It’s Time to Start Your Garden! 9 Seeds to Plant Indoors in January

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Today I have 9 seeds for you that you need to plant indoors in January. Get these seeds started now so that they are ready to put out in your garden in March and early April.

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Here’s the written List:
Onions
Leeks
Chives
Lettuce
Spinach
Parsley
Kale
Swiss Chard
Tatsoi
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:10 Onions, Leeks, Chives
3:40 Lettuce, Spinach, Parsley
5:02 Kale, Swiss Chard, Tatsoi
6:45 Planting Kale Seeds
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Hey guys Rick Stone here from Stony Acres gardening welcome to my channel it’s January and it’s time to actually get some seeds planted indoors but it’s time to to get some things going and so I’m always excited when January rolls around because that’s the beginning of my gardening season so we’re going to

Talk today about nine seeds that you can be planting indoors in your indoor seed starting setup uh in the month of January this video is intended for those of you that live in zones 5 six and seven but more important than your garden zone is your frost date I really

Don’t care that much about your garden zone I do care about when your Frost dates are so this video is intended for those of you that have a frost date last frost date in the spring from April 1st to about May 15th that 6 week time frame

If that’s when your frost date is you need to start thinking about getting some seeds planted during the month of January now for those of you that don’t want to watch the whole video I know there’s some of you that are like that there is a written list in the

Description of this video that you can go see what I’m going to be talking about in this video so I have taken the nine crops and broken them into three different segments for these first three all of which are in the onion family you absolutely need to get these guys

Planted as soon as you can in January based on when that frost date is so the first one on the list is onions now onions seedlings for onions need to go out in your garden somewhere between 4 to 6 weeks before your last frost date so for example my last frost usually

Lands somewhere between May 7th and May 15th which means I need to be getting my onion transplants in the garden somewhere between about the 25th of March to the 1st of April so I usually kind of Target that April first time frame so if I want transplants out in

The garden at that time I need to be starting those seedlings about 8 to 10 weeks before Plant out time which lands me solidly at the beginning of January so I need to be starting my onion seeds indoors at the beginning of January if I want transplants that are in good enough

Shape to go out in the garden right around April 1st so that’s kind of our Target now with leaks which are also part of the onion family you’ve got a little bit more flexibility leaks really only need to go out about 3 weeks before your first frost date so same idea you

Want about 8 weeks or so before you plant them out in order to to make that all happen that timing wise so usually with leaks we can we can wait just a little bit later in January so for me I’m going to be planting my leaks somewhere around about the 21st of

January that will give them eight weeks and then they can go out uh sometime in mid April the other one that that is in the onion family is an herb and that is chives so chives are a perennial so it’s nice once you get them established you

Really don’t have to reant them year after year but if you’re going to start some chives this year the seeds take a good long time to get growing and get established they’re long germinators they take a while to germinate and so you want to get those guys started about

8 to 10 weeks before you plant them out in the garden and you want to be planting those about 4 weeks before your last frost in the spring so onions leaks and chives absolutely have to be started in January if your Frost dates land in that April and May time frame so make

Sure you get those guys started indoors that’s your first priority the next group of seeds that we’re going to talk about are probably the most sensitive of the seedlings that we’re going to talk about so when I say sensitive meaning that they’re they’re they’re going to be a little bit more Frost sensitive

They’re going to be a little bit more cold sensitive and so if you’re going to plant these in January they’re going to be ready to go out sometime in March and you’re probably going to need a little protection for them so the plants that we’re talking about here are lettuce

Spinach and parsley lettuce being the most tender of those three all of them are going to appreciate some protection in March so if you’re going to plant some of these indoors in January and you want to set them out 8 weeks later in March you’re going to want to protect

Them with a fabric roll cover maybe a hoop house or even a Cold Frame any of those are going to give them the protection that they need for that month or so of still relatively severe weather you know from mid-march to Mid April things will start to kind of moderate

Once we hit April and you’ll be okay but with lettuce and parsley and spinach you want to go probably mid January for most of us is when we want to actually get those planted and then you do need to plan on having some protection for those

Because those are not as hard as some of the other plants that we’re talking about now the last on the list are probably the most hearty of the Leafy grains that are available for us to plant this time of year and that is kale Swiss chard and then a Chinese green

Called totso so kale and swiss chard both very hearty you probably could start some seeds indoors in January and put them out in March and and they would probably be okay I don’t particularly advise that I would still like you to give them some protection a fabric row cover at the

Very minimum or maybe a hoop house over the top of them that is going to help them to grow faster and be stronger um but both of those are very Hardy and you probably could get away with planting them directly in the garden in March assuming the weather has allowed for

That the other tot soy is an Asian green that is it it tastes very similar to bok choy so it and and it looks the the leaf itself looks very similar to Bach Choy but it grows differently it’s more of a rosette it looks more like spinach uh

When when you when you look at it the plants look a little bit more like spinach again a very hearty plant a really good one to plant early in the spring like this it will appreciate the protection of a hoop house a cold frame or some fabric row cover but definitely

You can get those planted again I Target with kale and with uh tots soy and swiss chard I try to get those started about mid January so that I can put the first planning of those out in mid-march now if you are if your timing is such that

You are starting some of these greens in early January there isn’t any reason why you couldn’t put a second planting in in late January as well so that you have some succession so for example today I’m going to plant for you guys some kale but I’m only going to start for

Kale plants right now because I don’t want a ton of kale number one you don’t want a ton of kale they’re pretty productive anyways but I also don’t want a whole bunch of of kale that comes ready to harvest at the same time so I’m going to start four plants now I’ll

Probably start four more plants in another three or four weeks okay so why don’t we go through and I’ll actually do a little planning demonstration for you here so I have some VAP scale seeds and these are actually seeds that I saved myself uh and they’re about 2 or 3 years

Old and I’ve got some containers here when you’re starting your own seed Lings the very first thing that you need to do is you need to pre moisten the soil we want that soil to be moist before we put in the in the container anything that’s

Either cocoa core or Pete Moss based is a little bit what we call hydrophobic so it tends when it’s kind of in packed into a container it tends to actually repel water and so we before we put it in a container we want to make sure that

We get it evenly moist and so you’re going to put some water in stir it around and get that moisture even throughout the the the soil then if you want to you can actually add a little bit of your own homemade compost make sure you sift it first we want it to be

Pretty fine because we’re using a Seedling mix here not a potting soil we want to be using a Seedling mix as the base and so we don’t want to by adding compost we don’t want to add a bunch of rough material so make sure you sift

That so we have some nice fine material that these seedlings can grow in then you want to put them in the containers make sure that your containers are clean I always like to clean my containers out at the first of the Season that makes sure that we don’t have any disease or

Pest problems in them and we’re going to put those in we want to Tamp it down but we don’t want to press it in we don’t want to pack it in really tight and make sure you leave a little bit of room at the top of the containers and then is

What I’m going to do is I’m going to put two seeds in each of these containers one primary one backup just in case we have a German mintion problem so we’ll put two in each of these and those are planted and then we’re going to take just a little bit of

Our pre moistened seedling mix and all we need is about a qu of an inch so we don’t have to put a lot on there we’re going to cover those guys up and then we’re going to spread that out just like that pretty easy and then is what we

Want to do is give it a squirt so we want to make sure that that upper layer of soil that we just put on is really moist and ready for those seedlings to germinate so we’ll put that on and then we’re going to cover these guys up and I

Like to use a little plastic wrap now before everybody goes crazy on me about using plastic wrap I reuse this so this gets used for I mean this one here I’ve been using for five plus years so we’re going to cover that up the reason why

We’re going to use plastic crap is that will help to keep the moisture in so we want to keep that moisture especially on the top layer of the soil soil nice and high until those seedlings germinate and then once a day maybe twice a day depending on what your indoor conditions

Are like we’re going to come in and just give those another squirt and then we’re going to put these guys indoors where it’s warm under our lights we don’t need to turn the lights on for a couple of days but before the seedlings start to germinate you want to turn your lights

On then once they’ve germinated uh you’ll pull this plastic off and we are off and running should be ready to get those transplanted out in the garden about 6 days eight weeks later all right so there you go that is the nine seeds that you should be planting in January

With a little bit of a demonstration for you as well I do want to just mention really quick before I go that we have our seed starting Workshop happening again this year so I’m super excited about this this is our biggest event of the Year people love it last year we had

Almost 300 people that joined us with this seed starting workshop and we are going to be doing it again this year so the date this year for 2024 is February 12th so that will be the date that we start the workshop it is a paid Workshop it’s very inexpensive it’s only $29 it’s

An 8-day Workshop I have S days where I give you some instruction so we do about a half an hour’s worth of instruction on seed starting every day for seven days little bit-sized pieces for you to learn a little bit more about seed starting all of those videos are pre-recorded so

This isn’t a live event you’ll be able to watch those videos anytime during the day and in fact I leave them available for you to replay them for about 6 months afterwards and so you’ll be able to watch this anytime you want uh those seven days will have good instruction

For you there’s a workbook that goes along with it that you can print and then on day eight we actually do a live Q&A session so I’ll get on some Zoom calls and you guys can come in and ask me any questions that you have related

To seed starting we’ll give away a few prizes at that time as well so this is a really fun event and again we are starting on February 12th 2024 and the cost is $29 now as so what I want to ask you to do right now is go sign up for

The wait list getting names on the weit list gives me an idea of how many people we’re going to have for the event and so if you could get signed up for that weight list that is really beneficial for me so that I can make my plans have

The right number of Staff in place the right number of prizes to give away and things like that so there is a link down in the description of this video or if I did things right you should have a link right up here as well that you can click

On uh to go sign up for that weight list I just need your name and your email address I’ll send you a few emails ahead of time so that you guys kind of know what we’re doing and can be ready for that event that again starts on February

12th so get signed up for the wait list right away for our seed starting Workshop all right my friends that’s all I have for you for this week get some seeds started it’s time I’m excited for another gardening season I’ve had my month off and now it’s time to uh to get

Going again so get some seedling started and uh let’s get going on garding again this year all right that’s all I have for you for this week everybody have a fantastic week happy gardening