patch I’m actually growing them in grow bags because again it’s just way easier to just throw the bag over at Harvest time I planted these like in June so they’ve been in here for like six months they are definitely

Ready for me to harvest before I decide to harvest everything I decided to take a bunch of cuting because it’s so much easier and quicker to make your own sweet potato slips from existing plants than to go to the grocery store get a tuber Sprout the tuber then you have to

Cut off each individual Sprout put them in water and root them to make your slips that whole process can take like three months if you want to grow sweet potatoes this spring and you have to start from a tuber you need to get started doing that whole process right

Now so the slips are ready for you in about 2 to 3 months since I already have existing plants and I took my little cuting like this I just get some old mason jars and stick them in some water they literally root in like two weeks so that’s drastically faster than starting

All the way from a tuber if you don’t have any existing plants already in your garden ask around ask some friends go on Facebook in Garden groups and ask if anyone has any that they’d be willing to share with you I am in process of shooting a sweet potato guide that will

Show you everything you need to know about growing sweet potatoes if you’re in the southern parts of the United States this is definitely a crop that you need to be growing every year and pretty much all sweet potato variety are ready for Harvest people say around 90

To maybe like 110 days but quite honestly I find when I dig those up they’re still kind of too small for my liking so I just leave them sometimes up to six months like these right here that way I can ensure that those tubers are nice and big and really worth the effort

Of digging them all out and curing them in that whole process but if you’re a cold climate Gardener and you literally might only have three months to grow sweet potatoes and it is what it is Harvest them out before your first winter frost these next set of crops I’m

About to mention is just for Zone eight gardeners to continue planting everyone else in zones 9 and above are just too late in my opinion Zone 8 stays cold much longer than zone 9 and up so they have some extra time to continue planting crops that enjoy cooler weather

Zone 8 gardeners hurry up and transplant strawberry bare Roots there are certain cultivars that are best for growing in the South so be very careful and do your research to make sure you’re purchasing the best kind for your garden I highly recommend that you purchase crowns from local or Native Nurseries that would

Carry the kind that grows well in your state do not grow them from seed because that takes a very long time and you will miss your last chance to plant some before the heat of spring or summer returns it’s the heat that kills off my strawberry plants at least for us

Southern gardeners not the cold I wish I had more time to plant this next crop but alas my chance has passed zate gardeners can direct so seeds for all sorts of peas I find that growing peas is totally worth it peas have a higher sugar content which makes them taste

Very sweet the sugar content quickly degrades once harvested so the ones you get at the grocery store have lost a lot of their Sugar by the time you buy and then eat them there is a huge difference when you grow them yourself and eat them fresh while all of their sugar content

Is still intact plus they are super easy to grow just directo seeds grow them up a trellis keep the soil moist and harvest in about 2 and 1/2 months the standard green pea is awesome I always have success with Oregon sugar pod 2 or green arrow but it’s super fun to grow

The more unique colored peas like golden sweet yellow snow peas or Royal snow which is almost most black in color just very striking being able to grow unique colors of my favorite veggies is part of what makes gardening fun for me I do have seeds on my website if you want to

Try growing these varieties too lastly I have some ideas for those of you that barely have a winter or some sort of a frost like those of you in South Florida Hawaii Puerto Rico or those of you with last spring Frost AES that fall right now in January you guys can start direct

Sewing seeds for all of these crops right here if you happen to get some cold fronts with temperatures below 50° f height you might have to cover tender seedlings or they can die I like to cut the bottom off from some milk jugs and flip them over on my small seedlings to

Create a little mini Greenhouse or you can flip cardboard boxes over them and secure them with some long landscape hooks okay so that’s all of the things that you can start from seed or transplant right now let’s discuss spring gardening because if your last spring Frost AE is in January February

Or March you need to start sewing seeds right now the majority of these things are warm seasoned crops and they do not like the cold so if it’s cold outside you will have to either sew them indoors or create a warm environment for them by sewing seeds in a greenhouse type of

Thing if you sew seeds for warm weather crops in Cold Soil they will have very poor germination and if they do manage to germinate they grow very slowly because they need warmth to take off also as soon as something germinates it needs a bright light source to help them

Grow I often find that a sunny window is just not enough especially for light hungry plants like peppers and tomatoes to be successful sewing seeds right now you need one warmth and two very bright light there are a few more things that help seedlings germinate and grow

Quickly but I would say warmth and light are probably the most important there are so many ways that you can create a warm and bright light type of environment I use heat mats to keep the soil and plants warm and then I use 5,000k or higher shop lights or grow

Lights to provide a lot of light I used to sew seeds indoors but now I’m sewing them outdoors in mini greenh houses that I get from Amazon or I just cover my outdoor shelving units with plastic like wrap the whole unit I place a few heat mats inside and just close the whole

Thing up it keeps all of my plants and seedlings nice and warm even on the coldest winter nights I will link in the description below to all of these supplies and I’ll also link to my how to sew seeds guide it shows you my whole

Setup and tips on how to get good seed germination from the perspective of a professional seed implant Nursery so take these expert tips and apply them at home okay so back to the things that need to be sewed indoors this month first up we have peppers and eggplants

Which take about 3 months to be ready for transplant they take forever so try to use heat mats and bright light sources to help them grow faster also fertilize with a liquid fertilizer at half the strength to get them up to size once the first set of true leaves

Appears next up we have my favorite crop which is tomatoes they take around 2 months to be ready for transplanting from seed they grow much faster than peppers and eggplants but they do require warm soil bright light and fertilizer to grow to their best I start transplanting my spring tomato crop

Towards the end of January I expect another one maybe two cold fronts when that happens I cover the seedlings with old sheets plastic containers milk jugs Etc and then they’re just fine if you’re not able to protect cold sensitive tomato seedlings then plant them after all danger of Frost has passed the goal

For me is to grow tomatoes early and quickly so I harvest it all out before June when summer heat and Rain prevent them from producing and basically kill off my tomato plants and Trust Me by this point I have harvested a ton of tomatoes this right here and behind me

Are my rows rows of my fall Tomatoes yes fall Tomatoes these were planted in September but since I’m in Florida these things grow really well during fall winter in Spring it just doesn’t really get cold enough to kill off a mature tomato plant it definitely can kill off

Little seedlings but these things will survive as long as some pest or disease don’t take them out all the way to June so that’s an extremely long growing period that’s like nine months in a row now they’re catching all sorts of diseases I really need to get caught up

With using my hydrogen peroxide spray that I love so so much and just fertilize them to put on new healthy green growth and some of you have been sending me emails or like tagging me in your pictures of the tomatoes that you’re growing in your garden from seeds

From my website and I have to say I am so impressed a lot of you have plants that look better than mine you’ve really taken my advice to heart and stayed on top of the spraying and just taking care of your plants and that’s just the coolest feeling to know that my advice

Is really helping some of you be successful in your Gardens now since we’re all planting our spring tomato crops I’m being asked a lot which ones do I recommend that are like the most heat tolerant and the best advice I can give you for any kind of Veggie crop is

That the darker colored versions of that vegetable tend to be more heat tolerant so like with tomatoes I mean the standard Red Tomato you know is okay but if you plant the purple or black cultivars for example Paul Robeson Japanese trifle Black Beauty they do seem to just last a little bit longer

Than the rest of the tomato cultivar in my garden once the heat starts coming but I’m in zone 10A it gets so hot eventually that not even the most heat tolerant tomato plant makes it in my garden I’m also being asked like in general what are some of my favorites

Production wise I primarily grow just heirloom tomatoes and I have tried growing hybrids that are said to be very productive and quite honestly I don’t find that much of a difference my heirlooms still produce really well if I had to just recommend three large beef steak air cultivars that are super

Productive I would say one Owen purple that’s actually a cross between Paul Robeson and another cultivar I forget what it is so if you’ve ever grown Paul Robeson before which is absolutely one of my favorites Owen’s purple is like that one on steroids the tomatoes are consistently more large and it just

Produces way more than Paul Robson I also recommend Tex Wine which is a nice beautiful red standard beef steak tomato just super super prolific and lastly I recommend Tri L crop also called the Italian tree tomato if you have the space because that one literally is a

Mini Tree by the end of my growing season those Vines get like 25 ft long I’ve seen people grow them up trees I personally grow mine up a 10ft tall teap poost and just kind of wrap it and tie it around that teape as the growing season progresses super productive and

It produces loads of red beef steak tomatoes and I do have seeds for all three of those on my website if you want to try growing them this season next up we have lofa MinGa and other edible gourds like snake beans or bitter melon these crops require a minimum of about 6

Months in a row of warm temperatures to grow and be ready for Harvest so it is very advantageous especially if you’re in a colder climate to start them from seed indoors to get a jump start on your growing season sew seeds indoors in large Solo cups 2 months before your

Last spring frost date and Transplant them as soon as all danger of Frost has passed these are tropical plants so they are very sensitive to the cold starting seeds for luffa and MinGa can be a little bit tricky because they have a hard shell growing them in warm soil and

High humidity is key to speed up the germination process if your last spring Frost dat is in January you can direct SE seeds for corn or beans right now if not let’s say it lands in February like me or in March then you can get a head

Start by sewing seeds indoors Yes you heard me right you can sew seeds for corn and beans in containers it doesn’t always have to be direct sewn but the trick is to transplant them at the 3-we Mark no later than that or they will be rootbound and it will stunt their growth

Plan to sew seeds 3 weeks before your last spring Frost State I like to grow them in these 72 CC trades basically making my own plug at the 3we Mark I pop the plug out usually the root system is just developed enough that the soil doesn’t fall apart it stays together and

I don’t disturb the roots this is a great technique to get a 3-we head start on your corn and bean crops or if you have Critters digging out the seeds when you direct SEO them my last tip about growing corn specifically is that most likely you will get the corn ear worm

They are brown and they have two little black dots on their head that makes it look like little eyes they are very tough worms in Florida there is no such thing as a small worm infestation so if you get worms be prepared have some spin aad in stock at home I would say

Battling the corn earworm is the most common issue that other gardeners report back to me when trying to grow sweet corn other types of corn like dent and field corn are not as susceptible to the worms like sweet corn varieties in general okay let’s discuss the last set

Of crops that need to be started from seeds indoors if you want to get a head start on your spring and summer season things like these crops right here now let me just say I grow my spring and summer crops together in Spring and then in April and May I start planting the

Super tropical extra heat tolerant crops that will produce for me through summer summer is jungle gardening for me here in Florida I have much more success gring traditional summer or warm weather crops like melons tomatoes peppers and cucumbers in the spring while temperatures pests and disease pressure

Is down here are a bunch of things I grow during my summer just to give you guys some ideas and foresight into what to plant at the end end of spring and early summer the good thing is that most of these crops tend to be very high-

Producing and aren’t too needy like your traditional veggie crops I also rely heavily on perennial Edibles in tropical fruits like pineapples mangoes Barbados cherry and muscadine grapes that produce during the summer and super heat tolerant versions of our favorite veggie crops like Thai lavender frog eggplant Everglades tomatoes and yard long beans

I will be making a best crops or heat tolerant substitutions to grow in hot climates during the summer video very soon so make sure you’re subscribed to my channel that way you get notified of when that video goes live all right hopefully that gave you a lot of ideas

For things you need to start growing in January I can’t stress enough to get an early start and plan your spring gardens right now to guarantee a huge Harvest lastly let’s discuss important Garden tasks and reminders for the month of January be ready to cover plants when

Cold fronts arrive I just got some row cover hoops from Amazon to basically make a long covered garden bed to protect my tomato seedlings that I’m planting at the end of January I also got got a few zip up fruit tree Frost bags to protect some of my most tropical

Fruit trees or my carry mango tree which is flowering right now it’s a little early than what I would like which is bad because if we get temperatures below 40° f it damages the flowers and then no mangoes form to prevent cold damage on my mango tree and others I run an

Extension cord out hang a heat mat in the middle of the tree and zip the frost protection bag shut it keeps everything nice and toasty even on cold nights and I will link in the description below to these supplies if you want to find them if you’re concerned that cold weather

Will kill some of your favorite plants it’s a great idea to take cuings propagate them indoors during the winter and then plant them back outside in Spring I especially love to take new cuting for all of my herbs and tomato plants for example so I don’t have to

Start them all the way from seed again since it’s nice and cool outside it’s a good time to mulch the garden get caught up on garden projects weeding building new beds Etc right now I’m painting my chicken Coupe which by the way I’m planning a how to get started raising

Backyard chickens Series this spring so stay tuned January is also a great time to prune dormant Fring plants and trees that fruit on new wood this is super important if you don’t know which of your fruit trees and plants fruit on new wood do some research for example my

Muscadine grape Vines fruit on new wood or growth whatever new branches and Vines it grows this spring will flour and produce fruit that I harvest this summer so now is a great time to prune these plants to stimulate lots of new healthy green growth in Spring also if

You’re growing asparagus in warm winter climates and yes you can grow asparagus even in Florida you have to cut down the entire plant all of the stems down to the ground this triggers asparagus plants to start sending up new shoots in the spring which is the part you harvest

And eat so prune Mulch and fertilize your asparagus plants it’s also a great time to spray fruit trees with Horticulture oil to smother out various diseases and pest so you have less incidents of them next year in Spring when all of these things get active again for example if you get Leaf miners

On your plants horticultural oil will smother them out so you have less of them next year it’s too hot during most of the Year for me here in Florida to spray with anything oilbased including neem oil because it can and has burned my plants so I wait for fall and winter

To apply oilbased treatments lastly I wanted to make you aware of my upcoming live Garden classes that I do right here on YouTube mark your calendars because on Sunday January 21st I will be teaching about planting heirloom tomatoes and on Sunday February 25th I will be teaching about raising backyard

Chickens with a tour of my Coupe and setup these live Garden classes are a lot of fun I really enjoy talking to you guys and answering your questions in real time make sure you subscribe to my channel that way you get notified of when I go live for those classes you can

Find a copy of this January guide like in text format in the monthly Gardening Guide section on my website so that you can save print copy or share it or if you prefer you can join my email group there’s a link Down Below in the description and I’ll send it to you

Automatically at the start of each month it’s also how I send the schedule of my upcoming live Garden classes well I hope you like this list I put together for January and it inspires you all to get an early start on your Spring Gardens if I missed any seed or plant ideas feel

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