March is a busy time for gardeners who start their own seedlings. There are so many seedlings you should be planting this month, from cool-season crops to warm-season crops, and even flowers.
This video is designed for those of you who have a last frost date between April 15th and May 15th.
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0:00 Introduction
1:55 Cool Season Crops
3:35 Warm Season Crops
5:38 Flowers
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Gardners Almanac:
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Hey guys Rick Stone here from Stony Acres gardening welcome to my Channel today we are going to be talking about what we can be planting indoors during the month of March so it’s March 1st when I’m filming this video it’s coming in like a lion uh this year we’ve got a
Horrendous wind storm happening right now which is why we’re inside instead of outside in the garden and we’re going to have rain and snow all weekend long so it’s still march and it’s still psycho weather but there are a ton of things that you need to be doing to prep for
Your Spring Garden during the month of March when it comes to planting seedlings indoors in fact you’re almost getting a little bit too late on some things so we’re going to kind of go through what you can still be planting what you should be planting uh during
The month of March so that they’re ready to go out at the appropriate times in your garden that’s what we’re going to cover today now this video is designed for those of you who have a last frost date that lands somewhere between April 15th and May 15th generally that means you’re
Probably going to land in zones 5 six or seven but I really don’t care what your garden zone is the most important thing when it comes to planting seedlings indoors is your frost date and so if you don’t know what your average last frost AE is look it up there’s a couple of
Links down in the description of this video that you can go follow to check and and look it up there they’re going to give you different dates you kind of have to do some research and and study a a little bit on your area and figure out
What that average last frost dat is because that’s the important thing garden zone really doesn’t have anything to do with when we’re going to be planting our seedlings instead it’s that last frost state in the spring that we are really concerned about so again this
Video is for April 15th to May 15th in that range this is what we’re going to be planting and there’s a lot of stuff you can see I already have some seedlings going these are my cool season crops so I’ve got some some broccoli I’ve got cabbage I’ve got cauliflower
We’ve got some napa cabbage some Swiss chart I even have a couple of tomatoes in here as well um but this is basically all cool season crops that I started a couple of weeks ago so these are two weeks old it’s time to start thinning them out deciding which ones are going
To be the best and uh they’re ready to plant then they’ll be ready to plant in about four weeks but it’s not too late for a lot of you we we target planting cool season crops like these anywhere between about 4 weeks before your last frost date right up until your last
Frost date so you still have time to get these guys going if you haven’t already started them so what crops cool season crops can we be starting things like broccoli cabbage col Robbie cauliflower kale collards arugula spinach lettuce Swiss chard celery and even peas all of those you can still be starting indoors
Again targeting to get them out hopefully a little bit before your last frost date maybe even as much as four weeks before your last frost date and um you know so so if you can get some six we week old transplants ready they’ll be great to go so all of those cool season
Crops you can still be starting but you really need to get after it right away so you should be starting these early in the month of March in order for you to have trans plants that are ready to go out in the garden on time so hurry with
Those okay now warm season crops are also going to be planted indoors during March and you’ve got a little bit more time on those but it is getting close to time with a lot of those as well especially for those of you whose last frost date is in um you know mid April
Uh you you really need to get hustling so with warm season crops here I’m talking about things like tomatoes Peppers eggplant Tomos maybe even some beans those you want to Target about eight weeks before your last frost date so for example my last frost date is
About May 15th I want to be planting indoors about March 15th so that I have them ready to go out in the garden now one thing that I want to give you a little bit of a warning on is your Squash Family plants so here we’re talking about summer squash winter
Squash cucumbers and then all of your melons those don’t need as much time indoors you really only want to start those about four weeks before you intend to plant them out so for me if I were going to plant some seedlings indoors for any of the Squash Family my last
Frost date May 15th I wouldn’t even think about starting until about April 15th but if your last frost date is April 15th and you want to be starting some of those crops indoors then you certainly could be starting them during the month of March probably around March
15th uh so that they’re only about a month old when they go out why do we do that because Squash Family plants do not like to be transplanted and bigger the bigger the plant the more transplant shock they will have and so you actually just want nice small maybe three four five leaves
At the most on those plant PLS you don’t want really big plants to be transplanted out so we only go about a month ahead of time with the the Squash Family plants so just keep that in mind now the other thing that you need to really get busy with is your
Flowers and I’m not going to give you the full list because there are literally hundreds of different varieties of flowers that are warm season meaning they’re Frost sensitive that you could be planting during the month of March Most flowers like at least 8 weeks a lot lot of them more
Like 10 or 12 weeks before you get them Planet out and so it’s time early in March for all of us to get those flowers started so let me give you just a few examples things like patunas marigolds zenas Cosmos impatience Morning Glory nostrum sunflowers all of those and then
Hundreds of other varieties of flowers that are grown from seed and are annuals you will want to get started started as quickly as you can in March because they’re going to need that time so for me I’m starting all of those types of flowers about March 1st this weekend is
When it’s it’s going to be happening for me so all of those warm season flowers it’s time to get them in so you can see that there is a ton of fun stuff for us to be doing in the garden or at least indoors for the garden uh during the
Month of March just just a whole bunch of indoor seeds starting for you to do now what about outside I’m I’m actually going to do a separate video on what we could be planting outside during the month of March because there are things that can go out in the garden uh outside
Directly sewn during the month of March I’ll get that video up sometime next week so watch for that and we’ll talk about what we can plant outside as well now before we go if you would like to learn a little bit more about seed starting I have a really easy way for
You to gain some more knowledge about how to start your seeds indoors and that is with my free ebook so we have a 20 plus page free ebook that you can download from our website that teaches you a ton more about how to grow your own seedlings uh it’s a a great little
Book we’ve had thousands of people download it and enjoy it and I would love to have you do it as well so there’s a link down in the description of this video that you can click on or you can click on this link right up here if I did everything right uh there
Should be a link right there that you can click on to go sign up for that free ebook all I need is your email and your name and you can get access to that free ebook so it’s a a good little resource to kind of give you the basics on how to
Get started growing your own seedling so I’d love to have you join that as well okay that my friends is all I have for you for this week we’ll get to some outdoor planting next week uh but just a ton of stuff to do in March for those of
Us that have that last frost date in in April or May just get going this is an exciting and fun time to be Gardener all right thanks guys have a great week happy gardening
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My average last frost date is end of March to first week of April. Zone 5
You nailed it on the weather 😂 I'm in zone 7b, last frost date between April 15- 21st ( I've seen it both ways) I'm so ready and excited to start the garden again. For once, I'm on time with seed starting. I always look forward to your videos . I hope we all have a great growing year.
I’m glad you posted this. I was getting nervous about getting my cooler weather crops started, especially peas. Thanks.
Thank you!!!! Blessings abound!
Zones are for the hardiness of your plants with extreme temperatures
Nice show, Rick
What would you do for the soil in March?
Is it ok to use the cedar shavings and chicken droppings in a combost bin? (Sparingly of course.) Or work it into the ground before planting?
Thank you for sharing. New subscriber to your channel.
Hello Rick! Is there another way I can communicate with you regarding a potential issue (not related to this video) that I am having with my seedlings. Tried to contact you through your website but there was no link and no form to fill out as stated.
I forgot to mention that I’m new to this gardening thing. Took your course “Indoor Seed Starting” offered through School of Traditional Skills. Followed everything to a “T” but now have what looks to be like dampening off (mold) on one of my seedling trays. Live in Arkansas where we get a lot of rain and humidity. Sprinkled cinnamon and vermiculite as suggested along with adding a fan. Have pics I would like to share. Is this possible?
I’m zone 6b and looked up my last frost date. 😬 I need to plant me seeds like yesterday 😂. My last frost date is May 3rd.