Q&A: What if I'm behind in planting? (or lost crops already?)
The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy
Jill McSheehy
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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What can you do if you feel like you're already behind? Every climate will be different but I have some thoughts and considerations if you think you're already behind. Whether you want to try transplants or you're now able to direct sow, I'll give you some things to think about.
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| 0:00.0 | What can you do in your garden if you feel like you're already behind? This is a question that |
| 0:06.6 | Stephanie emailed me about, but I've also been getting questions from others who feel behind |
| 0:12.8 | because they've had a cold snap and it's killed some of their crops. And I am so sorry if that |
| 0:19.8 | happened to you. I was very close. It didn't happen to me, although with covering some of my crops and I am so sorry if that happened to you. I was very close. It didn't happen to me, |
| 0:22.9 | although with covering some of my crops and some of these late cold spells, I lost a couple of |
| 0:27.8 | them that way. So one way or the other, you might be feeling a little bit behind this year. |
| 0:34.9 | Now, there's no way that I can specifically answer this question for every |
| 0:39.0 | climate because everyone is going to be different. But what I want to do is just give you some |
| 0:43.4 | common suggestions and some considerations when it comes to certain plants. So let's start with |
| 0:50.9 | tomatoes. Let's say that your tomatoes died in a cold snap or you just didn't get them |
| 0:56.9 | started in time. What can you do? Well, if you can buy transplants at the garden center, |
| 1:03.0 | that would probably be the easiest thing to do. Even if you started some from seed and you |
| 1:07.8 | would rather do them from seed, getting them from your garden center is the quickest way |
| 1:12.8 | to be able to get that harvest. But if you do want to start them from seed, you can still start them |
| 1:18.4 | indoors again or you could directly sew your tomato seeds in the garden. I've already had volunteer |
| 1:25.4 | tomato seeds from last year come up so as long as the soil |
| 1:28.6 | temperature is good you can still do that. The same is true with peppers although |
| 1:34.0 | they'll take a little bit longer peppers I would really recommend trying to find |
| 1:38.9 | them at the garden center if you can just because they take longer to start from |
| 1:42.1 | seed. Now with both tomatoes and peppers a lot of this again depends on your climate if you can just because they take longer to start from seed. Now with both tomatoes and peppers, |
| 1:45.1 | a lot of this again depends on your climate. |
| 1:47.9 | If you have a really long growing season, |
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