Q&A: What crops have I NEVER planted from seed indoors?
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
4.7 • 830 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today I am sharing with you the 5 seeds I have never started indoors.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday. Are there some things that you have never done as a gardener? |
| 0:06.0 | If you're a new gardener, there's probably a lot of things you've never done. |
| 0:10.0 | But after eight years of gardening, there are some things that I can honestly say that I have never done. |
| 0:17.0 | One of those things is planting certain crops from seed indoors. I have been seed starting indoors |
| 0:24.1 | from my very first season, but there are some that I looked and I'm like, I don't think I've |
| 0:29.1 | ever started these indoors. So I'm going to share with you today five seeds that I have never |
| 0:34.9 | started indoors because I get people asking these questions or they might say |
| 0:39.5 | that they're planning on starting some of these indoors and I try to discourage them not to. |
| 0:43.6 | So I'm going to go over real quick what those five are and briefly why I have never started them |
| 0:48.7 | indoors. Number one, corn. From what I hear, corn does not love to be transplanted, but that's really not the |
| 0:57.0 | reason I don't start corn indoors. The main reason is because you need a lot of corn to make a good |
| 1:03.6 | harvest. I think the smallest amount of space I devoted for corn was a four by eight raised bed. |
| 1:09.2 | They still didn't properly pollinate, so I really think |
| 1:11.7 | you even need more than that. So if you're talking about at least 32 plants, if not more, |
| 1:17.1 | that is a lot of indoor grow space, especially if you don't have a lot of indoor growth space. |
| 1:22.6 | To me, corn planted at the proper time is just super easy to plant in the garden. It's just not worth |
| 1:28.1 | messing with trying to start them indoors. Number two, black eyed peas. Really the same reason as |
| 1:34.7 | corn. You need a lot of black eyed peas to be able to make a good harvest. I chuckled because someone |
| 1:41.2 | on Instagram messaged me on New Year's Day that she was able to make black |
| 1:46.6 | eyed peas for New Year's. That was the whole reason she grew them last year. But she learned the |
| 1:51.4 | hard way that you need a lot of black eyed peas to make a good harvest and that was all that |
| 1:55.7 | she had gotten from her planting. Truly, you have to do a lot to be able to get enough to make it worth your while. |
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